Zsa Zsa Gabor Hospitalized After Spitting Up Blood
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was taken back to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center today when her husband found her having difficulty breathing and spitting up blood.
Gabor, 94, has been in and out of the hospital over the past year. She was hospitalized briefly last week due to elevated blood pressure after she learned of the death of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
According to publicist John Blanchette, Gabor’s husband — Prince Frederic Von Anhalt — called for an ambulance early this afternoon.
Gabor was hospitalized in early February due to a bout with pneumonia. In January, she had part of her right leg amputated because of an infection. She is also still dealing with injuries she suffered in a 2002 car wreck and a 2005 stroke.
She returned home from her February hospitalization in time for her 94th birthday, which she celebrated with friends and a serenade by Englebert Humperdink.
Zsa Zsa is the last of the three glamorous Gabor sisters, all of whom had careers in show business. Magda, the eldest, died in 1997 at age 82. Eva, who starred in the 1960s CBS sitcom “Green Acres,” died in 1995 at age 76.
Gabor’s mother, Jolie, lived to be 101 years old.
She was born Sari Gabor on Feb. 6, 1917, in Budapest, and in 1936 she won the Miss Hungary title.
She arrived in the United States about 1941, and by the early 1950s was appearing in films, including John Huston’s version of “Moulin Rouge” and Orson Welles’ “Touch of Evil.”
She made headlines in 1989 when she was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who pulled her over for a traffic violation and spent three days in jail.
In 2002, she was partly paralyzed in a car wreck in which her hairdresser was driving, and in 2005 she suffered a stroke.