Why did it take five years for Zsa Zsa Gabor to be buried?
On December 18, 2016, the Hollywood Golden Age actress died of heart failure at the age of 99. On Tuesday July 19, she was finally buried five years later in the most appropriate and lavish manner for the starlet.
After her death, she was cremated. Now 3/4 of her ashes have been sent to her home country of Hungary because she wanted to be buried there. The other remaining quarter of his ashes will reside in Los Angeles. The majority of Gabor’s ashes got a first class flight with all fixings, she even had her own seat.
Gabor’s ninth and last husband told Reuters about the experience and his last wishes.
“She was in first class, she had her own seat and she had her passport, everything was there. It was her last trip, she always went first class, she had her champagne, her caviar, ”Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt told the store.
Von Anhalt and his late wife took transatlantic flights to London, then Germany before arriving in Budapest. He revealed that she wanted a “celebration of life, not a funeral”. She was buried in a cemetery in the capital in a ceremony featuring yellow and pink roses with a group of gypsies.
“She did a lot for Hungarians, whether it was for those who fled after the 1956 uprising, or during the polio epidemic, and she didn’t do these things because she wanted to make the news.” , von Anhalt said of his late wife.
Gabor has appeared in over thirty films and is best known for Moulin Rouge and Lili.