- Born
- Birth nameHans-Robert Lichtenberg
- Frédéric von Anhalt was born on June 18, 1943 in Wallhausen, Kreuznach, Germany. He is an actor, known for Cinerockom (2012), That's a Wrap (2023) and Bild (2024). He was previously married to Zsa Zsa Gabor.
- SpouseZsa Zsa Gabor(August 14, 1986 - December 18, 2016) (her death)
- Children
- He married Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1986, and they remained married for over 30 years until her death in 2016. The marriage lasted longer than her previous eight marriages combined.
- In 1980, when he was 36, the elderly Maria Auguste Antoinette Friederike Alexandra Hilda Luise Prinzessin von Anhalt, a minor German princess and the ex-wife of Prince Joachim of Prussia and former daughter-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, adopted him, and he took the name "Fréderic Prinz von Anhalt", the German surname Prinz meaning prince. He also styled himself as Prince Frédéric of Anhalt, Duke of Saxony and Westphalia, Count of Ascania, although the German monarchy had been abolished in 1918 and no governments recognize his titles. The adoption was likely purchased to obtain a novelty royal title, and Maria had at least 35 other adopted adult children. Frédéric himself later adopted at least ten adult children to confer princely titles and knighthoods.
- The home he shared with wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor, was used as the location for Liberace's mansion during filming of Behind the Candelabra (2013).
- "My mother, Zsa Zsa Gabor, always wanted to be a princess, so she married a queen!" This was Francesca Hilton's sarcastic barb at Frederic's alleged homosexuality. [THR 3/7/18, p. 86].
- "I think it was an arrangement of mutual convenience. She knew he was gay. Everyone around them knew it was a joke, that he wasn't a prince. But she was also difficult and just happy, at that age, to find someone who would be with her, who she could use as a prop." [James Pembroke, former Security Director for Zsa Zsa Gabor] [THR, 3/7/18, p. 87].
- Those other guys when there was a fight, they'd leave. Then they'd try to apologize with a present. I didn't do that. We always talked it out on the spot. She loved to fight. She wanted to show she's the boss. I always knew to give in. [His explanation for staying in Zsa Zsa's favor.]
- I never talk about my sexual life. For 35 years, I've been going to that gym in West Hollywood. I get along with everybody. I do my stuff. I go the the sauna. Things happen. Who cares? [Von Anhalt's response to allegations that he frequents a gay WEHO gym.]
- We'd been together for several years before we were married. She knew about everything: She read the papers. She got a thousand calls about me. I was bad-mouthed left and right. I remember once, she said into the phone, 'Well, he didn't kill anyone, did he?' That was it! End of conversation. [Von Anhalt's explanation that Zsa Zsa was fully aware of his criminal past, his bogus title, and seedy background.]
- I needed a door opener. It was a tool. This was a business decision - show business. [His explanation for why he used a German broker of nobility titles to purchase his title by having an elderly German princess adopt Frederic as an adult.]
- I wasn't nervous. Either it works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you go home. [In October 1982, Frederic donned a fake, German military uniform, rented a Rolls-Royce with student driver, and conned his way into a Holmby Hills party where he first met Zsa Zsa Gabor.]
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