Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties on Monday.

The actress, who celebrated her 99th birthday two days earlier, was admitted to hospital after being diagnosed with a lung infection.

The Hungarian Jew, famous for her role in Moulin Rouge and being a sex symbol in the 1950s, has been in declining health since a car crash in 2002 and has not been seen in public for a number of years. She was hospitalised in 2012 with a severe throat infection and had a leg amputated in 2011 after an infection that doctors were unable to cure.

Outside her acting career, Gabor is most famous for having nine husbands - including Hilton hotel founder Conrad Hilton - and for the jokes she made, inspired by her tumultuous love life. When asked, "How many husbands have you had?", she was famously quoted as responding, "You mean other than my own?"

Gabor emigrated to the United States in 1941. Her mother, Jolie Gabor, left Hungary in 1944 to escape the Nazis.