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Jolie Gabor de Szigethy (September 30, 1896 – April 1, 1997) was a Hungarian-born American socialite, jeweller and memoirist, best known as the mother of actresses and socialites Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor. ==Family== Born as Janka Tilleman〔Also spelled Tillemann by other branches of the family, i.e. Annette Tillemann Lantos.〕in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (present-day Budapest, Hungary), the youngest daughter and third of four children, born to a Jewish couple, Jona Harsch Tilleman, who later took the name "Josef", and his wife, Chane Faige (née Reinherz or Reinhartz), who later adapted the name "Franceska", both of whom were born in Galicia. The Tillemans were prosperous jewelers who owned a jewelry shop known as "The Diamond House".〔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, in ''Forbes Magazine'', volume 134, October 1984, p. 40.〕 After the death of Jona Tilleman, Franceska briefly remarried, to Dr Miksa Kende, a medical doctor and general physician.〔Dr Kende (Jolie's stepfather)'s name and the correct spelling of his surname cited in ''Em lékkönyv a Királyi magyar természettudományi társulat'' (''Magyar Természettudományi Társulat'', 1892), p. 792〕 Gabor’s friend, Cindy Adams, who helped with Jolie's memoirs, once recalled one of Eva Gabor's weddings, at which the bride wore a cross, ''"They would lie about everything ... When I wrote my book about Jolie, Eva was getting married to her 44th husband, and the wedding gown was very décolleté. Between the fleshly hills of Gabor was a cross larger than St. Peter's Basilica. The Gabors were Jewish, so I said to Jolie, 'What's with the goddamn cross?' Jolie said, 'Eva's new about-to-be-husband hates the Jews, so in this book you make us Catholic.' They have always lived with no reality; there was never any truth to anything."'' Jolie's purported birthname "Jancsi" is usually used for males in Hungary: "My parents were so eager to have a son they named me Jancsi, which translated comes out Little John or Johnny", she would claim later in life,〔''Jolie Gabor'', by Jolie Gabor as told to Cindy Adams, Mason Charter, 1975, p. 3〕 although her birth certificate indicates her birth name was Janka. She had two elder sisters, Zseni ("Janette") and Dora; a younger sister, Rozalie ("Rozsika"), and a younger brother, Sebastian. The fate of her three sisters remains unclear, although (this extract ) seems to indicate that they survived the war.〔Jolie Gabor's name on a ship manifest in 1945 en route to the United States lists her as "Johanna Gabor".〕〔Elder sisters cited in ''Jolie Gabor'' as told to Cindy Adams, Mason Charter, 1975, p. 3〕〔Jolie's brother, Sebastian Tilleman, was referenced in ''Zsa Zsa Gábor: my story, written for me by Gerold Frank'', World Publishing Co., 1960〕 Jolie was an aunt to Annette Tilleman, wife of Hungarian-American congressman and Holocaust survivor Tom Lantos. Annette was the daughter of Sebastian Tilleman, Jolie's only brother — who was killed in a bombing raid during World War II, along with their mother.〔''The Jews of Capitol Hill'' by Kurt F. Stone (Scarecrow Press, 2010, p. 371) states that Annette Tillemann Lantos is a first cousin of the Gabor sisters, which would make her Jolie Gabor's niece. Annette Lantos's father, Sebastian, was Jolie's only male sibling. Annette's mother was Mary (née Seidner) Tillemann.〕 The Reinherzes, had established jewelry shops in Vienna, and an uncle of Franceska helped the Tillemans open "The Diamond House", located at 54 54 Rákóczi utca.〔''Jolie Gabor'', by Jolie Gabor as told to Cindy Adams, Mason Charter, 1975, p. 4〕〔〔In her own memoirs Zsa Zsa Gabor uses the spelling ''Franceska''.〕 Gabor claimed to have been born in 1900 and once jokingly said she had lied so much about her age she didn't remember her actual birth date.〔Jolie Gabor gives Tilleman as her maiden name in her autobiography, co-authored by Cindy Adams, using it as a chapter heading on page 23; she gives her mother's maiden name as Reinherz. And the review by ''Publishers Weekly'' of the memoirs enthused that ''"Jolie Gabor, née Jancsi Tilleman, fills every page of this zany life story with her Hungarian ebullience."''〕〔(Social Security Death Index entry under the name JOLIE DESZIGETHY ), ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com; accessed February 28, 2014.〕 Her obituary in ''The New York Times'' gave a birth year of 1900. On a passenger manifest dated December 30, 1945, Gabor gave her age as 45 years and two months, which would make her year of birth 1900; however this was fudged by four years as her 1896 birth certificate confirms.〔According to December 30, 1945 manifest, accessed on (Ancestry.com (December 30, 2011) ), a ''Johanna Gabor'' arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Estoril, Portugal claiming to be 45 years old.〕 Published accounts of her third marriage, in 1957, have Gabor stating her age as 54, which would mean a virtually impossible birth year of 1903. (Her first marriage took place in 1914, and her first child Magda was born in 1915.) Author Dominick Dunne stated, in 1995, perhaps in jest, that Jolie Gabor was believed to be 109, which would mean a birth year of approximately 1886.〔Dominick Dunne, "The Two Faces of O.J.", ''Vanity Fair'', November 1995, pp. 124-.〕 The 1987 edition of ''Biographical Dictionary'', however, cites Jolie Gabor's birthdate as September 29, 1896, as does the 1959 ''International Celebrity Register''.〔''Biography Almanac'' (Gale Research, 1987), pg. 2366〕〔Cleveland Amory, ''International Celebrity Register'' (Celebrity Register, 1959), p. 277〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jolie Gabor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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