Later Career
Since the 1990s, she has concentrated more on painting than on acting. As an actress, she worked in half a dozen countries learning the languages (she speaks seven languages) and storing up images which she later expressed on canvas. Her artwork shows a strong influence from Marc Chagall. Sommer had a long-running feud with Zsa Zsa Gabor that began in 1984 when both appeared on Circus of the Stars and escalated into a multi-million dollar libel suit by 1993.
In 2001, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.
She now lives in Los Angeles, California and has no children.
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