As 2016 winds down, the entertainment community has lost yet another beloved icon.Zsa Zsa Gabor, who became more famous for her “darling” catch phrase and her multiple marriages than her actual film career,passed awayat the age of 99. Early reports reveal that the celebrity suffered from an apparent heart attack, and was rushed to an unspecified hospital where she was pronounced dead.Zsa Zsa Gabor’s death comes just two months before she would have celebrated her 100th birthday.

TMZwas the first to report on theactress' death, which comes after suffering from a number of ailments over the past few years. Her husbandFrederic Prinz Von Anhaltwould reportedly throw annual birthday parties for his wife over the past few years, but his wife was so sick during these parties that visitors weren’t even allowed in her bedroom to see her. In 2011, she had her right leg partially amputated after it became infected, and in 2002, she was in a car accident when the car she was riding in struck a utility pole in West Hollywood, California. There were reports that the actress, then 85 years old, had slipped into a coma, but those reports were proved false.

Zsa Zsa Gaborwas born Sári Gabor in Budapest, Hungary, named after Hungarian actressSari Fedak. Her parents were both from Jewish families, andZsa Zsastudied at a Swiss boarding school in the 1930s, before following her sisterEva Gaborto Hollywood in the 1930s. Her motherJolie Gabormanaged to escape from Nazi-occupied Budapest in the 1940s, also settling in the U.S. Thelate actressmade her feature film debut in 1952’sLovely to Look At, alongsideKathryn GraysonandRed Skelton, followed byWe’re Not MarriedwithGinger Rogers, also debuting in 1952. That year also brought her first starring role inMoulin RougealongsideJose Ferrer, with rumors spreading that she had been given a hard time by directorJohn Huston. AfterMoulin Rouge!, she started going back to supporting roles in films likeLili(1953),3 Ring Circus(1954),Death of a Scoundrel(1956) andThe Man Who Wouldn’t Talk(1958).

She then started appearing in films as herself, such as 1960’sPepeand 1967’sJack of Diamonds, while also playing Minerva in two episodes of the 1960sBatmanTV series. Thebeloved celebrity’s fame also started to grow through numerous appearances onThe Tonight Show, starting with hostJack Paarfrom 1958-1962, where she made 20 appearances, and another 16 appearances for hostJohnny Carsonbetween 1963 and 1970. Among these appearances is a famous episode in 1964 where she ripped offJohnny Carson’s pants during a sketch. She continued to appear in other films and TV shows as herself throughout the 1980s, including an episode ofKnots Landing,A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriorsand the TV movieChristmas at Pee Wee’s Playhouse.

Her appearance in the 1991 comedy sequelThe Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fearpoked fun at a 1990 incident which saw her do time in jail. After a June 1990 incident where she slapped a Los Angeles cop, when she didn’t know her license tags were expired, she served three days in jail, and was sentenced to complete 120 hours of community service. Her fame grew even more after that incident, playing herself in herfinal filmand TV appearances in the 1990s,The Beverly Hillbilliesmovie in 1993, episodes ofEmpty NestandCybilin 1994 and 1995, andA Very Brady Sequelin 1996. She received a lifetime achievement awards from the Cinerockom International film Festival Awards in 2015.Zsa Zsa Gaboris survived by her ninth and final husband,Frédéric von Anhalt, who celebrated their 30th Anniversary earlier this year. Among her other husbands wereConrad Hilton, the grandfather ofParis HiltonandGeorge Sanders.