You have to give it to Zsa Zsa Gabor for one thing. The Number Nine is special to her. Famed for her Nine marriages, she lived for 99 years.

She died Sunday in Los Angeles, according to TheTimes, but has become an immortal of sorts, as she dropped a 'dahlink' at almost every show that she appeared in her last years as a celebrity. Though her movies were not famed for her talent, they were witty, charming and invented a new kind of fame.

Edward Lozzi, a close friend and former publicist, said that she died at about 1 p.m. Sunday. Reported to be "ahead of her time" in the 'Hollywood Golden Age', she has been honoured as a first "celebutante."

"She did not suffer fools well," said Lozzi, who had represented her "on and off" since 1989. "Zsa Zsa Gabor was one tough cookie. Her beautiful lips and mouth would also be her worst enemy when and if she turned on the verbal machine gun.

Most of her problems originated from that beautiful mouth. Zsa Zsa Gabor will always be an American icon and the klieg in the Gabor-Hilton dynasty."

Here is a delightful collection of her witticisms compiled by BBC:

"I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house."

"Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended."

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."

On former husband George Sanders: "We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him but he didn't."

"When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument."

"Never despise what it says in the women's magazines - it may not be subtle but neither are men."

"To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness."

"Macho does not prove mucho."

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do."

"I don't remember anybody's name. Why do you think the 'darling' thing started?"

"Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful."

"As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave."

"I love being married. I love the companionship, I love cooking for a man (simple things like chicken soup and my special Dracula's goulash from Hungary), and spending all my time with a man. Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfils me. But not in every case."

"I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long."

Zsa Zsa Gabor's deline in health, fame and fortune started in the new millennium. At the end, she died in heavy debt, hardly aware of what was going on around her. Yet, she has left a world much impoverished and deprived of her wit and charm.

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