Bad Girl Update: Zsa Zsa Gabor and the Poisonous Néni

Just because nőnap is a relatively wholesome holiday doesn't mean that we are only going to celebrate fresh-faced and clean-living ladies. Because frankly, it takes all kind of nők to make a nők napja. Take, for example, Irénke néni ("Auntie Irene") of Nyírgyulaj (not pictured at right), who was recently acquitted of the rather un-ladylike crime of poisoning her husband, the late József M. According to tab champ Blikk, Irénke's 27-year marriage had been on a downward spiral for some time, and she and Józsi often quarreled. But instead of just sulking or moving out, she decided to take matters into her own hands, and on January 13th of last year cooked her husband a hearty meal of meat fried in a bread-crumb crust containing a dash of the deadly insecticide Thimet.

Unfortunately for Irénke, the fumes from the frying meat turned out to be almost as lethal as the meat itself, and after finishing dinner she had to be taken to the hospital, where she lingered for three weeks between life and death. But not as lethal as the meat, which Józsi ate the following day, and which killed him dead after 48 hours of what we can only imagine was a very serious case of heartburn. "I want to thank the court for the rightful verdict," Irénke said after her acquittal, which was apparently on the grounds that Józsi was a lout. "My husband and I didn't have such a bad life that I would want to poison him. Murder has never crossed my mind." Okey-dokey.

In other bad-girl news, ageless Hungarian Hollywood starlet and troublemaker Zsazsa Gábor (pictured left, after an earlier scrape with the American legal system) is $2 million richer, having successfully sued her former driver, who was also her hair stylist, for an accident he caused in November 2002. Apparently he drove her car into a tree, and she required several months of convalescence. In an interesting twist, Blikk writes, Zsazsa's husband, Perhapsburg Prince Frederik von Anhalt, will receive part of the money, having joined in the fun by suing their former employee for mental injuries. According to Prince Freddy, 88-year-old Zsazsa was so bitter after the accident she even tried to commit suicide, but apparently didn't succeed, proving how much of her Hungarian heritage she has lost over the decades.

Finally, in news bound to be of interest both to bad girls and bad boys, the Ministry of Interior wants to legalize prostitution. We'll say that again, just in case you weren't paying attention: The government wants to make prostitution legal. According to index.hu, the theory is that the currently "chaotic" situation would improve if hookers were registered, and the world's oldest profession taxed. Sounds like a good plan to us, though people used to say the same things about politicians. Meanwhile, if anyone looking for a hooker happens upon a cheerful-looking divorcee in Nyírgyulaj, remember, it's not yet legal, and make sure to take her out for dinner.