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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Was he injected?.................
That was a huge, huge scandal some twenty plus years ago.
This was only eclipsed by the Jon Benet Ramsey tragedy a short time later. Both of these cases would have gotten stratospheric levels of attention had they occurred after the Internet came out.
It was almost 40 years ago!
Claus von Bülow, Thad Cockran and Leon Redbone together in Heaven.
Yes. And living at the time in New England, I read about for months on end. And thinking back on it, I always suspected he ‘euthanized’ her. Glad he’s gone......sometimes evil lives too long.
Will Hannity ask Dershowitz about it tonight?
Wow. My sense of time has changed as I’ve gotten older.
It doesn’t seem that long, but it is.
I saw a pretty good movie about it in the 80s...particularly interesting was the character who
played Derschowitz; for the life of me I can’t remember
the name of the movie nor who was in it.
Claus Von Bulow Phobia
The fear of someone giving you a fatal injection.
Reversal of Fortune (1990) -
Jeremy Irons played Claus, Glenn Close was Sunny, and Ron Silver played Derschowitz.
Prayers for his soul.
Dennis Leary touches on it in “No Cure for Cancer”.
In the early ‘80s, National Lampoon did a piece on “Children’s Letters to Santa Claus von Bulow”.
I don’t think Von Bulow will be up there...
Are you sure about that?
Are you sure about that?
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