On June 29, 1989, movie actress Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped a Beverly Hills motor cycle police officer in the face after he pulled her over in her Rolls Royce Corniche. The cop had asked her to produce her license and registration which were expired and was checking her priors when she drove off. He gave chase and pulled her over again. This time he asked her to get out of the car and the 72-year-old actress came out swinging, slapping the officer in the face and knocking his regulation sunglasses to the ground.

Gabor, pictured in police mugshot above, was taken to Beverly Hills police station and booked on five charges: battery against an officer; disobeying an officer; driving without a registration; driving without a license; driving with an open container of alcohol (a silver flash of bourbon was found in her car. Zsa Zsa said the officer had handcuffed her so tightly that her wrists were bruised so severely she was unable to attend a charity event that evening. It was later discovered she had indeed renewed her registration. The flask turned out to be the property of her eighth husband, Prince Frederick von Anhalt.

Miss Gabor told reporters afterwards that her police experience "was like Nazi Germany." She said in a magazine interview about the arresting officer, "you should have seen the hatred in his eyes." As for slapping the officer, she quipped, "I have a Hungarian temper."

Gabor was sentenced to seventy-two hours in jail, one-hundred-and-twenty hours of community service at a women's shelter, and $13,000 in court costs. The event was later parodied in the 1993 movie, "The Beverly Hillbillies."