"...He was born the son of a policeman from Kreuznach in Germany, but joined the nobility in 1980, at the age of 37, when Princess Marie-Auguste von Anhalt, the ex-wife of Prince Joachim of Prussia, the Kaiser's son, adopted him, following the death of her own son (a friend of Frederic's) on the polo circuit.

In 1984, on holiday in Los Angeles, he gatecrashed a celebrity party and bumped into Hungarian-born Gabor. Sparks flew. Two years later, he became her ninth husband (he also had a track record: she was his seventh wife). They have lived together, as members of Hollywood's affluent old guard, ever since.

As marriages go, it has had ups and downs. A few years back, Prince Frederic was found by LA police in his Rolls-Royce, completely naked. He claimed to have been robbed at gunpoint by three attractive women, who had stolen his clothes and wallet and left him handcuffed to the steering wheel. Police never established the exact circumstances in which Frederic had picked up the three mysterious strangers. No arrests were ever made. But not long after the incident he was appointed an official celebrity spokesman for Viagra, a supply of which was found in the car.

In 2007, after the death of the wealthy former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, Frederic claimed he had pursued a decade-long affair with her. He could even be the father of the daughter who was in line to inherit her fortune, he said. But that was disproved by a DNA test.

Asked about these and other scandals, together with his reputation as one of old Hollywood's most legendary lotharios, Frederic tells me that his lifelong marital infidelity has always been condoned by his wife, whom he describes, with an admirable degree of understatement, as "not the jealous type."..."


From an article on Prince Frederick who has recently opened his campaign to be elected Governor of California on a platform, inter alia, to legalize prostitution, Cuban cigars, and marijuana to boost tax revenues.