Sunny Von Bulow dead after 28 years in coma

US heiress Martha von Bulow, who spent almost threedecades in a coma but was still at the centre of 1980s courtroomdramas, has died at the age of 76.Mrs von Bulow, known as Sunny, was found unconscious in her Rhode Island mansion in December 1980.  Her second husband, Claus von Bulow, who is now a society figurein Britain, was acquitted of twice trying to kill her with insulininjections.  The events were turned into a 1990 Hollywood film, Reversal of Fortune.  Starring Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons, the film wasbased on a book by Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard lawyer who defendedClaus von Bulow at his second trial.  The daughter of utilities tycoon George Crawford, Sunny vonBulow died at New York’s Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home, her familysaid.  She is survived by a daughter from her marriage to Claus vonBulow, and two children from her first marriage to an Austrian prince.

More:  BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7769658.stm

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