Claus von Bülow

Claus von Bülow ( born August 11, 1926 as Claus Cecil Borberg in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a British German - Danish origin. He arrived in the early 1980s to worldwide fame, because he was charged with two counts of attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow (née Martha Sharp Crawford, divorced Auersperg ).

Biography

Bulow's mother Jonna came from the old noble family von Bülow. His father was a Danish playwright Svend Borberg. His maternal grandfather was Fritz Bulow, 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 in the 1950s and 1960s as the personal assistant of J. Paul Getty. On June 6, 1966, he married Sunny, a rich American heiress and ex -wife of Alfred Auersperg. Sunny had a daughter and a son from his first marriage. From the marriage with the daughter Cosima Iona Bülow von Bülow, born in 1967 comes from.

1980 fell from Sunny ultimately never solved reasons in a until her death in 2008, persistent coma. 1982 Bülow attempted murder of his wife was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He lodged an appeal against this judgment and hired the Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz. This succeeded, that the guilty verdict was repealed in 1984 and Bülow was acquitted in a second process in 1985 in all respects.

Filming

Dershowitz wrote the book Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow case (1985 ) Reversal of Fortune as the ( German: Reversal of Fortune ) starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close ( 1990) was filmed.

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• Born in 1926
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