New York Post

‘Houseboy’ dishing on Zsa Zsa

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A FORMER “houseboy” for the late Zsa Zsa Gabor and her husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt claims the couple led completely separate lives — and that the glamorous actress was so mean she was even banned from Rodeo Drive’s designer stores for returning worn outfits.

Aaron Tonken says he lived in the couple’s guest house while working for them for a year in the late ’90s, and that Gabor and Anhalt’s relationsh­ip was more partnershi­p than romance.

“They had separate lives,” Tonken said. “He drove a beat-up Buick station wagon and she drove a Bentley. They slept in separate beds. It was not a normal relationsh­ip.”

Pals have told us that Anhalt threw lavish parties for Gabor — even when she was “in a hospital bed unable to communicat­e” — to peddle pics to tabloids.

But Anhalt, who has already given a tawdry TV tour of Gabor’s deathbed to “Inside Edition,” denies Tonken’s tales and claims he was fired.

Tonken told Page Six: “I was their houseboy. I did everything. I had never been treated so badly in my life. [Anhalt] is very arrogant and doesn’t have anything, and she was vicious and mean. There were always letters from every store on Rodeo Drive telling her not to come in . . . because she’d get dresses, wear them and return them constantly. If you didn’t understand what she said, she’d scream and yell, and he always threatened to sic the dogs on me.” Tonken penned a 2004 tell-all, “King of Cons: Exposing the Dirty, Rotten Secrets of the Washington Elite and Hollywood Celebritie­s.” He went to prison the same year for defrauding donors of charity galas.

But Anhalt shot back at Tonken, saying,“He lived with us for two days. He doesn’t know any stories. We told him to go because he was looking [snooping around] and doing everything else except tending to the garden. He got himself in big trouble. The law took care of him.”

Despite Anhalt’s past parties for Gabor, he told us, “Nobody knows where the funeral is . . . She was cremated. Most of her friends passed away already. She outlived everybody. The funeral is going to be very quiet except for me and about four people, and no media will be allowed.”

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