Claus von Bülow
Claus von Bülow (born August 11, 1926 as Claus Cecil Borberg in Copenhagen , Denmark ; † May 25, 2019 in London ) was a Briton of German-Danish origin. He achieved worldwide fame in the early 1980s because he was charged with two attempts to murder his wife Sunny von Bülow (née Martha Sharp Crawford, divorced Auersperg).
biography
Bülow's mother Jonna came from the old noble family von Bülow . His father was the Danish playwright Svend Borberg . His maternal grandfather was Fritz Bülow , a Danish lawyer, Minister of Justice from 1910 to 1913 and President of the Danish Parliament.
Claus von Bülow studied law at Trinity College , Cambridge , and worked as personal assistant to J. Paul Getty in the 1950s and 1960s . On June 6, 1966, he married Sunny, a wealthy American heiress and the ex-wife of Alfred Auersperg . Sunny had a daughter and a son from her first marriage. The daughter Cosima Iona von Bülow , born in 1967, comes from her marriage to Bülow .
In 1980, Sunny fell into a coma that lasted until her death in 2008, for reasons that were ultimately unexplained. In 1982, Bülow was found guilty of attempting the murder of his wife and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He appealed against this judgment and hired Harvard professor Alan M. Dershowitz . This succeeded that the guilty verdict was reversed in 1984 and Bülow was acquitted on all points in a second trial in 1985.
filming
Alan M. Dershowitz wrote the book Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow case (1985), which was filmed as Reversal of Fortune (German: The affair of Sunny von B. ) with Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close (1990).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claus von Bülow Dies at 92; Society Figure in High-Profile Case , The New York Times . May 30, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bülow, Claus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British acquitted murder suspect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | before May 30, 2019 |