SUNNY VON BÜLOW
 “A Wasted Life”

Martha Sharp Crawford was born into an extremely wealthy American family. Upon her father’s death in 1935, utilities magnate George Crawford left his infant daughter $100 million.

She had two children with her first husband, Austrian Prince von Auersperg. At that time, she led a glamorous society life, and was listed on the world’s best-dressed list.

Sunny had a third child during her second marriage to British/Danish socialite Claus von Bülow. In the following years, her drug and alcohol abuse spiraled out of control. In 1980 she slipped into a coma from which she would never recover.

The ensuing scandalous controversy became the subject of the Oscar-nominated movie “Reversal of Fortune.” Claus was convicted of trying to kill his wife by insulin injection. Upon appeal, when represented by famous attorney Alan Dershowitz the conviction was overturned. Sunny spent 28 comatose years in a nursing home before dying in 2008 at age 76.