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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on December 06, 2008, 03:43:12 PM
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(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01154/sunny-von-bulow_1154724f.jpg)
Her second husband, Claus von Bulow, a British society figure of Danish-German noble ancestry, was convicted of attempted murder by injecting her with insulin, only for the conviction to be overturned on appeal. He was then found not guilty at a second trial.
The remarkable saga was made into the hit 1990 film, Reversal of Fortune, which starred Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons as the high-profile couple.
Mrs von Bulow died in a private nursing home in New York after never regaining consciousness or showing any signs of brain activity. Mr von Bulow, 82, lives in London where he writes arts reviews.
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link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3630080/Sunny-von-Bulow-Socialite-who-took-the-secret-of-her-coma-to-the-grave.html)
RIP
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At least von Bulow has the good sense to avoid sports memorabilia shows.