‘Sickened’ by star’s birthday
LARRY King’s wife, Shawn King, was “shocked, sickened and angry” at a chilling birthday party Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt threw for his wife, where she claims Gabor was “on display” for guests in a hospital bed.
The Post reported Tuesday that Gabor’s pals allege Anhalt wanted Gabor, who died Sunday at 99, to stay alive till 100 so he could throw her a massive bash and peddle the party to tabloids.
Shawn recalled to Gabor’s former p.r. pro Edward Lozzi on Facebook the night she passed: “Larry and I were invited to her ‘birthday party’ a few years ago. She was alone in her room. The house was filled with many strangers of question- able character dancing the night away. We were brought back to see Zsa Zsa. She was . . . in a hospital bed unable to communicate. That ‘husband’ of hers had her on display for us [and] only wanted a photo op for himself. We left quickly, feeling sad, shocked, sickened and angry. Somehow the photo showed up in the tabloids. I was mortified.”
Shawn told us Tuesday, “It’s all true . . . She squeezed our hands and we sang ‘ Happy Birthday.’ I felt incredibly sad.” Lozzi told us Gabor’s friends, including Phyllis Diller, stopped coming around because of the parties, for which Anhalt put up billboards. “They were appalled to see all these Eurotrash people running around,” he said.
But Anhalt responded: “Those people are all full of s - - t. They should go on with life, if they have a life. My wife celebrated every event, huge! Her birthday. My birthday . . . I did it the way she did it.” He said, “All the billboards . . . It was all paid out of my pocket, not my wife’s money. My wife loved it. She always smiled and that’s why I did it.” And, “We had cameras in all the rooms, and my wife saw every move we made. I made a deal with my wife . . . to be together forever. I was planning to have an event [on her 100th] for the whole world to see and read about. That’s what my wife wanted. Entertainment was the best medicine ever for her. She loved Hollywood with all of her heart. People are careless and they’re full of s - - t.”