Zsa Zsa Keeps Mum About Slapping Trial

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, entering her second week of trial for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer, showed a new face to the media on Monday by refusing to comment on the case and, at one point, slipping out a back door of Beverly Hills Municipal Court to avoid television cameras.

Gabor had been warned by the presiding judge on Friday not to make statements about the case to the press. On Monday, she repeatedly answered “no comment” to questions and said her friends were trying to keep her out of trouble.

“(Author) Sidney Sheldon says he’s going to buy me a T-shirt: ‘No Comment,’ ” she said.

Testimony in the trial’s sixth day included witnesses to portions of Gabor’s arrest in June. She is accused of striking the officer who stopped her $215,000 Rolls Royce after seeing expired registration tags.

One witness, motorist Maureen Cassidy, appeared to contradict Gabor’s claim that she was brusquely pulled from the Rolls before slapping the officer and being handcuffed. According to Cassidy, Gabor appeared to open her own car door to step out without being touched by Officer Paul Kramer.