Jolie Gabor
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| Born |
Janka Tilleman September 30, 1896 Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | April 1, 1997 (aged 100) Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Jewelry entrepreneur, memoirist, socialite |
| Spouse(s) | Vilmos Gábor (1914-1939; divorced); 3 children Howard Peter Christman (1947-1948; divorced) Count Odon Szigethy (1957-1989; his death) |
| Children |
Magda Gabor Zsa Zsa Gabor Eva Gabor |
| Relatives | Constance Francesca Hilton (granddaughter) |
Jolie Gabor, Countess de Szigethy (September 30, 1896 – April 1, 1997) was a Hungarian-born American socialite known as the mother of actresses and socialites Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor.
Jolie Gabor was born Janka Tilleman on September 30, 1896, in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Her parents were Jona Hersch Tilleman and Chawe Feige Tilleman (née Reinharz, Reinharcz, or Reinhartz), both born of Jewish ancestry in Galicia, then part of the Austrian Empire, near present-day Poland and Ukraine. The Tillemans were jewelers who owned a jewelry shop known as "The Diamond House". The couple changed their forenames to Josef and Franceska. The Tilleman family's Jewish descent was also cited by a surgeon, Dr. Lazslo Tauber, also Jewish, and a family friend and neighbor of the Gabors in Budapest. Following the death of Josef Tilleman, his widow, Franceska, married a medical doctor and general physician, Dr. Miksa Kende.
Addressing her birthname, usually reserved for Hungarian males, Gabor stated, "My parents were so eager to have a son they named me Jancsi, which translated comes out Little John or Johnny". Her birth certificate, however, indicates her birth name was "Janka". The third of five surviving children, Gabor's siblings consisted of three sisters and one brother: Dora, Eugénia, Rozália, and Sebestyén (or Sebastian). Another sister died in infancy. While there is little information available on Jolie's sisters,this extract indicates they survived the war. Her sister, Rozália (Mrs. Emanuel Reiss), emigrated to Australia with her husband in 1956, where she died in 1974.
Jolie Gabor was the aunt of Annette Tilleman (b. 1931), daughter of Jolie's brother Sebastian Tilleman and wife of Hungarian-American U.S. Representative Tom Lantos. Sebastian and his mother, Franceska, were killed during a bombing raid on Budapest during World War II. The family of Gabor's mother, the Reinherzes, had established jewelry shops in Vienna; her mother's uncle helped the Tillemans open their jewelry business, "The Diamond House", located at 54 54 Rákóczi utca in Budapest.
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