Angry Zsa Zsa Wants Car, Brooch, Art Back

A still-boiling Zsa Zsa Gabor said Thursday she wants Beverly Hills police to return her diamond brooch and a picture as well as the valuable Rolls-Royce that was impounded when she was arrested after allegedly slapping the face of a motorcycle officer.

The Hungarian-born actress, wearing an aqua pants suit with a plunging neckline, held a news conference at her Bel-Air home to repeat her complaint that the officer treated her brutally and cursed her when he pulled her over on La Cienega Boulevard on Wednesday afternoon.

“I would like my car back. And I would like my picture and my brooch back,” Gabor said.

Her lawyer, Dale Gribow, said she assumed the brooch was pulled off in the struggle. The picture was in the car.

‘Protective Custody’

Beverly Hills traffic Lt. James E. Smith, however, said he did not know anything about a missing brooch. As for the picture, which he said he believed was a print, “that’s in our protective custody.”

Smith reported Wednesday that the officer, whom he would not identify, stopped Gabor’s Rolls-Royce because of an out-of-date license plate tag, only to discover that her driver’s license also had expired. While the officer was checking on her by radio, Smith said, the actress suddenly drove off and had to be stopped again a short distance away.

Gabor said Thursday that she asked if she could leave and that the officer told her “. . . off.”

“I thought in America that meant to leave,” she said.

Gribow said it had not yet been decided whether to sue. The attorney said he was searching for witnesses.

Marilyn Jenett, a special events location finder, told The Times she saw the incident but did not realize at the time that the woman was Gabor. “She was not fighting,” Jenett said. “The policeman had her bent over the trunk of her car like some kind of criminal.”

During her news conference, the actress displayed bruises on her left wrist and right arm she claimed resulted from Wednesday’s incident.

“I want that gorgeous policeman to know that he can’t manhandle women,” Gabor said. “I’m standing up for the battered women of America.”