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Zsa Zsa Gabor has died, aged 99.

Hungarian actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has died at age 99.

Famous for her roles in Moulin Rouge, The Girl in the Kremlin and Queen of Outer Space, Gabor had been battling health issues since 2002, when she was involved in a car accident.

She reportedly died from a heart attack on Sunday.

Zsa Zsa Gabor. Image via Facebook.

Acting aside, Gabor was famous for having had nine husbands, including fellow actor George Sanders hotel and magnate Conrad Hilton. She leaves behind her latest husband Frederic Prinz vol Anhalt.

A cover story in Life Magazine in 1951 quoted her saying: "Men have always liked me and I have always liked men. But I like a mannish man, a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman – not just a man with muscles."

Portrait of Zsa Zsa Gabor for Moulin Rouge directed by John Huston, 1952. Image via Facebook.

Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary on February 6, 1917.  She began her acting career on the stages of Vienna, after she was discovered by tenor Richard Tauber during a trip to Austria. Tauber invited her to sing as a soprano in his new operetta The Singing Dream, to be shown at the Theater an der Wien. This would mark her fist stage performance.

Gabor was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936 and moved to the United States in 1941.

Zsa Zsa Gabor and her sisters were famous socialites in Hollywood. Image via Facebook.

Her and her sisters exploded on the Hollywood scene. Gabor was the middle of three daughters. Magda, her elder sister, was a socialite. Eva, the youngest, was an actress and business woman.

"All these years later, it's hard to describe the phenomenon of the three glamorous Gabor girls and their ubiquitous mother," television host Merv Griffin wrote in his autobiography. "They burst onto the society pages and into the gossip columns so suddenly, and with such force, it was as if they'd been dropped out of the sky."

Zsa Zsa Gabor was only months off 100. Image via Facebook.

In 1947, Gabor had her only child, a daughter named Constance Francesca Hilton. In her 1991 autobiography, One Lifetime Is Not Enough, Gabor said the pregnancy resulted from rape by her then-husband Conrad Hilton.

Constance Hilton died from a stroke on January 5, 2015, at the age of 67. Reportedly, Gabor's husband never told her about her daughter's death, fearing the news would kill her as well.

Gabor was planning to move back Budapest in the new year with her husband, following the celebration of what would have been her 100th birthday in February.