Posted on 05/30/2019 9:54:03 AM PDT by Borges
laus von Bülow, who has died aged 92, was the central figure in one of the most sensational trials of the 20th century.
The case, among the first to be televised in the United States, had all the ingredients of soap opera — adultery, drugs, murder and fabulous sums of money. Its principal characters included the heiress to a $75 million fortune, a wicked stepfather, two mistresses, minor European nobility and a daughter who stood by the father accused of attempting to kill her mother.
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Reversal of Fortune, Ron Silver played Dershowitz.
Actor was something “Silver.” He came out as a Republican and was never heard from again.
(Seinfeld - Raquel Welsh episode)
It’s interesting, Claus Von Bulow was not found guilty of murder. He was found guilty of attempted murder. Sunny lived for 28 more years.
It seems like only yesterday.
My big claim to fame, I testified in his first trial. I’m a footnote in the back of the book. I had nothing interesting to say.
The late great Ron Silver described himself and his turn from the left as a liberal being mugged by 9/11.
He continued to have a career. He was on the “West Wing” but died too young.
He died.
“What do you give the wife who has everything? Insulin.”
Yes, I googled and saw that. It wasn’t as simple as I said, but he did say he was blackballed to some extent.
Didn’t Claus move to Scarsdale and hook up with Jean Harris after that? I can’t seem to recall now.
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