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Claus von Bülow
Danish-British socialite
Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg; 11 August 1926 – 25 May 2019) was a British lawyer, consultant and socialite.[1] In 1982, he was convicted of both the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow (born Martha Sharp Crawford; 1932–2008) in 1979, which had left her in a temporary coma, as well as an alleged insulin overdose in 1980 that left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life.[2][3] On appeal, both convictions were reversed, and Bülow was found not guilty at his second trial.[4][3]
Background
Beginning life as Claus Cecil Borberg, Bülow was the son of Danish author and playwright, Svend Borberg (1888–1947) and his wife, Jonna von Bülow-Plüskow (1900–1959). His father was accused, though later cleared, of being a Nazi collaborator for his activities during the Second World War in the German occupation of Denmark.[5] After graduating from university with a degree in law and becoming an apprentice in the legal profession, Cl
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Sunny von Bulow, heiress who spent almost 28 years in a coma, dies at 76
Martha “Sunny” von Bulow, an heiress of misfortune who spent almost 28 years in a coma and whose husband, Claus von Bulow, twice went on trial on charges of attempting to kill her, died Saturday at a nursing home in New York City. She was 76.
She had a fortune estimated as high as $75 million when she married Von Bulow, a Danish-born financier, in 1966. They lived, by all accounts, a charmed life in multimillion-dollar homes on New York’s Fifth Avenue and in Newport, R.I.
Troubles developed in the marriage, however, and she went into a coma on Dec. 27, 1979, but was soon revived. A year later, on Dec. 21, 1980, she was found unconscious on her bathroom floor and never recovered.
Her two children from her previous marriage to an Austrian prince financed a $400,000 private investigation that led to Claus von Bulow’s indictment in 1981. They alleged that Von Bulow was having an affair and stood to inherit $14 million if his wife were to die.
In one of the most sensational legal scandals of the 1980s, Von B
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The heiress who spent 27 years in a coma
Sunny von Bülow
1932-2008
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By the time Martha “Sunny” von Bülow died last week in a Manhattan nursing home at 76, she had been in a coma for 27 years, 11 months, and 15 days—the result, prosecutors argued, of a murder attempt by her second husband, Claus von Bülow. Languishing in a persistent vegetative state, Sunny inspired two sensational 1980s trials, during which von Bülow was first convicted and then acquitted of the charge.
Known as “Sunny” because of her cheerful disposition, she was the only daughter of a Pittsburgh utilities magnate who left
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