Zsa Zsa Gabor  turns 96 years old next month and is in seriously declining health. She lives in a Bel Air mansion with her husband of thirty years, “Prince” Frederic von Anhalt. The house doubled as the home of Alan Arkin’s producer character in “Argo,” which was shot there nearly two years ago.

Zsa Zsa, then 94, was unaware of what was going on. But Frederic, who often appears on TMZ.com, is a practical man. Gabor’s healthcare is expensive. None of the nurses or aides or anything else is covered by insurance. Income is always welcome.Recently he rented the Bel Air mansion out to Michael Douglas’s HBO movie about Liberace called “Beyond the Candelabra.”

I met Frederic last week at Universal Pictures party for “Les Miserables.” He is a handsome and fit 70 year old with an extremely nice wardrobe. He drives a Rolls Royce convertible. When someone told me he was there at Spago, I imagined Claus von Bulow. But he’s far from that. Even with his many tabloid stories trailing after him, Frederic seemed pretty reasonable.

So what’s happening with Zsa Zsa? Once the most glamorous woman in the world, the last surviving of the three Gabors made a very good second marriage when she walked down the aisle in 1942 with hotel empire builder Conrad Hilton. They were married five years, but that wedding held her in good stead through the rest of her life– and several more marriages. Zsa Zsa and Hilton had one daughter, Francesca, now 65, with whom she has had several legal skirmishes over the years.

Right now, Frederic says, Francesca is only allowed supervised visits with Zsa Zsa. Frederic maintains contact with a couple of Hiltons–namely Kathy, who is married to Rick, and mother of Paris and Nicky; and Baron, Francesca’s half brother. Francesca, he says, is cut off from the Hiltons entirely. Frederic says, however, that Francesca is left money in Zsa Zsa’s estate. Time will tell if that’s accurate.

How much money is that? It’s hard to say. At one time, Zsa Zsa’s worth was listed as $40 million. But the house is on the market for $14 million, down from a $28 million listing. And Frederic was said to be near foreclosure in June 2012 until an anonymous donor bailed him out.

Zsa Zsa, once the most glamorous woman on the planet, now sleeps most of the day. She rarely speaks. Frederic says he does the night shift with her, from midnight to 8am. At all other times, she has a nurse with her. She also has a court appointed lawyer. Frederic is quick to say he’s being monitored by the courts and the press. But frankly, there’s not much to watch. Zsa Zsa is just waiting, quietly, for the end. You can’t time it.

“Liz Taylor was a great friend,” Frederic tells me. “She used to come over in her wheelchair and talk to Zsa Zsa.” Now, all of her contemporaries are gone. While Zsa Zsa sleeps, Prince Frederic goes out. He’s made friends with a financial reporter about 15 years his junior, from the local news radio. During the early evening, Frederic is social. (His personal life, I didn’t ask.) Then he’s home in time to take care of Zsa Zsa.

How did they meet? He arrived in Los Angeles in 1982, he was 39 years old. He wanted to rub elbows with the wealthy Hollywood set. Someone invited him to a party with stars, he says. “I put on my army uniform, with lots of medals. I put on a big show.” At the party he met Zsa Zsa and that was it. She was 70, and had had countless marriages including the famous one to Conrad Hilton. The Prince’s pre-Zsa Zsa life is still unclear. He says he has children in Europe, and was married.

According to wikipedia, Frederic’s birth name is Robert Hans Lichtenberg. He was adopted at age 36 by a member of the German aristocracy and added the name “Prinz.” Frederic got some kind of title, which he has bequeathed to several has legally adopted several adult men over the years, bestowing them with the last name “Prinz von Anhalt.”

Anyway, he and  Gabor married right away. The rest is history. Ten years ago they were in a car accident. In recent years Gabor developed a clot in her leg, which was eventually amputated. She’s had bouts of pneumonia and almost died. But she’s always rallied. Frederic says he keeps her spirits up by playing her old movies in the DVD player, and saying it’s TV. “She doesn’t know, but it makes her smile.”

By the time the Golden Globes were over, the whole Beverly Hilton was bursting to party. On the 6th floor of the Hilton leading to the roof, I was nearly run over by the cast of “Les Miserables,” all of whom were in high spirits after their big wins in the Comedy/Musical category. Anne Hathaway led the charge down a narrow passage into the party carrying her Globe and smiling wildly. Director Tom Hooper and star Hugh Jackman were next, followed by co-stars Eddie Redmayne and Amanda Seyfried, as well as Sacha Baron Cohen with wife Isla Fisher.

“Les Miz” is a coup now for Universal Pictures chief Ron Meyer and his lieutenants Donna Langley and Adam Fogelson. It’s been a long time since Universal won anything, and now they can boast of a $200 million plus box office plus lots of shiny gold statues. For Hooper it’s also a real vindication after some tough reviews and a snub by the Academy Awards. The director of “The King’s Speech” looked a little exhausted at this point. “It’s been a long haul,” he said, recalling the very first screening on November 24th at Lincoln Center. Meanwhile, the Universal party was also home to “Zero Dark Thirty” director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, who lost the Globes but finished their first wide release weekend at number 1. Today they head to London to launch “Zero Dark Thirty” in the U.K. Even though Bigelow makes serious movies, she has a good sense of humor. I asked how she liked Tina Fey’s joke about the “torture” of being married once to “Titanic” director James Cameron. It was the hit of the night. “It was very funny,” Bigelow conceded.

For a second Hugh Jackman showed us his Globe statue and said, “This is so great I can’t tell you.” And then we headed down to Club 55 in the basement of the Hilton, where HBO was literally teeming with celebrities from the casts of “Girls” and “The Newsroom” to miscellaneous stars like Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt to Jeff Garlin of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Steve Buscemi of “Boardwalk Empire.”

Jeff Daniels, his wife, Kathleen, Hollywood legend Jane Fonda and boyfriend Richard Perry (famed record producer of hits by Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, and Ringo Starr) and Sam Waterston were all having a fine time, while elsewhere a stunning  Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were chatting with everyone. Kathleen Daniels  was busy telling Jane Fonda all about her family’s adventures renting a house in the Hollywood Hills after leaving their spacious abode in Michigan. Practical Fonda said, “I could live anywhere. When I was a girl we lived on a ranch and I rode a horse to school.”

But it was the “Girls” group that was causing the most excitement as literally everyone was climbing around to meet Lena Dunham, who won Best Actress in a Comedy and Best Comedy. Before “Girls” Dunham had a hit indie film called “Tiny Furniture.” That’s how it all started. She told me she’d like to do another film as soon as she can take a break from “Girls.” And she had high compliments for Adam Driver, who plays her boyfriend and also has a small part in “Lincoln.”

And Jeff Garlin told me he’s filming a stand up comedy special for Netflix in March, and waiting for Larry David to start another season of “Curb.” And Jon Hamm – who just finished the sixth episode of the sixth season of “Mad Men” – said Larry’s upcoming HBO movie—in which Hamm is featured—is hilarious. Hamm has one more season of ”Mad Men” to go before he takes off as a leading man in movies. And Westfeldt, always a delight, is busy, she told me, working on plays right now. Let’s hope she gets back to movies soon. Her “Friends with Kids” was a pretty terrific indie comedy last season.

Some other stars at the HBO party included Sean “P Diddy” Combs who was not his usual jovial self, and Mel Gibson, who remains a pariah despite attempts to seem human last night.