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Zsa Zsa Gabor and Frederic Prinz von Anhalt Marriage Profile

By Sheri & Bob Stritof, About.com

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 and about her previous marriages.

News Updates:

2/9/07: Frederic is claiming 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 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:

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. She 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.

She "chose the captain of the Queen Mary to perform her eighth 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 has owned a villa with 47 rooms in Bel Air, California for many years.

Autobiographies

One Lifetime Is Not Enough
by Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Be My Guest
by Conrad N. Hilton
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Memoirs of a Professional Cad
by George Sanders

Quotes:

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

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

Zsa Zsa about Conrad Hilton: "Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles."
Source: TheScotsman.com

George Sanders: "Whereas I used to be pontificial on the subjec of women-hating, my marriage to Zsa Zsa has made me merely confused ... Marriage is a throwback to the Victorian age. I've always contended that the marriage license should be issued the same as a driver's license, subject to expiration and renewal."
source: Fitchburg Sentinel, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 7/22/1957.

Zsa Zsa during divorce proceedings from George Sanders: "[He] is a born bachelor who doesn't want to be married. Marriage makes him unhappy. He likes me but he doesn't want to be married ... George moved out of the house twice. He always had an apartment throughout the marriage, always kept in independently when he wished to see his friends there."
Source: Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, 4/01/1954.

Zsa Zsa about George Sanders: "If I ever marry again, it will be George. he's the only husband I ever really loved."
Source: Kerrville Times, Kerrville, Texas, 7/30/1957.

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 about meeting Herbert Hutner: "I saw him at a ball three weeks ago. He was dancing with another woman. I decided I would have to get him away from her. Of course, I did it immediately."
Source: Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1962.

Zsa Zsa about her divorce from Herbert Hutner: "We tried for three years, but we just couldn't work it out. He is a wonderful, wonderful man and we will always be the best of friends. We parted in the most friendly way. I gave him my Rolls-Royce and he gave me two strings of beautiful pearls."
Source: Independent, Long Beach, California, 3-1-1966.

Zsa Zsa about her love for Joshua Cosden: "I'm wildly in love with Joshua. He was a blind date in Dallas six weeks ago."
Source: Independent, Long Beach, California, March 5, 1966.

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

Zsa Zsa when she married Jack Ryan: "This is going to work. We are a like. He is Irish and I'm Hungarian -- both nuts."
Source: Fresno Bee, Fresno, California, 8/25/1976.

Zsa Zsa giving her reason to not have a second wedding ceremony with Felipe: "He bored me. He's a playboy and I'm a hard working actress."
Source: The Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, 4/24/1982.

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

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