Personal Life
Gabor has been married nine times. She was divorced seven times, and one marriage was annulled. Her husbands, in chronological order, are:
- Burhan Asaf Belge (1937 – 1941; divorced)
- Conrad Hilton (10 April 1942 – 1947; divorced)
- George Sanders (2 April 1949 – 2 April 1954; divorced)
- Herbert Hutner (5 November 1962 – 3 March 1966; divorced)
- Joshua S. Cosden, Jr. (9 March 1966 – 18 October 1967; divorced)
- Jack Ryan (21 January 1975 – 24 August 1976; divorced)
- Michael O'Hara (27 August 1976 – 1983; divorced)
- Felipe de Alba (13 April 1983 – 14 April 1983; annulled)
- Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (14 August 1986 – present)
Gabor's high number of divorces inspired her to make numerous quotable puns and innuendos about her marital (and extramarital) history. She commented: "I am a marvelous housekeeper: Every time I leave a man I keep his house." When asked, "How many husbands have you had?", she was quoted as responding, "You mean other than my own?".
While Gabor was still married to Conrad Hilton, she once admitted to having sexual relations with her stepson Nicky, future husband of Elizabeth Taylor.
In 1974, she purchased a home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California which once belonged to Elvis Presley. In June 2011, it was announced that Gabor placed the house for sale. It was originally built by Howard Hughes and featured a unique-looking French style roof.
Gabor's only child, a daughter named Constance Francesca Hilton, was born on 10 March 1947. According to Gabor's 1991 autobiography One Lifetime Is Not Enough, her pregnancy resulted from rape by then-husband Conrad Hilton. She was the only Gabor sister to have a child. In 2005, a law suit was filed accusing her daughter of larceny and fraud, alleging that she had forged her signature to get a US$2 million loan on her mother's Bel Air house, and filed a lawsuit against Francesca in a California court. However, the Santa Monica Superior Court threw out the case because of Gabor's refusal to appear in court or to sign an affidavit that she indeed was a co-plaintiff on the original lawsuit filed by her husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt.
In May 2011, Frederic von Anhalt admitted on CNN with Alan Duke, that he had been limiting visits between Zsa Zsa and her daughter Francesca Hilton at Zsa Zsa's home. Hilton was banned from both the house and the hospital during Zsa Zsa's frequent visits to Reagan UCLA Medical Hospital. Hilton was given access to her mother for limited visits only after she conducted an interview with Alan Duke on CNN in May 2011 revealing the limits von Anhalt set on her for seeing her mother, and limiting medical and psychological evaluations.
In 2012, Francesca Hilton filed for Conservatorship in Los Angeles Superior Court so that the Court could investigate and rule on the visitation limits, and the lack of medical records and accountability of her mother's assets. On 11 July 2012 von Anhalt was ordered by the Court to become Conservator on a 6 month trial basis. Francesca Hilton won the loss of restrictions on seeing her mother, won monthly court ordered reports on her mother's medical and psychological care, asset records and an order that von Anhalt provide the Court with a $250,000 bond, a $100,000 checking account verification, and restrictions on refinancing Zsa Zsa Gabor's home.
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