Zsa Zsa Gabor and Francesca Hilton

Oh the tragedy

Zsa Zsa has a history of slapping. She even went to jail for it, didn't she?

If that is so, i hope Zsa Zsa had fun in jail, Eva.

Did you love your sister Eva?

Was the slapping vicious?

To understand their relationship you really should read "The Hiltons: the True Story of an American Dynasty". It is supposed to be about the Hilton family, but the author did extensive research into the relationship between Conrad and Zsa Zsa and shares some great stories. He also gets deep into Zsa Zsa's relationship with Francesca and the dynamics of this mother-daughter relationship. Definitely worth a read.

I would love to know how it was like growing up with Zsa Zsa as a mother, along with having Eva and Magda as aunties, and Jolie as grandma. I think Francesca simply couldn't measure up, and Zsa Zsa and them never let her think otherwise.

I think I'll check that out, r5.

Francesca felt being named after a diet grapefruit soda was too much and made no habit of hiding her displeasure. ZsaX2 wouldn't permit such social impropriety.

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"Someone on here wrote they once witnessed Z slapping Francesca across the face in a retail store."

Zsa Zsa caught her paying the retail price.

The only child born to Zsa Zsa — one of Hungarian sisters the Gabors, who specialised in marrying rich men and collecting magnificent jewellery along the way — Francesca would appear to have been born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

Her blonde bombshell mother had starred in the 1952 hit film Moulin Rouge and then made a name for herself as a TV personality, uttering such bon mots as: ‘I’m a great housekeeper. When I divorce a man, I always keep his house.’ But she wasn’t worth a fortune.

As for Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate whose name Francesca bore, he never even mentioned her in his 1957 memoir and left her just $100,000 of his fortune, worth about $6 billion (nearly £4 billion) in today’s money, when he died in 1979.

In the decades that followed, Francesca devoted her life and any money she had to fighting her father’s will, but lost resoundingly — and even, under a quirk of California law, forfeited the original $100,000.

Those who knew her believe her fight wasn’t just for money but to establish without doubt that Conrad was her father — which he once disputed to her but not to Zsa Zsa, who said that if he did ‘I would have killed him’.

Friends of Francesca, pictured, the only child of screen siren Zsa Zsa Gabor, claim she had felt depressed for weeks and kept repeating that she wanted to die

Conrad and Zsa Zsa were separated at the time of Francesca’s conception — they divorced in 1947 — and although Zsa Zsa assured me that Conrad visited her one day in 1946, raped her and that Francesca was the result, her story is in doubt.

Back in the Seventies, the right-hand woman of Conrad Hilton’s son, Barron, told me that Francesca’s father was not Conrad but the actor George Sanders. The resemblance to Sanders is startling.

To the end, Francesca considered herself a Hilton. But if she was on shaky ground there, anyone who saw her with her mother felt that she didn’t resemble her much, either.

As a child, Francesca adored her mother, but Zsa Zsa did her best to turn her little girl into a live-in photo opportunity, throwing her lavish birthday parties to which she invited reporters from Life magazine.

As Francesca grew up, though, Zsa Zsa was dismayed when she balked against wearing make-up and losing weight, and rejected the glamorous Gabor image. Instead, Francesca was honest, funny, cynical and bright, so that when young reality TV star Paris Hilton hit the headlines, she remarked: ‘I’m the original Hilton heiress. I’m older, wiser, smarter. And I’m damned wider . . .’

Although Francesca didn’t grow up to be a man-eater like her mother, she had a crush on singer Kris Kristofferson, dated Peter Sellers and once infuriated Joan Collins by flirting openly with Joan’s then husband, Ron Kass.

Yet love, happiness and career success eluded her.

Conrad Hilton refused to pay her an allowance and wouldn’t even let her stay one night on his luxurious estate.

Only once did he grant her a temporary role in his hotel empire, as a receptionist at the Beverly Hilton, where guests flatly refused to believe she was a member of his family.

After that, Francesca tried valiantly to become a professional photographer, then an actress, and managed to play a few bit parts in films.

Her last career was as a stand-up comedienne, in an act that consisted of poking fun at Zsa Zsa (‘my mother and I, we’re the best of friends now we’re the same age’), her heritage and, above all, herself.

Towards the end of her life, though, Francesca had very little to laugh about.

After marrying and divorcing eight men, in 1986 Zsa Zsa married her final husband. Born Hans Robert Lichtenberg, a policeman’s son from Germany, her new spouse — who purported to be 27 years her junior — had been adopted as an adult by the elderly German princess Marie Auguste Von Anhalt.

Frederic fought a dogged battle to keep Francesca away from Zsa Zsa. On the few occasions when he allowed them to meet, Francesca found her mother his virtual prisoner.

Stricken with dementia and with one leg amputated, Zsa Zsa was able only to squeeze Francesca’s hand to let her know she knew who she was.

‘She once called me The Brat, so that’s how I announce myself,’ Francesca said wryly. ‘I say: “Mother, the Brat’s here.” ’

But Francesca was far from being a brat. She was a tortured woman who grew up with very little love, grappling with a mother more concerned with herself than with her child.

‘Do I have breakfast with my mother? Of course not. She always has it in bed,’ she once said, without bitterness.

Since her death was announced, Frederic Von Anhalt has said openly that he has no intention of letting his wife, now 97, know that her only daughter is dead.

So even in death, Francesca Hilton is denied access to the mother who never gave her the reassurance she craved, but whom Francesca loved so much.

R11 and r12 are copied from the article in r9.

R13...Tattletale!

Zsa Zsa was a monster, and she married another monster.

What an incredibly sad life.

And she looks nothing like her mother. Just a plain unloved child.

The Sanders look is there though. No wonder Hilton disliked and resented her so much.

She got no breaks in life.

Poor Francesca. If Conrad wasn't her biological father, I can see why he'd be distant towards her. That is one of the worst things that a woman can do to her husband IMO. It's unforgivable. And fuck Zsa Zsa for doing it and justifying it, if it is true.

Francesca was attractive and possibly could have been very attractive with the right makeup and surgery. She was reportedly placed into a mental hospital in the '80s. At the end, it was said she was taking photos of Zsa Zsa in her terrible state and selling them to the National Enquirer.

Zsa Zsa was such a fan of cosmetic surgery and the superficial. I wonder why she didn't force her daughter to go under the knife or send her to a fat farm.

Prince von Asshole was an asshole to keep Francesca away from her mother. Asshole!

What a nightmare world of people that girl was brought up with.

And I thought suburban NJ was bad.

Mommy Dearest II

Did Zsa Zsa's corpse burst into flames when her heart stopped?

Conrad Hilton was separated from Zsa Zsa at the time of the alleged rape Francesca's' conception as the article states. He was also in a cast with a shattered arm and under doctor supervised sedation. He was not her father but never said so publicly to avoid further embarrassment.

Zsa Zsa was also fucking his son Nicky (Mr. Liz Taylor) during their marriage. Conrad Hilton and all the Hiltons knew this and hated both mother and daughter with a passion.

Wow, that's some good Hollywood gossip shit that I never heard before...

I'm going to write an outline and pitch this as a mini-series

Zsa Zsa slapped everybody - it was a sign of love...or anger, or disgust...but at least you had her full attention.

When was Francesca ever happy?

Maybe when she knew she was going to die.

The funny thing is all the money Conrad left in his will was to his foundation. One of those goals is to fight homelessness and Francesca was homeless, living in her car when she died.

Sounds like she didn't know a world existed outside of Hollywood & Vine. And it eventually killed her.

We met Francesca a couple of times around 1990 when we were both doing business at the same establishment on Sunset in WeHo.

She was a rather unpleasant person, at least to us.

Some say that the reason Conrad Hilton did not leave her millions was because he was not sure that she was his.

Poor Francesca!

Zsa should have had an abortion. Unwanted children are the saddest thing in the world.

She used to come into 20/20 Video on Sunset Blvd when I worked there. She was like a biker chick. She had a crush on my coworker Dennis Casey, who's now the guitar player for Flogging Molly. Whoever said she was attractive- nooooo.

Last time I saw her was at the Silent Movie Theater on Fairfax. They were running Queen From Outer Space, and the ad in the LA Weekly said Zsa Zsa would be there. This was circa 2008, and Zsa Zsa hadn't been seen in public in some time. I was curious so I went. .

When I arrived, the head of the theater dude told me that he didn't think Zsa Zsa was coming after all. That her wacky daughter promised her, butnow it looked like it wasn't happening. Soon, Francesca was in front of the poster of the movie, and she was videotaping a message to her mother. Estelle Harris was at the screening, which is random.

She died in the bathroom at Norms on La Cieniga. I frankly can't imagine a worse fate. I assume she od'd on fent.