New York Post

ZSA ZSA HUB: I MI$$ YOU

‘Plan to profit’ on her 100th

- By CARLOS GREER cgreer@nypost.com

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband wanted her to stay alive until she turned 100 — so he could throw her a massive birthday bash and then peddle it as a story to the tabloids, her pal told The Post on Monday.

“He wanted to throw a big 100th birthday,” the source said of Gabor’s kooky ninth husband, a selfprocla­imed German prince, Frédéric von Anhalt.

“He’d throw these birthdays [every year] to get money from the rags,’’ the source claimed. “They don’t pay as much as they used to, but he was anticipati­ng the 100th birthday.”

Gabor died Sunday at age 99, less than two months shy of her Feb. 6 birthday.

In 2012, on Gabor’s 95th birthday, von Anhalt threw a party at their Bel-Air mansion, serving German food like pretzels and schnitzel — while she remained bedridden in her room.

“This night is only a celebratio­n of my wife’s life,” he said.

By then, Gabor’s right leg had been amputated because of an infection and was a shell of her glamorous former self.

On Monday, von Anhalt spoke to reporters outside their estate, saying her death came as a “big surprise.”

“She didn’t scream or complain about anything,” he said. “The way I see it, when I felt her hand, and it was cold already, she was slowly slipping away peacefully without pain.”

“It was the time for her to go,” he added. “She wanted to go.”

Von Anhalt, 73, did not return a request from The Post for comment.

Von Anhalt met Gabor at a Hollywood party in 1984.

“I didn’t have an invitation, and I forced myself into it,” he later told The Associated Press.

While many have said von Anhalt, the son of a German police detective, bought himself a title, he has insisted that a German princess, Marie Auguste of Anhalt, adopted him in 1980 and gave it to him.

He has admitted to passing along the title to at least 10 other people for cash. “If someone offers you $2 million, you do it,” von Anhalt once said.

The couple wed in 1986. “It was a friendship,” von Anhalt said. “But when you’re with someone over a certain time, you fall in love.”

Von Anhalt once sued the maker of Viagra, claiming the medication made him unable to have sex unless he took the drug. He later dropped the case.

He also ran for California governor in 2010 but ended up dropping out to focus on taking care of Gabor.

“I’m not going to lie,” he told The Independen­t at the time. “I have indeed slept with prostitute­s. If someone asks about it in debates, I will confess.”

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