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  Claus von Bülow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg on August 11, 1926 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a British socialite.
In 1982, Von Bülow stood trial for the attempted murder of his wife Sunny at their estate, Clarendon Court, in Newport, Rhode Island.
Claus's and Sunny's daughter, Cosima von Bülow, was disinherited by her maternal grandmother, Annie Laurie Aitken, for having maintained her father's innocence during the trials.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claus_von_Bulow   (414 words)

  
 Biography.com - Tonight on Biography®   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
laus von Bulow was the leading character in what has become known as one of the "trials of the century." Accused of attempting to murder his wealthy wife, twice, by injecting her with insulin.
Claus was well educated at private boarding schools and Cambridge University, where he received a law degree.
Claus fell in love with Sunny who was unhappy in her marriage.
www.biography.com /tv/listings/cvonbulow.html   (475 words)

  
 The Harvard Law School Forum
Both Dershowitz and Von Bulow said four factors enabled the overturn of Von Bulow's earlier conviction: inconsistent testimony by the prosecution's witnesses, the develoment of a stronger medical case by the defense, the inclusion of evidence excluded at the first trial, and the exclusion of other evidence which had been admitted at the previous trial.
Von Bulow disscussed at some length the "little fl bag" which was, in his words, the "smoking gun" in his case.
Von Bulow concluded the prepared portion of his speed by reminding his listeners that the case was not melodramatic.
www.law.harvard.edu /students/orgs/forum/VonBulow.html   (945 words)

  
 Sponsored by Universal Pictures Dragonfly
Claus was frequently in New York, living at Sunny’s luxurious Fifth Avenue co-op apartment.
Sunny was ill, she said, and Claus was unwilling to summon medical help, saying she’d merely had a rough night and was sleeping it off.
Later, as she was walking past the von Bülows’ bedroom, Maria said she heard moaning as if someone were quite ill. Ignoring Claus’ orders to leave Sunny alone, she entered her mistress’s bedroom to find Sunny lying in one of the two twin beds, unconscious.
www.courttv.com /archive/dragonfly/bulow_4.html   (1120 words)

  
 Claus Von  Bulow
A family inspired investigation led to the indictments against Von Bulow, a Danish-born aristocrat, charging that he had twice attempted to murder Sunny by injecting her with insulin.
This theory, raising as it did the spector of Von Bulow being framed, was not one which the defense actively persued.
Their half sister Cosima Von Bulow who was to receive thirty million from her maternal grandmother was disinherited because she sided with her father during the legal battles.
www.womacknet.net /claus.htm   (1765 words)

  
 DVD Times - Reversal Of Fortune
Von Bulow is not only upper class and hideously rich, he's patronising, aloof, full of hideously false politesse and borderline racist.
She's not much more alive in the flashbacks than she is in the hospital bed and it's hard not to wonder why, if Von Bulow did kill her, he waited so long to do it when (on the evidence of this film) she was clearly a pain from the first day they met.
Von Bulow is in a chemist in New York during the appeal and he asks for a phial of insulin.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5510   (1844 words)

  
 95.03.04: The Mirror of Justice Is it Blind?
Claus von Bulow, a wealthy white socialite, was accused twice of causing his wife, ‘Sunny‘ von Bulow, to be in a coma by injecting her with an overdose of insulin.
Claus von Bulow was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 11, 1926.
In the case of Claus von Bulow he was released on a $100,000 surety bond during his first trial and was released on a $1,000,000 bail during the appeal of his conviction.
www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1995/3/95.03.04.x.html   (9934 words)

  
 Biography - OnTV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
laus von Bulow was the leading character in what has become known as one of the "trials of the century." Accused of attempting to murder his wealthy wife, twice, by injecting her with insulin, he was convicted in his first trial and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Claus fell in love with Sunny, and she was unhappy in her marriage.
On June 6, 1966, she married von Bulow.
www.biography.com /tv/listings/bulow_c.html   (698 words)

  
 E! Online - E! TV - "E! True Hollywood Story" - Claus von Bulow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Danish-born aristocrat Claus von Bulow made headlines in the mid-'80s, when he was accused of trying to murder his diabetic wife, Sunny von Bulow, by injecting her with a deadly dose of insulin.
Prosecutors were convinced von Bulow wanted to murder his wealthy wife in order to inherit millions of dollars and marry his longtime mistress, Alexandra Isles, a former soap opera actress.
Von Bulow's acquittal was not the end of his legal woes.
www.eonline.com /On/Holly/Vonbulow   (426 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Dershowitz to Argue Von Bulow Appeal
Von Bulow was convicted March 16 of attempting to kill has wealthy wife.
Claus yon Bulow would have inherited $14 million had his wife died and had he not been convicted of the attempted-murder charge.
Dershowitz wrote that Claus Von Bulow a stepson and a private investigator had illegally obtained a key piece of evidence in the original trial-an insulin-tainted hypodermic needle.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=231231   (415 words)

  
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A Danish aristocrat living in Rhode Island, Von Bulow was convicted in 1982 of trying to kill his wife, Sunny, in the winter of 1980, by giving her an overdose of insulin, which sent her into a coma (Sunny also had an insulin attack in December of 1979, but she woke up from that).
Von Bulow then hired Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and part-time lawyer, to represent him during his appeal.
Part of why Von Bulow was convicted in the first trial is that he came across as a cold personality.
www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/14084/74822   (766 words)

  
 Sponsored by Universal Pictures Dragonfly
Finally, the physicians chalked up the coma to the low blood sugar and diagnosed Sunny as being hypoglycemic, which means that her body was capable of producing insulin, but if she overindulged in sweets or went too long without eating, she could trigger another incident.
Several weeks later, Maria found her first clue that Claus was involved in Sunny’s collapse.
Claus was out of town and oblivious to Maria and Ala’s activities.
www.courttv.com /archive/dragonfly/bulow_5.html   (645 words)

  
 National Review: Reversal of Fortune. - movie reviews
Claus von Bulow, her playboy husband, has been found guilty by a Newport jury of twice trying to kill her with insulin shots.
Claus, a Danish quasi-aristocrat, as flippant as he is eccentric, is being flip again.
Claus was (is) a very tall, large-bonned, sinisterly attractive man-about-town, a strange mixture of outward solidity and inner sociopathic deviousness.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n25_v42/ai_9275936   (924 words)

  
 Claus Von Bulow - 35th Anniversary of New York Magazine
Her husband, Claus von Bülow, is accused by his stepchildren, Prince Alexander von Auersperg and Princess Ala, and by Sunny's very convincing personal maid, of injecting Sunny with insulin and inducing the coma in order to gain control of his wife's fortune.
After a lengthy trial in which the defense seemed to argue that too many sweets and too much alcohol — or maybe an attempted suicide — were responsible for Sunny's fate, von Bülow is convicted on two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
"[Claus] is shocked and incredulous that his stepchildren, whom he claims he thought of as his own and helped raise, have turned against him and will be the star prosecution witnesses at his trial."
www.newyorkmetro.com /news/articles/03/03/35th/crazedcity/crimes/11.htm   (441 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Reversal of Fortune: Inside the Van Bulow Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Convicted of trying to kill his wealthy wife Martha (Sunny), Claus von Bulow hired the author, a Harvard law professor, to spearhead his appeal for a new trial in Rhode Island, scene of the alleged crime.
In 1982, Claus von Bulow was convicted of twice trying to murder his rich, socialite wife, Sunny, but a retrial last year exonerated him.
One is that it presents the Von Bulow case, from the first trial to the appellate process to the not guilty verdict with an excitingly clear point of view.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0394539036   (866 words)

  
 Reversal of Fortune (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dershowitz, who loves being in the limelight almost as much as he loves the law, took on the task of saving Claus Von Bulow from prison for the attempted murder of his rich wife initially as a means of raising money to help him in his pro bono cases.
The irony is that as the case developed Dershowitz became persuaded that Claus was innocent.
Whether Dershowitz convinced himself of Von Bulow's innocence to assuage a possibly guilty conscience is a good question.
us.imdb.com /Title?0100486   (749 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Reversal of Fortune (1990): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This film is far more than just the salacious filmed version of the tabloid scandal documenting Claus von Bulow's conviction and appeal on charges of twice attempting to murder his fabulously wealthy wife Sunny by injecting her with insulin.
Von Bulow was wholly unsympathetic character, idle so-called `Eurotrash,' widely assumed to be slam-dunk guilty, even by the legal team representing him on appeal.
Glenn Close, playing Sunny von Bulow, manages not to be overshadowed by Iron's performance even though her character spends most of the film in a coma.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000056BP3?v=glance   (1637 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Le Mystère Von Bulow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This account of the appeal and eventual retrial of Claus von Bulow for the attempted murder of his heiress wife Sunny is a very enjoyable way to spend an evening.
It's all as a result of Jeremy Iron's marvellous portrayal of the enigmatic von Bulow, although all the cast, namely Glenn Close as Sunny von Bulow and Ron Silver as the iconoclastic lawyer Alan Dershowitz, are excellent.
Apparently he wore the same cut of shirt as von Bulow, whose tails met and were attached together between his legs, to smooth out the shirt near the waistline.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302033020   (1163 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
English furniture, oil paintings and other furnishings reportedly belonging to Claus and Sunny von Bulow sold for a total of $11.56 million in a two-day auction that ended Saturday, Sotheby's reported.
Claus von Bulow has been living in Europe since he was acquitted in 1985 in a retrial of charges that he twice tried to murder his wife with insulin injections.
The offerings were said to include furnishings from Clarendon Court, the von Bulows' mansion in Newport, R.I., and pieces from the couple's Manhattan apartment.
ils.unc.edu /~viles/172i/users/little/docs/AP881030-0008   (255 words)

  
 Claus von Bulow
Claus was educated in a Swiss school in St. Moritz.
In 1940, Claus was sent out of the country to England in the belly of a British Mosquito Bomber.
Claus and Sunny were married for 13 years in 1979.
www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=9447   (280 words)

  
 1985   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The verdict is in, the trial is over and Claus von Bulow is a free man. The jury of eight women and four men returned a verdict of not guilty shortly after 11 o'clock Monday morning.They had deliberated for less than two and a half days.
For the record, von Bulow was charged with twice trying to kill his wife, Pittsburgh utilities heiress Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, with injections on insulin.
Last year, while the appeal was still on hold, the Rhode Island Supreme Court overturned the conviction, saying that key evidence in the case had been mishandled by state police investigators.That ruling set the stage for the retrial that culminated in Monday's verdict of not guilty.
www.providencephoenix.com /archive/features/98/10/22/1985.html   (843 words)

  
 Reversal of Fortune on DVD - MovieWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dershowitz (Ron Silver) is hired by Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) to defend him against charges that he attempted to murder his wife, Sunny (Glenn Close), who lies in a coma.
As Dershowitz, aided by his eager law students, scrambles for ways to puncture the veracity of the charges against von Bulow, Sunny narrates flashback scenes that offer a frosted window into both the events leading up to her coma-inducing collapse and the strangely cold and alienating world of the superrich.
Irons's von Bulow, a brilliant Academy Award-winning characterization, provides the creepy, complicated center for a film in which every surface is slippery and every truth has trailing behind it a sinuous shadow of doubt.
movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?085391193425   (335 words)

  
 Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Partially narrated by Sunny von Bulow (Glenn Close), from her hospital bed, the story begins with Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) released on bail.
Convicted of twice attempting to murder his wife Sunny, but only succeeding in putting her in a coma, Claus is looking for a hot-shot lawyer to win his appeal.
Time took its toll as Claus tired of living at Sunny's whim, desiring to return to legal practice, while Sunny hid her pain within a cloud of pills and alcohol.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Reversal_Fortune.html   (754 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: Merwyn at the Movies
When you're finished watching this film you are likely to believe two things: 1) Claus von Bulow got away with the attempted murder of his socialite wife because 2) his lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, is totally amoral.
Anything damaging to Claus von Bulow is mentioned only if Dershowitz can rationalize it away; anything offered in defense of Sunny von Bulow's character (testimony or actions of friends and relatives) is rapidly discredited.
The villain in Reversal of Fortune is not Claus von Bulow, who, as embodied by Jeremy Irons in a quirky one-note performance, seems to be his own worse enemy.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_view.php?journalid=4216   (1766 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Reversal Of Fortune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The wealthy von Bulow made headlines in 1982 when he was convicted for the attempted murder his wife Sunny (after she was found in a coma, Claus was accused of giving her an unneeded shot of insulin to cause it — the judge slapped him with a 30 year stretch).
Narrated by Sunny (Glenn Close) from her comatose state, the film is about how Dershowitz (Ron Silver) comes to defend von Bulow (Jeremy Irons), even though he finds Claus detestable and isn't entirely sure if he's innocent.
The court may arrive at a verdict, but von Bulow remains a mystery to the end.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/r/reversaloffortune.q.shtml   (369 words)

  
 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Reversal of Fortune | Deseret Morning News Web edition
"Reversal of Fortune" is the story of the von Bulow case, with Jeremy Irons giving a fabulous performance as Claus von Bulow, shown as a pompous sort who is hated equally by all and, though he is rather distant and wry on the surface, is quite complex within.
In a cinematic trick that would seem at first glance to be highly suspect, Kazan and Schroeder use Sunny von Bulow (Glenn Close) as the film's narrator — as she lies in a coma.
Though there is a "Rashomon" effect, as we see from several points of view the events leading up to Sunny's slipping into a coma after an apparent insulin injection (she was not diabetic), what is at issue in the film is whether von Bulow got a fair trial the first time around.
deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,1535,00.html   (486 words)

  
 IGN: The Stax Report: Special ''True Crime'' Showcase III
This is a fact-based crime drama recounts the case of socialite Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons, in a wonderfully droll, Oscar-winning performance) who was convicted of trying to murder his troubled wife Sunny (Glenn Close) with an injection of insulin.
Claus (who was rumored to have done away with family members in Europe) had several affairs and Sunny was an alcoholic and a pill-popper.
Even though the outcome of von Bulow's appeal is already known, Reversal of Fortune is nevertheless a suspenseful, intoxicating, and often funny expose of how von Bulow got his new day in court and won.
filmforce.ign.com /articles/451/451016p1.html   (1120 words)

  
 Reversal of Fortune
Amazon.com essential video: One of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s involved Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin.
And this has as much to do with Jeremy Irons' performance as Klaus Von Bulow as it does with Schroeder's masterful writing and directing: here is an example of everything coming together in the right place at the right time.
While the film makes no moral judgments, and Bulow was eventually acquitted in real life; one can't help but wonder about the real outcome of the night that left Sunny a comatose vegetable to this day.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /B000056BP3/Reversal_of_Fortune.html   (1341 words)

  
 Genealogy.com: Ancestry of Sunny Von Bulow: First Generation
She married Prince Alfie Von Aersperg 20 Jul 1957.
She married Claus Von Bulow 6 Jun 1966.
It is believed that the coma was induced from insulin doses supposedly admininistered by her husband, Claus, in an attempt to murder her.
www.genealogy.com /famousfolks/sunnyv/d0/i0000001.htm   (102 words)

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