Zsa Zsa Finds Judge Not Charitable

Fancy jewelry, elegant gowns and celebrity artwork that were on the auction block Friday night in Beverly Hills were upstaged by a bid for respectability by convicted cop-slapper Zsa Zsa Gabor.

The actress organized the auction at a glittery fund-raising dinner for charity at the Beverly Hilton despite a ruling by a Municipal Court judge that the event will not count toward the 180 hours of community service she must perform as part of her sentence for slapping Officer Paul Kramer last June 14.

Gabor proclaimed that the time she has been forced to work at a Venice shelter for homeless women and at a Los Angeles school for handicapped children “has been the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Wearing a pink Christian Dior gown and glittering jewelry, Gabor mingled with 240 friends who paid $125 each for the dinner and auction. Proceeds, expected to top $100,000, will be donated to the Low Income Elderly United Community Assistance Program, which operates the women’s shelter, she said.

Gabor said she does not care that Beverly Hills Municipal Judge Charles G. Rubin has prohibited her from counting time she spent organizing the auction toward her sentence.

“It doesn’t matter,” she said. “I’ve met these wonderful retarded children. There was a little boy who couldn’t talk but said, ‘I know you, you’re Zsa Zsa.’ That has had much more impact on me than the judge will ever have. . . . I am hooked on those children. Something good has come out of this.”

Gabor said she has worked 45 hours a week for the last three weeks at the McBride School. She said she will continue as a volunteer speech and dance teacher at the school this month. After a 15-day trip in early July to Germany with her husband, Prince Fredric Von Anhalt, she plans to report to jail to serve the three-day lockup portion of her sentence.

“I don’t even want him to know me anymore,” Gabor said of the judge. “I’m going to jail for him and work another 95 hours for him and then I’m going to say ‘goodby dear judge.’ ”

While Gabor was uncharacteristically quiet about Rubin, others at the auction were not.

Vera Davis, operator of the shelter, said she was “insulted” that Rubin had refused to count the charity auction as part of Gabor’s sentence.

Westside insurance executive Ron Gordon said he and his wife, Charmaine, went to the auction with 20 other couples who socialize with Gabor.

“This shows to me that she’s made the effort to serve her sentence,” Gordon said.