A museum dedicated to Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor, originally from Hungary and who died in 2016 at the age of 99, was inaugurated Thursday in Budapest by Frederic Von Anhalt, the last of her nine husbands.
It celebrates the fast-paced life and flamboyant personality of a Hollywood legend who starred in dozens of films and television series, including John Huston's
Moulin Rouge
in 1951 and Orson Welles
's Thirst for Evil
in 1958. And who was also known for her colorful style, her multiple marriages and her legal and financial setbacks.
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"Zsa Zsa was the first real world celebrity, doors always opened for her all over the world,"
78-year-old Frederic Von Anhalt told AFP.
"It's wonderful that there is now a museum for her,"
he said.
"Now Zsa Zsa is alive again, she's right there,"
he added, referring to the new museum.
"It's wonderful that there is now a museum for her",
he welcomed the last husband of the Hollywood actress, Frederic Von Anhalt.
ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP
A statue is also in the works, according to her husband, and possibly a TV series and film about her long and tumultuous life.
The couple had married in 1986, by far the longest union of Zsa Zsa Gabor, who married among others a Turkish diplomat, the magnate of the hotel industry Conrad Hilton or the British actor George Sanders.
“Scandalous”
but generous, the one who
“never hated a man enough to give him back his diamonds”
shares her recipes in
How to find a man, how to keep him and how to get rid of him,
published in 1970.
Born in Budapest on February 6, 1917, to a diamond dealer father and a mother dreaming of being an actress, Sari Gabor, Miss Hungary in 1936, left to try her luck in the United States at the age of 24, with his two sisters Eva and Magda.
She had been the victim of a very serious car accident in 2002 which had left her partially paralyzed.
Zsa Zsa Gabor also suffered a stroke in 2005.