Auction of Zsa Zsa's Estate

The Dahling diamond necklace, dahling!

All her jewels were fake, and her house is filled with worthless shit. Brava, Zsa Zsa, you dead phony cunt!!

They should consolidate and have a LiZsa auction!

Lófasz a seggedbe, R2!

Her passport where she shaves 11 years off of her real age.

I’m going. Love ZsaZsa. Will report back.

Don't forget, money made off of these auctioned items will go to the von Asshole.

How much are her old diaphragms going for?

I just bid on the Blackamoor table!!!

I tried to register so I could buy something, but had no luck. Oh well.

omg, she actually altered the birthdate on one of her passports in ink. Can you imagine trying to get through a TSA check today with that. The dates on the passports and the drivers licenses vary from 1923 to 1928.

A lot of crap, fake jewelry, BAD paintings by some Hungarian/American artist she must have been supporting because there are lots of his work. The portraits are interesting. A couple of gorgeous Hermes handbags and a set of LV hard-sided luggage that looks cool.

Worth scrolling through.

The pill bottles are hilarious!

For any of you broke guys without china, there are several sets of Wedgewood and Spode (services for 8) which appear to be going for under $100. I actually did find something I used to lust after 30 years ago. There is a set of 3 Boehm pandas which are way below the retail price. But I'll probably end up passing because I already have too much crap.

I must have her script from her Facts of Life guest spot

Behold the bed of Zsa Zsa. I'll take it!

Sweet.

I want her wooden leg.

Current bid: $22

Those 2 Hermes alligator bags seem to be the hottest items of all. They are true classics.

Current bid $70.

I love these inkwells. Current bid is only $22.

She seems to have had an inkwell fetish.

I love her riding jackets, but they don't list the sizes.

WTF?!

She had some nice things, the portrait of Magda by Fried Pal is well done, though not in a currently popular style. I wouldn't mind having the Chinese Chippendale mirrors.

Did they save her prosthetic leg? I'd bid $20 for that.

That Big Eye painting of her is probably the best investment.

Here ya go #25, only 20 bucks.

Dear R4, I am half Hungarian. Horseshow in Your ass! Menj kibaszott egy egyszárnyú kurva! (Go fuck your one legged whore!)

[quote] For any of you broke guys without china, there are several sets of Wedgewood and Spode (services for 8) which appear to be going for under $100. I actually did find something I used to lust after 30 years ago. There is a set of 3 Boehm pandas which are way below the retail price. But I'll probably end up passing because I already have too much crap.

7 days of bidding left expect those numbers to change quite q bit.

If I remember correctly; her husband said that, as Gabor's health declined and prior to selling the house, that had sold off the valuable antiques and such. I'm guessing that they sold off her real jewelry. And her mother, Jolie Gabor, owned a very successful costume jewelry business. So it stands to reason that Zsa Zsa would own bunches of the stuff.

In the 1930s, Jolie opened Crystello, a shop selling crystal and porcelain in Budapest, as well as Jolie's, a handmade-costume-jewelry shop at 4 Kígyó utca in Budapest; she also established another branch of her eponymous shop in Győr. Eventually there were five such shops in the Budapest area. The firm's jewels also incorporated semiprecious stones and were admired for their old-fashioned settings and workmanship.

"Just like Bulgari is known in Rome, that's how well-known I was in Budapest", Jolie once stated. "Jolie's did so well that at holiday time they were standing outside in line waiting until somebody goes out from the inside."The rise of Nazism in Germany forced her to curtail her retail business, Gabor recalled, "Everybody told, 'Jolie is crazy to go now to Berlin and Leipzig for jewelry.' I never went again."

She was forced to close the stores when Hungary was occupied by the Germans, at which time she and other family members fled to Portugal.[28] They were assisted by Carlos Sampaio Garrido, Portuguese ambassador to Hungary — Gabor's daughter Magda reportedly was either his aide or his mistress — who provided safe passage to many Hungarian Jews in 1944. An article in Vanity Fair stated in 2001 that it was under Sampaio's guidance that the family "... had been spirited out of the country ..." Her brother, Sebestyén (or Sebastian), also a jeweler, spent part of the war in labor camps, beginning in 1942, until he and their mother, Franceska, were killed in a Budapest bombing raid during World War II.

Gabor arrived in the United States on December 30, 1945. She opened a successful costume jewelry business (called simply Jolie Gabor) in New York City in 1946, with $7,200 borrowed from her daughters. It later moved to 699 Madison Avenue. Gabor also established a branch of the firm in Palm Springs, California. Among the company's designers were Elsa Beck and Stephen Kelen d'Oxylion, as well as her own daughter, Magda.

One of the saleswomen was Evangelia Callas, mother of future opera diva Maria Callas. In 1953 the store introduced ornamental metal fingernails studded with rhinestones. In 1975, almost 80 years old, Jolie signed with the Keene Lecture Bureau as an inspirational speaker. She toured the country speaking about the relationship between beauty and female empowerment.

Its very sad to see so many very personal items like family photos auctioned off, because there is not more family.

R30, I have a vintage shop and frequently go to estate sales. It was unsettling in the beginning but now I find it morbidly fascinating. We all leave behind our personal possessions and they are an interesting window into our lives. I love the sales filled with quirky collections and the remnants of a life creatively lived. The homes I find the saddest are those furnished with boring stuff from department stores. Gabor's things truly reflect her frilly life, it's a treat for me to see them. It is sad, though, that there is no family left to take them.

I didn't see any Eva Gabor wigs....did they have a falling out?

Bernie Madoff swindled Zsa Zsa ou of 10 million dollars. Which (if I remember correctly) is what led to her selling off antiques, probably her jewelry and then her home. Madoff's victims are finally receiving some form of restitution. Unfortunately Zsa Zsa won't. She certainly faced her share of setbacks in the last several decades of her life. She lost her mother, then her older sister Magda, and then her younger sister Eva. A car accident left her partially paralyzed. She was swindled out of millions of dollars. Her health began to fail. Her crooked asshole husband kept her estranged from her only child. Who then died in a public restroom without her mother ever knowing. The once shrewd and vibrant, glamorous star spent the last several years of her life confined to a hospital bed, unable to communicate. And her husband allowed the press to come in and photograph her. Everyone gets old and certainly she had the resources to live more comfortably than many, but it still seems like a rather tragic end.

Bernie Madoff Victims Like John Malkovich, Mort Zuckerman Will Finally Get Relief By John Bonazzo • 11/10/17 2:58pm

The Department of Justice announced yesterday that it had begun distributing relief to the 24,000 victims of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history.

The Madoff Victim Fund will distribute $772.5 million in its initial cash infusion. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the payout was “the largest restoration of forfeited property in history.”

Even so, these funds represent only a fraction of the $4 billion that was recovered for the victims in total. And that figure seems even smaller considering prosecutors estimate Madoff cheated his clients out of $64.8 billion in total.

Madoff, the chairman of an eponymous securities firm, made the wealth management arm of his business into an elaborate Ponzi scheme, fabricating investment figures to make his clients think they were making money.

He carried on the four-decade-long swindle until 2008, when he was arrested and charged with 11 federal felonies. The 79-year-old pleaded guilty and is currently serving a 150 year prison sentence in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Madoff’s clients included New York elites like Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman (who lost $30 million), author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel (who lost his $12 million life savings along with $15 million for his foundation), socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor (who lost $10 million) and actor John Malkovich (who lost $2 million). Wiesel and Gabor have since died.

The money in the $4 billion Victim Fund isn’t even Madoff’s—it was collected from third parties. More than half came from the estate of Madoff investor Jeffry Picower, a Madoff investor and beneficiary who reportedly netted $5 billion from the Ponzi scheme (more than Madoff himself). Madoff’s victims sued Picower prior to his death in 2009.

About $1.7 billion in the fund came from JPMorgan Chase, which was fined under the Bank Secrecy Act because it turned a blind eye to Madoff’s activities.

Richard Breeden, the administrator of the Victim Fund, was criticized for taking $39 million in billings from it through the end of last year. Even Congress took notice: Florida Senator Vern Buchanan, whose state was hit hard by Madoff’s scheme, asked his state’s entire congressional delegation to put pressure on Breeden and the Justice Department.

The process was complicated by the fact that many of Madoff’s victims invested in feeder funds, which were overseen by outside investors. Most of these investors put their clients’ funds in Madoff’s till without letting those clients know—so they initially didn’t realize they had lost all their money.

A separate victim fund overseen in bankruptcy court by Madoff trustee Irving Picard has distributed more than $9 billion since 2009. This fund doesn’t accept claims from anyone who didn’t invest directly with Madoff, making cash payouts simpler.

I understand the idea that Zsa Zsa had some good jewelry which she sold off leaving the paste in her possession. But then how do you explain her appearing on Letterman and a book cover many years ago in one of the pieces of paste which is for sale?

She probably did have some nice pieces at some point in her life, but she surely wasn't in Elizabeth Taylor's league.

Or Candy Spelling either for that matter.

[quote] I understand the idea that Zsa Zsa had some good jewelry which she sold off leaving the paste in her possession. But then how do you explain her appearing on Letterman and a book cover many years ago in one of the pieces of paste which is for sale? She probably did have some nice pieces at some point in her life, but she surely wasn't in Elizabeth Taylor's league. Or Candy Spelling either for that matter.

As I stated before. He mother owned a successful costume jewelry business. I don't doubt that she's always owned plenty of costume jewelry. I don't recall anyone here having compared her to Elizabeth Taylor or Candy Spelling. And when I said that she (or her husband) probably sold off her real jewels. I was only speculating.

Because:

1. Obviously she owned more jewelry than what we see being auctioned.

2. Most everything being auctioned is fake.

3. She was swindled out of 10 million dollars.

4. Her husband talked about having sold off antiques and eventually they had to sell the house.

That IS Madonna at R28

The right jewels can keep you rich for a long time. Marvin Davis was essentially broke when he died, their estate The Knoll had a $40,000,000 lien against it, almost it's full value. Barbara Davis has been living very well off the sales of her jewelry. And this is after being robbed in the South of France for $10,000,000 worth of it.

R36 No, I compared her to Spelling and Taylor in my comment.

I did not imply that you or anyone else did.

I won’t be bidding for any of Zsa Zsa’s tchotchkes, but I’m definitely bidding on THE FIGHTING PAIR — I must have that three million dollar pair of gigantic dinosaur fossils in my drawing room!

R5, she also claimed to have green eyes. They were brown.

No R33, you couldn't trust a thing Zsa or her mother claimed. Everything exaggerated and spun. Family background. Just everything.

Blame the Nazis, the war & on & on. See the mother also got her nose done. The mom was a known pathological liar. I don't believe for a moment she owned true quality precious stones. I don't believe 10 million to Madoff. Highest amount half a mill if that. Her house and stables were in serious state of disrepair for decades.

I consider myself a fan so I'm gonna have to agree with R2. Her nose job really elevated her face. Besides Anna Nicole, she could pull off platinum blond with dark eyes. Like Trump, everything was a hollow show..but she always delivered and her recipe for goulash was outstanding. She will always be missed.

Oh and she lied about her daughter being a Hilton. It was the guy before or after.

[quote] No [R33], you couldn't trust a thing Zsa or her mother claimed. Everything exaggerated and spun. Family background. Just everything. Blame the Nazis, the war & on & on. See the mother also got her nose done. The mom was a known pathological liar. I don't believe for a moment she owned true quality precious stones. I don't believe 10 million to Madoff. Highest amount half a mill if that. Her house and stables were in serious state of disrepair for decades

On January 25, 2009, the Associated Press reported that her attorney stated that forensic accountants determined that Gabor may have lost as much as $10 million invested in Bernie Madoff's company, possibly through a third-party money manager

Datalounge queens rejoice! A collection of 17 television scripts, including her 1981 appearance on THE FACTS OF LIFE.

A Zsa Zsa Gabor Collection of Her Scripts from Television Appearances, 1960s-1990s. Seventeen total including (in alphabetical order): Batman (3 scripts from the episode 'Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires'), Bonanza, Burke's Law, The Donna Reed Show (3 scripts from different episodes), The Facts of Life, Gilligan's Island, Hollywood Backstage, The Love Boat (3 scripts from different episodes), Matt Houston, and The Rounders (2 scripts); some with the star's annotations, some noting her name on the covers.

I've found the perfect gift for Harry & what's-her name!

Tons of blackamoor 💩

Wow, lots of junk on display here, but I did see a couple of good paintings (some Miros, Chagalls, Matisses and Picassos). And can someone please tell me what this monstrosity is and why are they expecting to get $5000 for it?

This painting of Walter Matthau is everything! I'm thinking about bidding for it just for fun.

Another very tasteful painting from Zsa Zsa's collection. Can't you just imagine this hanging in your dining room?

As stated earlier up thread, I have dibs on that Blackamoor occasional table.

It WILL be MINE!

Seems, her husband Freddie needs some money.

Don't forget to add the 25% buyers fee. Not sure about sales tax.

Zsa Zsa used to be such an entitled bitch on the Merv Griffin Show.

Nice glutes and calves on the blackamoor at R49.

It's so sad she was a Republican.

Eva Gabor was much prettier than Zsa Zsa, and much wealthier. She was married to an executive from Rockwell, Frank Jameson who she caught in bed with a young guy. She dumped him but got a huge settlement to keep it quiet. Plus she got nice percentage of the Green Acres money.

Eva sure seemed to be a doll. I loved her, and I bet she and Merv had a ball during their bearding arrangement.

Much more fun that Malcom and Elizabeth.

Work it, girls.

Glamour kids

Zsa Zsa was uniquely pretty when she was young.

But Zsa Zsa got Eva's estate when Eva died.

O & ZZ ....

😈 Her pitchfork(s) from "Green Acres."

I am sure the bulk of whatever money Zsa Zsa had came from Eva's estate.

[quote] I am sure the bulk of whatever money Zsa Zsa had came from Eva's estate.

Right because Zsa Zsa worked for free.

"All her jewels were fake, and her house is filled with worthless shit."

That's like a slap in the face.

I'm old enough to remember when she would guest on Merv Griffin's 1960's afternoon talk show and the producers would make her stuff Kleenex down her neckline to cover her cleavage.

R60, Are you sure? I always read Eva caught him in the middle of the night with a woman.

Dear R72. She caught him with a man, but stayed close to his Daughter. R69, Zsa Zsa never had a career that earned her the money her lifestyle required. She got her money elsewhere and from settlements from husbands, none of whom, except for Hilton, were particularly wealthy. My Great Uncle was their business manager. Magda had also married well and was frugal. I'm sure she left something to her sisters.

Also, R72, I believe the man's name was Ted Casablanca. He was caught in a pool, somewhere above Trousdale.

r74, Ted Casablanca is NOT a fag. And I'm the dame who can prove it.

Zsa Zsa claimed Mexicans stole and altered her ID's. She would've been a huge Trump supporter.

One of her classmates revealed her real birth year right after the cop slapping trial and added this insult to Zsa Zsa's real age being revealed injury.

[quote] 'She was fat in those days,' Mrs. Nussbaum remembered. 'She was not some small little girl.'

I'm sure Zsa Zsa wanted to do more than just slap her former classmate.

IS Prince Frederick available? Id love to fuck that hot hairy german daddy

R77 He's always free except around groups of lesbians.

The guy's a fake. the key in the ignition is from a loaner or rental agency, and if he was ripped of by anyone it was a male trick.

R79 I don't think anyone bought his claims about being stripped naked and robbed by lesbians. It wouldn't be surprising at all if it was a trick with a man gone wrong.

One thing I will say about von Asshole is that he has a nice body for his age.

Looks like most all the jewels (at least the ones that look expensive) are just glass junk set in pot metal.

[quote] All her jewels were fake, and her house is filled with worthless shit.

That's how most Hollywood celebrities live. Most of them are cheap asses and most of their possessions are just imitations meant to make them look richer than they are.

R82 Welcome to Hollywood. Smoke and mirrors. If you're smart you save all of the big money you make for later when you're career is drying up.

Better to be frugal now then sorry later.

I've heard repeatedly that Zsa Zsa never had any money invested with Madoff. And that her husband lied and made up the whole story about losing $10 million dollars to the ponzi scheme. He just wanted in on the media attention that the scandal was getting.

You can't really believe anything these people say.

I believe Barbara Davis lives in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills hotel. If Marvin Davis was broke at the time of his death. Then how exactly is Barbara able to afford a bungalow at the Beverly Hills hotel? They can go for as much as $15K a night.

At one point they supposedly had something like $5 billion dollars in the family. And Marvin died and the fortune went to something like $500 million dollars. At least that is what was reported. I've also noticed Brandon Davis works in real estate now. I guess his mother got tired of supporting him and his brother. Especially since she's been having her own financial problems as well.

I still don't understand how a ones very wealthy family has virtually nothing today. That's crazy.

Barbara Davis lives in The Wilshire, a very nice condo on Wilshire. Her apartment is probably worth 2 million. Brandon Davis's mother Nancy married a wealthy guy from New Jersey so she' s fine but not rich.She had to sell her Bel Air house forthe mortgage of around 12 million. It was redone and sold for around 50. The Davis's never were billionaires. At his peak, he was worth $600,000,000. which was lot of money at the time.

[quote] I've heard repeatedly that Zsa Zsa never had any money invested with Madoff. And that her husband lied and made up the whole story about losing $10 million dollars to the ponzi scheme. He just wanted in on the media attention that the scandal was getting. You can't really believe anything these people say.

A lawyer for Zsa Zsa Gabor says the 91-year-old actress may have lost as much as $10 million invested with accused swindler Bernard Madoff. Chris Fields said Sunday that forensics accountants looking into the missing millions believe they were invested with Madoff through a third-party money manager. He says the loss was noticed about a week ago when Gabor's husband Frederic von Anhalt was checking on the couple's finances. Madoff is estimated to have duped investors out of as much as $50 billion in a large-scale Ponzi scheme. Potential victims include several high-profile New Yorkers and Hollywood figures.

THE MAN WHO ATE HOLLYWOOD

A giant of a man, Marvin Davis lived a giant life. Rocky Mountain wildcatter turned Hollywood mogul, he treated Twentieth Century Fox as his personal playground, broke all the rules (even his own), and, when he died last year, left his family warring over what may be a vanished $5.8 billion fortune.

I could of sworn I read Barbara sold the Wilshire condo and moved to the Beverly Hills hotel. because if so that's backwards. Especially for a family who has had serious financial problems in the past. I could be wrong though.

Zsa Zsa claimed to have worked for everything she had. How is that possible? She was never an A list movie star. She really wasn't even a movie star. She was more of a personality in pictures more so than anything else. She said her ex husband's never gave her any real money to move on with. Her settlement from Conrad Hilton was only $100K. So how did she end up with so much if she was never really a too film star. And she only received very little in her divorce settlements. Because she was basically celebrity socialite if anything. She was never a real actor. That was her sister Eva.

I've always been curious about her finances and how she was able to fund such a comfortable lifestyle. With very little work and D-list paychecks.

$100k back then is the equivalent of about $1.5 million today . Had she invested it well at the time she would have been wealthy indeed