Episode 387 - Zsa Zsa Gabor Part 1
Hollywood Crime Scene
Rachel Fisher
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Before she was famous for being famous, she was a Hungarian girl with a dream. In Part 1 we discuss her early life in Hungary, her first marriage, her move to LA and marriage to Conrad Hilton, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. This is Desi Jadikin. |
| 0:04.4 | Desi. Yes. Today we are going to be talking about Jaja Gabor. Yay. |
| 0:11.8 | I don't know how you felt about this woman when you were a child, but I was fascinated by her. |
| 0:18.2 | She was like the first person where I was like, why is she famous? Same. Like, she was that |
| 0:23.4 | person because she was on every talk show. She wasn't like ever promoting a movie or anything. |
| 0:29.0 | No. She just married rich and she was fabulous and she always had like funny banter. Yeah, she had old, |
| 0:37.3 | she was famous for having lots of funny quips. Yeah, she was kind of like an Elizabeth Taylor if she didn't have an acting career. Like she just married a lot of people. Yeah. That was like her main thing. And she was also self-aware, which was interesting. Like, she knew she was a ridiculous thing. |
| 0:56.3 | Right. |
| 0:57.2 | She's like an original, like, reality star almost without a show. |
| 1:02.6 | She really is. |
| 1:04.1 | And we're going to get into that because also she had famous sisters. |
| 1:09.1 | Yes. |
| 1:09.3 | Her mother became well known as well. |
| 1:12.0 | Her mom, I would say, is the original Chris Jenner. |
| 1:15.3 | Okay. |
| 1:17.0 | And yeah. |
| 1:19.1 | Her story, though, much like Mickey Rooney, I read her autobiography, there's a lot of things to sort of parse through there. So I had multiple sources for this |
| 1:31.6 | episode. One of my sources is the book Finding Jaja, the Gabor's Behind the Legend by Sam Staggs. |
| 1:39.4 | Now, this guy painfully goes through the weeds of all the, of like her autobiography, other people, |
| 1:46.7 | like he gets, interviews other people in her life. |
| 1:49.5 | Like he, he did a real deep dive and trying to make hay of all of this. |
| 1:54.3 | And I did read Jaja's autobiography, One Lifetime is Not Enough. |
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