The eldest daughter of a jeweler, Jolie (1896–1997),[1] and a soldier, Vilmos Gábor (1881–1962), she was born in 1915 in Budapest.

[7][8][9] After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary with Sampaio's assistance, she was reportedly the mistress of a Spanish nobleman, José Luis de Vilallonga.

Within a year of her arrival she married an American citizen, William Rankin, and remained in the country.

Her husbands, in chronological order, were: Gabor died on June 20, 1997, five days before her 82nd birthday and two months after the death of her mother.

She was interred next to her mother in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.