HEIR, APPARENTLY: Zsa Zsa Gabor’s widower adopts 27-year-old man to be eventual caretaker

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Zsa Zsa Gabor’s widower, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, legally adopted a grown man to be his heir and take care of him as he gets older.

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The 78-year-old, who himself was adopted by German princess Marie Auguste von Anhalt – hence his royal title.

“I made a tool out of the title,” von Anhalt told the New York Post . “I would like to adopt somebody and give him the tool. In America, it works. People want to know who you are and that is how they judge you.”

Enter Kevin Feucht, 27, who has known his adopted father for seven years.

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“My dad is a friend of Frederic and he told me that I could stay at Frederic’s house,” he said. “Frederic and I agreed that if I help around the place, cook for him, work with him on the computer, make sure his bills get paid – I got some of them lowered – and cook for him sometimes, I can stay.”

It was a match made in, er, heaven?

“He has a new birth certificate and I am his official father,” said von Anhalt. “His father and I are still friends. His mother and father are both fine with it.”

According to Feucht, “Frederic is in a situation and at an age where he needs more and more help.”

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He continued: ““Also, he built such a great career with Zsa Zsa. If nobody takes on the legacy, it all dies. I offer a lot of knowledge. I am eager to build something big and make it bigger. I want to make a movie or do a book about Zsa Zsa. I want to keep the legacy alive.”

In 1986, von Anhalt became the ninth husband of Gabor – who was his seventh wife – and they were together until her death at the age of 99 in 2016.

“I think it was an arrangement of mutual convenience,” Gabor’s former head of security, James M. Pembroke, told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018.

“She knew he was gay. Everyone around them knew it was a joke, that he wasn’t a prince,” Pembroke said of the Hungarian socialite and actress. “But she was also difficult and just happy, at that age, to find someone who would be with her, who she could use as a prop.”