Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who has asked for a priest to administer the last rites, may not have looked like a feminist but had robust views about how women should stand up for themselves financially. Zsa Zsa, 93, married nine times – mostly to very wealthy men – and distilled her wit and wisdom into memorable one-liners.
For example, she once said: “I learned in school that money isn’t everything. It’s happiness that counts. So Momma sent me to a different school.”
Long before comedian Caroline Ahern, in character as Mrs Merton, asked Debbie McGee: “So, Debbie, what attracted first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”, Mrs Gabor observed: “I want a man who is kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?”
She famously preferred divorce to legal separation from her former partners because, she said: “Legal separation gives the husband time to hide his money.”
And there was more than a grain of truth in her claim: “I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.”
When accused of marrying so often it amounted to serial polygamy she observed: “There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men’s advances as long as they are in cash.”
Sadly, Zsa Zsa was not always a good judge of character and was reported to have lost more than $7m (£4.5m) to the fraudster Bernard Madoff.
Poster Comment:
Zsa Zsa might have asked for last rites but she was of Jewish descent as was most of Madoff's clients. Even Wikipedia admits her family was Jewish. She married Conrad Hilton and is the great-grandmother of Paris Hilton. To compare Zsa Zsa to Paris Hilton is sufficient proof for the bad influence of Hollywood upon American culture.