Magda Gabor dies aged 78

Magda Gabor. Photo courtesy Find A Grave

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Magda Gabor, sister of actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and the late Eva Gabor, died Friday of kidney failure, a spokeswoman said. She was 78.

Magda Gabor, eldest of the Hungarian sisters, died at Eisenhower Medical Center, said Miriam Levin, a publicist for Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Gabor matriarch Jolie Gabor died on April — at the same hospital. She was 97.

The family began emigrating to the United States in the 1930s. By the 1950s, Eva and Zsa Zsa had achieved international celebrity, while their mother was known as one of the movie world's social matrons.

Magda avoided the glare of show business. She lived in Palm Springs.

Eva Gabor died from a respiratory illness in 1995.

First published at New Bedford Standard Times.