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Zsa Zsa Gabor and Frederic Prinz von Anhalt Marriage Profile

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Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frederick von Anhalt

Zsa Zsa Gabor and Prince Frederick von Anhalt in the mid 1980s.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor has had nine husbands. Most of her marriages were quite brief and a few occurred after knowing her future husbands for only a few weeks. One of her marriages only lasted one day.

Here is information about Zsa Zsa's latest and longest marriage to Frederic Prinz von Anhalt and about her previous marriages.

News Updates:

3/20/2012: Zsa Zsa Gabor's daughter, Francesca Hilton, requested that a conservator be appointed for her mother. The hearing will be on May 2, 2012.
"Hilton contends that Gabor's ninth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, is keeping her 'increasingly isolated' and 'heavily sedated,' and she questions his handling of Gabor's finances."
Source: Alan Duke. "Judge asked to intervene in Zsa Zsa Gabor's care." CNN.com. 3/20/2012.

8/15/11: Frederic threw a controversial 25th wedding anniversary party for Zsa Zsa, but she could only watch it on video.

5/19/11: Zsa Zsa Gabor is reportedly in a coma and not responding to treatment.

1/14/11: In order to save her life, doctors amputated Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg.

2/9/07: Frederic claimed that he may be the father of Dannielynn. He says he first met Anna Nicole Smith in the 1990s at the Plaza Hotel in New York while she was married to Marshall. He claims that their nine-year affair began after Marshall's death.

Born:

Zsa Zsa Gabor: February 6, 1917 in Budapest, Hungary. Her birth name is Sári aka Shari Gábor.

Although her marriage to von Anhalt gave her the title Princess von Anhalt, Duchess of Saxony, she is not considered royalty.

Frederic Prinz von Anhalt: Abt. 1943 in Germany. His birth name is Hans Robert Lichtenberg.

In 1980 he reportedly bought his title of "Prince Frederic of Anhalt" by paying Marie Auguste Princess of Anhalt to adopt him.

Wedding Date and Information:

Zsa Zsa and Frederic were married in Los Angeles in the living room of her Bel Air home on August 14, 1986. They had an evening ceremony officiated by Captain John Gregory. Zsa Zsa wore a "lavender and white off-the-shoulder gown." Frederic was 43 years old and Zsa Zsa was 58 years old when they married.

There were 125 guests at their wedding including Paul Sorvino, Constance Towers, Michelle Phillips, and Red Buttons. Zsa Zsa's mother and sister Eva boycotted the wedding ceremony.

Zsa Zsa "chose the captain of the Queen Mary to perform her ninth wedding because only 30 of the 3,000 couples he has married are divorced ... Miss Gabor had said she was planning a Roman Catholic ceremony in a New York horse barn ... but it just didn't work out."
Source: Gettysburg Times. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 8-16-1986.

Children:

  • Constance Francesca Hilton: Born on March 10, 1947 in New York, New York. Her father is Conrad Hilton. Francesca is an actress.

Residence:

Zsa Zsa owned a villa with 47 rooms in Bel Air, California for many years.

Occupations:

Zsa Zsa: Actress.

Frederic: Trustee.

Autobiography

One Lifetime Is Not Enough (1991)
by Zsa Zsa Gabor with Wendy Leigh
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Quotes About Marriage by Zsa Zsa Gabor and Frederic Prinz von Anhalt:

Frederic about Zsa Zsa's response to his affair with Anna Nicole Smith, 2/15/07: "She loves me, I love her. She is mad, of course. But we have to go through that. I made a mistake, and she has to be on my side."
Source: SFGate.com. 2/15/2007.

Zsa Zsa: "A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished."
Source: Quotations.about.com.

Frederic von Anhalt: "I have everything; double of most things. All I do is push my wife around in a wheelchair and look after her. I am so terribly bored ... I wanted a Hollywood star; she wanted a prince. That was the deal. But when one lives with someone for 20 years ... I won't leave her alone ... Everything I have, I have through my wife. She pushed me so hard it made me sick; dragged me around meeting four US presidents, bought me everything that I wanted. Do you believe she didn't know the kind of man she was marrying? My wife parted from eight men. Why I am still there? Because I am not like her other men."
Source: TheScotsman.com.

Zsa Zsa: "I like being married -- as long as it is to the right man. I can't live alone."
Source: Zsa Zsa Gabor. One Lifetime is Not Enough. 1991. pg. 236.

Zsa Zsa when asked when a woman should get married: "When you are asked, of course."
Source: Vivian Brown. "Zsa Zsa Gabor Reveals Some Of Her Secrets; Not All." San Mateo Times. 12/25/1969.

Zsa Zsa about her affair with Porfirio Rubirosa, 1954: "Rubi loves me. Rubirosa in Spanish means red rose, for me it means black eye. A man only hits a woman if he loves her deeply."
Source: NNDB.com.

Zsa Zsa: "Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."
Source: Quotations.about.com.

Zsa Zsa: "A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it."
Source: Jimpoz.com.

Zsa Zsa Gabor's Previous Marriages

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