Gabor to face prison term

Press, 26 October 1989, Page 8

Gabor to face prison term

NZPA-Reuter Beverly Hills Zsa Zsa Gabor threw a dinner party in a BeVerly Hills restaurant yesterday, just hours after being sentenced to three days in jail and fined SUSI2,OOO (SNZ2O,OOO) for slapping a Beverly Hills policeman. “She only drank mineral water,” said the head waiter at Giuseppe, Gabor’s favourite Beverly Hills restaurant, where she dined with her eighth husband, friends and lawyers on roast peppers and cold salmon. Her publicity agent said it was doubtful that she would appeal against her sentence. Earlier, Gabor had said she already had a designer dress in stripes picked out for her prison outfit

Throughout the sentencing by a municipal judge, Charles Rubin, Gabor smiled and whispered to her lawyer while the judge spoke. At one point Judge Rubin had to admonish her to listen. He had the last word, advising Gabor to see a psychiatrist “I have observed a hyper quality in Ms Gabor’s behaviour,” he said. He also ordered her to put her true age on her driver’s licence and serve 120 hours as a volunteer worker in a shelter for homeless women without talking to the news media about her work there. Gabor says she is aged 58 years old but is listed in reference books as 68. Most of the fine that Judge Rubin imposed will go to reimburse Beverly Hills police for the extraordinary extra expense it went through to investigate the case in the glare of national publicity and Gabor’s charges that she was mistreated by the officer she slapped. Judge Rubin accused her of hunting publicity throughout the trial and he was outraged that she made an advertisement showing herself, a policeman and a Rolls Royce. Gabor could be jailed for up to 18 months if she does not follow the terms of sentencing, the judge said. He placed her on probation for 24 months. Gabor was driving her white Rolls-Royce in Beverly Hills on June 14 when she was stopped by a motor-cycle policeman, Paul Kramer, for having an out-of-date registration plate.