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Zsa Zsa Gabor to Have Leg Amputated

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Partial removal due to gangrene.

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Poor Zsa Zsa: Doctors are worried that the 93-year-old actress will die if they don't amputate part of her leg, where a lesion has grown gangrenous. The amputation will likely be below the knee. Gabor, a Hungarian-born sex symbol of the 1950s and '60s, is already paralyzed from a 2002 car accident, and she suffered a stroke in 2005. She retreated from the spotlight after the accident, hating to be photographed in a wheelchair and wanting people to remember her in her prime.

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