{"id":4787,"date":"2010-08-15T23:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T23:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/08\/zsa-zsa-asks-for-last-rites.html"},"modified":"2010-08-15T23:17:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T23:17:40","slug":"zsa-zsa-asks-for-last-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/08\/zsa-zsa-asks-for-last-rites.html","title":{"rendered":"Zsa Zsa asks for last rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The woman with the iconic first name appears to be fading fast.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/omg.yahoo.com\/news\/zsa-zsa-gabor-asks-for-last-rites\/45661\">Reuters: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/zgabor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zgabor.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/zgabor-thumb-180x240-17277.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/span>Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, a fixture in Hollywood for six decades, asked that a priest read her the last rites on Sunday, following hospitalization two days earlier due to complications from hip surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 93-year-old Gabor, whose string of movies, television shows and wealthy husbands dates to the 1950s, was visited by a priest at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her husband Frederick Prinz von Anhalt, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Gabor was able to speak &#8220;very little,&#8221; though she was conscious, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gabor was admitted on Friday to the hospital to treat two blood clots, only two days after being released for hip replacement surgery. 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