Zsa Zsa Spends Her First Night in Jail With Few Complaints

Zsa Zsa Gabor, who left her luxurious hilltop estate in Bel-Air for a tiny, one-room jail cell in El Segundo, woke up in the slammer Saturday morning with few complaints--or so her jailers say.

“The worst you could get out of her was that the food wasn’t that great,” El Segundo Police Sgt. Byron Sumrow said after Gabor’s first night in jail for slapping a Beverly Hills motorcycle officer. “She said the food wasn’t the greatest and I can agree with her on that.”

The tempestuous actress began the three-day sentence on Friday after deciding to drop her legal appeal. She is scheduled to be released Monday afternoon.

Gabor complained little to jailers in the small, 17-bed city facility, where she arranged to serve her sentence in a cell that can be rented for $85 a night. It was not exactly the Waldorf--an 8-by-10-foot enclosure with only a metal-frame bed, a toilet and sink--but Gabor held her tongue even when a particularly unruly prisoner was dragged in late Friday, according to Sumrow.

“The guy was raising a lot of Cain, but she never said anything,” the police sergeant said.

Breakfast was the same as every prisoner gets--no menu.

“It’s standard county issue--a TV-type frozen breakfast (of) hash browns, toast and scrambled eggs,” Sumrow said. Lunch was a cold sandwich and coffee. For dinner, the one-time glamour queen was offered Salisbury steak, peas and potatoes, a roll with butter and choice of coffee or water.

Gabor’s husband, Prince Frederick Von Anhalt of Germany, said her biggest complaint was the chilly night air. After talking to her Saturday morning by phone, Von Anhalt showed up for visiting hours with silk pillows and extra covers, he said.

“She complained she was freezing last night,” Von Anhalt said at a press conference Saturday afternoon. “She had only two very thin blankets and was freezing.

Von Anhalt downplayed Gabor’s dislike for the food, saying, “It’s not her favorite food, (but) she is on a diet anyway, so she’s not going to eat that much.” Still, he augmented his care package to her with an undisclosed amount of Diet Pepsi and Dreyer’s Grand Light ice cream.

Gabor, who had been stopped for a routine traffic violation before getting into an argument and slapping Beverly Hills police officer Paul Kramer, was sentenced last fall and also ordered by Municipal Judge Charles G. Rubin to perform community service and pay $12,937 in fines and restitution.

“It was an expensive slap,” Von Anhalt said.