14 Facts About Jolie Gabor

Jolie Gabor's parents were Jona Hersch Tilleman and Chawe Feige Tilleman ; both of Jolie's parents were of Galician Jewish ancestry.

The Reinharz family of Jolie Gabor's mother had established jewelry shops in Vienna; her mother's uncle helped the Tillemans open their jewelry business, "The Diamond House", located at Rakoczi utca 54.

The third of five surviving children, Jolie Gabor's siblings comprised three sisters and one brother: Dora, Eugenia, Rozalia, and Sebestyen.

Author Dominick Dunne stated, in 1995, that Jolie Gabor was believed to be 109, which would mean a birth year of approximately 1886.

Jolie Gabor was forced to close the stores when Hungary was occupied by the Germans, at which time she and other family members fled to Portugal.

Jolie Gabor arrived in the United States on December 30,1945, aged 49.

Jolie Gabor opened a successful costume jewelry business in New York City in 1946, with $7,200 borrowed from her daughters.

Jolie Gabor established a branch of the firm in Palm Springs, California.

In 1975, almost 80 years old, Jolie Gabor signed with the Keene Lecture Bureau as an inspirational speaker.

Jolie Gabor toured the country speaking about the relationship between beauty and female empowerment.

Jolie Gabor is described, in league with her three very famous daughters and her influence upon them, by Darwin Porter in his award-winning biography, Those Glamorous Gabors, Bombshells from Budapest.

Jolie Gabor was preceded in death by her youngest daughter, Eva, although she apparently was never told of Eva's death.

Jolie Gabor died less than two years later, in Palm Springs, California, of natural causes on April 1,1997, at age 100.

Jolie Gabor had one grandchild, Francesca Hilton, who died in 2015.