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...trial is Jet-Setter Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of twice trying to murder his heiress-wife of 15 years, Martha ("Sunny"), by injecting her with insulin. Sunny, 50, went into a coma at Christmas time in 1979 and again in 1980; the second seems irreversible. She "is alive in the most primitive sense of the word . . . vegetative," said Prosecutor Stephen Famiglietti. The defense contends that Sunny brought on the comas by overindulging in alcohol, sweets and drugs...
...story of how the Indian maiden Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith from execution by her tribe is taught to nearly all American schoolchildren. Most of them grow up thinking they know better, just as they stop believing in Santa Claus and George Washington's cherry tree. Because the only source for this episode is Smith's journal, the skepticism seems justified, especially since the captain elsewhere describes a suspiciously similar rescue by another young woman in Central Europe. But historians have found that where it is possible to double-check Smith's facts, the old adventurer comes...
...coma, an aristocratic second husband, suspicious stepchildren and a fabulous fortune. This is no storybook yarn but a true-life tale that has scandalized the gentry. The final chapter began to unfold last week in Newport, R.I., where jury selection was nearly completed in the trial of Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha with injections of insulin, precipitating the coma in which she has languished for more than a year. She is not expected to recover. During the quizzing of prospective jurors, the trial produced its first titillating revelation...
...backhand, a fancy title and a sorry bank account. They were married and had two children, Princess Annie-Laurie, now 23, and Prince Alexander, 22. But happy-ever-after lasted fewer than eight years. The couple were divorced in 1965, and by the next year, Sunny was married to Claus. They have a daughter, Cosima...
...case has split the Von Bülows' circle in half. Some are convinced that he is guilty. Others find the idea implausible. Says one friend: "Claus is such a meticulous man. Bumbling something like this would be ridiculous." Whatever the outcome, high society is uneasy. With Claus von Bülow as the defendant, a way of life is on trial. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported byJoelle Attinger/Newport