Posted on 01/26/2011 7:13:25 AM PST by Zakeet
It's been the scene of opulent parties and revelry.
But Zsa Zsa Gabor's starry life at her Bel Air mansion has now finally come to an end.
As the 93-year-old actress' health worsens, her husband has been forced to sell the couple's palatial mansion in order to pay for her medical fees.
Zsa Zsa's ninth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt told the media that he made the decision on Saturday, when his wife returned home from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after having about three-fourths of her leg amputated.
It was the 67-year-old socialite that gave the go-ahead for his wife's life-saving operation.
Doctors treating Gabor at the Los Angeles hospital decided on the procedure after an MRI revealed gangrene in her leg had spread into the bone.
Von Anhalt told the Los Angeles Times that his wife's mounting medical bills and bad debt are too much to deal with, and they need to sell the house so he can continue to look after her.
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Poor Zsa Zsa. She worked hard for whatever she had, and was very entertaining to watch. She didn't deserve all of this in the final years of her life.
I doubt it’s the medical bills that are the problem. My father had health problems as bad as ZsaZsa’s and Medicare paid the bills.
I think he wants to sell the house now while she’s still alive to have her cash in hand when she goes.
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I agree. She has to be on medicare. No way such expenses could be incurred.
This is just plain nuts.
I don’t trust the faux prince. I think he was always after her money.
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I was amazed by the lack of carpeting on the floors.
What the heck?
Rich people don’t use carpeting. That’s for the lower middle class.
Carpeting is way dated. My daughter wouldn’t dream of it.
Ok, now what if ge says it’s going to cost you &100,000.
Would you still do it?
If my mother wanted the surgery, yes. What price life?
What’s your answer?
What if you don’t have $100,000 and no chance of ever raising it, absent a lottery win?
If they get another home, they can avoid taxes on that part and if they file proper papers in CA they can transfer their old basis to pay less property taxes since they are over 55.
All this is my opinion from what I think I read or know, could be Gospel, maybe it isn't, I would suggest they do their own investigation.
Well, we can pile on "what ifs" all day long, so perhaps this will suffice. As an NCO in the Air Force, we learned one thing above all. "Adapt, adjust and overcome." I would do whatever was in my power and ability to make it happen, including going into debt.
And, besides... it's a moot point, because I CAN readily access that amount.
Why does she not have medicare?
What non medicare expenses would she have?
You can rack up huge expenses paying for round the clock caregivers. I’m sure the prince isn’t going to stay home on bed pan duty and be the caregiver.
ditto!-for him the end can’t be too far away in the future-he wants to “settle up” & when she kicks the bucket-he’s outta’ there ............
Sounds like a lump sum reverse mortgage. Also it allows her to spend down her estate to limit the death tax.
Around the clock care still can’t account for the $21 thousand per mo medical care. (50 thou according in ‘Inside Edition’ last night)
Licensed vocation nurse’s salary in Los Angelos are about $40 thou per yr., and nurse’s aids far less.
(They probably had RNs around the clock- which is foolish.
The only difference between a good experienced LVN and an RN is a degree and a humongous salary)
Zsa Zsa’s daughter, Francesca Hilton,with her mother....way back when...
The scenario I asked you about happened to me. My mother, although only 80, was in VERY poor health and in the hospital for somthing entirely unrelated. A neurologist approached me about this. I was aghast... There was not way I would put my mother through BRAIN SURGERY at the age of 80 or so in the condition she was in.(I did talk it over with other family members and they all agreed) Some daughters may have. I'm not making any judgements. Medicare would have paid for this operation. That's not the point. I'm just saying that when someone else is paying the bills, your decisions are a lot different.
What if she wasn’t physically healthy? Water on the brain causes dementia like symptoms...It was not about saving her life, it was about improving quality of life ... at the age of 93.
Zsa Zsa...
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