Zsa Zsa Ordered Jailed 72 Hrs. : Sentence: Actress also must carry out 120 hours of community service at a shelter for homeless women.

A judge today sentenced Zsa Zsa Gabor to three days in jail and 120 hours of community service at a shelter for homeless women for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer.

“If you strike a cop, you go to jail,” Municipal Judge Charles G. Rubin said in sentencing the Hungarian-born actress for battery on a police officer, driving without a valid driver’s license and having an open container of alcohol in her car.

“The law applies equally to everybody, whether they’re rich or poor and whether they’re famous or not,” Rubin said.

Rubin also fined Gabor $2,350 and told her to put her true age--believed to be 66--on her driver’s license.

During her 120 hours of community service in a shelter for homeless women, Gabor was ordered not to say anything to anyone about the case or give interviews. The judge asked reporters to stay away from her.

Earlier, Rubin denied a motion by Gabor’s new attorney, Harrison E. Bull, for a mistrial.

Bull then began calling character witnesses for Gabor, including charity fund-raiser and entertainment industry publicist Gloria Luchenbill.

Gabor listened to witnesses with her chin thrust up and at one point sprayed herself with a new dose of perfume.

Gabor arrived at court this morning in a black dress, stepping from a black Mercedes-Benz with her husband and telling about 100 reporters and camera crew members, “Of course, I’m nervous.”

She explained the dress by saying, “My stepfather just died,” referring to her mother’s third husband, Edmond de Szigethy, who died Sept. 30.

A jury convicted Gabor on Sept. 29 of battery on a police officer, driving without a valid driver’s license and having an open container of alcohol in her car. She was acquitted of failing to obey an officer.

The maximum possible sentence for the misdemeanor conviction was 18 months in prison and a $3,500 fine.

Dist. Atty. Ira S. Reiner had urged a 30-day jail sentence, a fine of more than $3,000 plus $14,000 to compensate the Beverly Hills Police Department for its costs. But Deputy Dist. Atty. Elden Fox had dismissed the idea of a jail term after her conviction, saying she was too old to serve time.

During the trial, Gabor told reporters that she was afraid to go to jail because jails are filled with lesbians.

She later apologized, saying: “I got letters from the lesbian and gay association. They are going to boycott me because I say there are lesbians in jail. Imagine a women’s jail, there must be lesbians. . . . Maybe I should become a lesbian. What do I know? I like men.”

The tempestuous Gabor slapped Officer Paul Kramer on June 14 after he stopped her white Rolls-Royce convertible on a busy street. The actress testified that she instinctively struck out after Kramer roughed her up.

Kramer overreacted, she said, and used undue force in arresting her.