Background
The eldest daughter of a jeweler, Jolie (died 1 April 1997), and a soldier, Vilmos Gábor (1884-1962), she was born in 1915 in Budapest. Of Jewish descent, she is listed in Hungary: Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives, under her first married name, as Magda Bychowsky. She stood 5'6" tall with red hair and gray eyes.
During World War II, Gabor was reported to have been the fiancée of the Portuguese ambassador to Hungary, Dr. Carlos Almeida Afonseca de Sampayo Garrido; another source claims she was his mistress and another claims she was his aide. After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and, with Sampayo's assistance, she was reportedly the mistress of a Spanish nobleman, José Luis de Vilallonga.
Gabor arrived in the United States in February 1946, from Natal, Brazil, intending to stay in the country for one year and apparently return to Lisbon, Portugal, where she was living. However, within a year of her arrival she married an American (see below) and remained in the country.
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