Zsa Zsa ‘Doesn’t Fool Around’: She’ll Appeal, Serve Jail Time Too

Zsa Zsa Gabor, still righteously defending her innocence, plans to appeal her cop-slapping conviction but will serve her three-day jail sentence and perform 120 hours of community service anyway just to prove a point, her husband said Thursday.

“We are going to appeal,” Prince Frederick von Anhalt, Gabor’s eighth husband, said in an interview two days after the actress was sentenced at Beverly Hills Municipal Court. “But . . . she’s also going to serve three days in jail just to show the public that she doesn’t fool around with anything.

“She really would love to go to jail, you know, to see what’s going on--if people get treated well in jail. She wants to know how people live in jail, how the food is and everything. She wants to have that experience.”

Gabor, who has not publicly discussed her legal plans, left early Thursday for New York to appear on the “Phil Donahue Show,” Von Anhalt said. But before departing, the nearly 70-year-old actress talked about the jail sentence with her husband and made it clear she will go behind bars no matter what and will expect no special treatment once that steel door clangs shut, Von Anhalt added.

“She wants the (jail) uniforms. She wants everything,” he said. “She doesn’t want special food. She wants the food they get in prison. If she gets specially treated, she doesn’t get (a realistic) experience.”

As part of her sentence for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle Officer Paul Kramer on June 14, Gabor was ordered to pay $12,937 in fines and restitution, to perform community service at a Los Angeles-area center for homeless women and to undergo psychiatric evaluation. Her three-day jail term can be served at the city or county jail of her choice before the end of the year, Municipal Judge Charles G. Rubin ordered.

Gabor, who regularly does charity work, is eager to perform the community service duties, Von Anhalt said. Although she has yet to decide where or when she will enter jail, she probably will serve the time soon, he added.

Meanwhile, the actress will file an appeal in hopes of clearing her name and avoiding the fines, her husband said.

Gabor spent the day after her sentencing taping an interview for the television show “A Current Affair,” in which she called for an apology from the judge and “all of Beverly Hills.” During a brief break in the filming, she also referred to herself--again--as a symbol for battered women everywhere.

“I’m going to fight as long as I live for that,” she said.

Gabor expressed particular outrage at Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner, who asked for a 30-day jail sentence. A week after her arrest, Gabor said, she sat with Reiner at a dinner party and showed him the bruises inflicted by Kramer’s handcuffs. Reiner told her not to worry about the arrest, that it was nothing, according to Gabor.

Von Anhalt said he overhead part of the conversation.

“He said, ‘Sweetheart’--and that’s exactly what he said--’Sweetheart, don’t worry, we’ll take care of that,’ ” Von Anhalt recalled, quoting Reiner. “ ‘If that policeman did that to you, he’s going to get punished.’

“Then we stood up after dinner, and he . . . said, ‘Ms. Gabor, could you do me one big favor? I would love to have a photograph with you.’ ”

Reiner, considered a likely candidate for state attorney general, acknowledged sitting with Gabor at the party, thrown at the Beverly Hills home of developer Stanley Black, but denied talking with her about the arrest or the pending trial.

“There was no discussion whatsoever,” he said. “Not a syllable . . . about the trial, about the troubles, about anything in the world.”

At a press conference Tuesday, Reiner predicted that Gabor would use her celebrity status to make a farce of her community service work, playing “Marie Antoinette to these homeless women.”

Gabor responded: “He should know that Marie Antoinette also gets cake for the people. He is a bigmouthed man who doesn’t do his homework. . . . Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let the people eat cake.’ He (Reiner) should give the homeless cake.”