I never met Martha (“Sunny”) von Bulow—never enjoyed her Grace Kelly beauty, never partied at her 23-room mansion in Newport, R.I. But for most of one winter and another spring in the 1980s, I knew almost as many intimate details about Sunny as I did about my husband. That's because I was the ABC News correspondent covering the trial, and later retrial, of the man accused of trying to murder her: Claus von Bulow, her husband.
It was the sensational legal circus of its day—our O.J.—with a blend of money, sex, and power that was irresistible. At 55, Claus, a tall, aristocratic Danish-born, British-bred financier (who added the “von” and the “Bulow” to his own name), was accused of trying to murder his heiress wife (she'd inherited $75 million) by injecting her—twice—with insulin. She was not a diabetic.
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