Welcome to Trashy Divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.

I am Alicia and I am delighted to present to you this month a brand new series,

the glamorous Gabors. We are including in this collection of fabulous women, three sisters,

Magda, Zaja, and Ava, of course, as well as their matriarch, Mama Jolie. These gals never did anything small, and

we aim to mimic that over here on trashy divorces. We're going big. Between these four

fabulous ladies, the sum of marriages and divorces are pretty astounding. Here are the trashy totals. 23 marriages,

18 divorces, two widowhoods, two annulments. You see why this is going to take a few weeks.

In this teaser of an introduction today, I do want to give you a bit of a setup to get you in the mood,

Dalinks. As family friend Merv Griffin wrote in his memoir, Merv making the good life last.

All these years later, it's hard to describe the phenomenon of the three glamorous Gabor's and their ubiquitous mother.

They burst onto the society pages and into the gossip columns so suddenly and with such

force it was as if they dropped from the sky. According to Gossipist and Gabor family friend, Cindy Adams,

they were blonder than anyone.

They wore jewelry larger than anyone.

They had these wonderful accents,

which they all but went to teachers to make sure they didn't lose. It was all revisionist history.

Were they blonde? No. Did they have those noses? No. But you knew it. That was the difference.

You weren't looking for the truth. You knew there was none. They were cotton candy.

The Gabors with a no plus ultra of 20th century celebrity,

their name became a kind of cultural shorthand

for what it meant to be famous for being famous.

But Sam Staggs, perhaps their most dogged biographer,

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