Claus von Bülow Dies at 92

Claus von Bülow Dies at 92

Danish-British socialite Claus von Bülow passed away at the age of 92 on Saturday at his home in London, according to the New York Times.

 

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About von Bülow

von Bülow was charged with the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979 at her Newport mansion which left her in a coma.

In the trial, he was convicted for the attempted murder of his wife by administering an insulin overdose in 1980 which left her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life.

However, that conviction in the first trial was also reversed and he was found not guilty at his second trial. 

A jury in Newport, Rhode Island found von Bülow guilty of attempting to induce his wife’s death, and he was sentenced in 1982 to 30 years in prison.

von Bülow maintained his innocence and was later freed on $1 million bail.

von Bülow, with the help of Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and former United States attorney Thomas Puccio, was acquitted of all charges in 1985 at his second trial in Providence.

 

The case was deemed the trial of the century and was made into an Academy Award-winning movie "Reversal of Fortune."

 

See the trailer of the movie below