Claus Cecil Borberg
1926 - Born on the 11th of August in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1950 - Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked as a personal assistant to J. Paul Getty after having practiced law in London.
1966 - Married Sunny, who was then the former wife of Prince Alfred of Auersperg
1982 - He stood trial for the attempted murder of his wife Sunny at their estate, Clarendon Court, in Newport, Rhode Island.
- He appealed, hiring famous Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz to represent him.
1984 - Dershowitz and his team of attorneys managed to cast serious doubts on some of the most damning evidence and witness testimony presented in the first trial, and the conviction was reversed.
1990 - Dershowitz wrote a book about the Bülow case, which later was made into a film, Reversal of Fortune, starring Jeremy Irons as Claus - a role which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
1950 - Graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked as a personal assistant to J. Paul Getty after having practiced law in London.
1966 - Married Sunny, who was then the former wife of Prince Alfred of Auersperg
1982 - He stood trial for the attempted murder of his wife Sunny at their estate, Clarendon Court, in Newport, Rhode Island.
- He appealed, hiring famous Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz to represent him.
1984 - Dershowitz and his team of attorneys managed to cast serious doubts on some of the most damning evidence and witness testimony presented in the first trial, and the conviction was reversed.
1990 - Dershowitz wrote a book about the Bülow case, which later was made into a film, Reversal of Fortune, starring Jeremy Irons as Claus - a role which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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Related Books
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Reversal of Fortune : Inside the Von Bulow Case by Alan M. Dershowitz (Hardcover - Apr 12, 1986)  |
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The Von Bulow Affair by William Wright (Hardcover - May 18, 1983) |
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The Von Bulow affair by William Wright (Unknown Binding - May 18, 1983) |
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Clarendon Court, Newport, R.I: A house and its ghosts by Claus Von Bulow (Unknown Binding - May 18, 1974) |
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Related DVDs
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The Trials of Claus von Bulow (DVD - May 18, 2008) This real life documentary has footage from the two court cases that formed the basis of the feature film "Reversal of Fortune" starring Jeremy Irons.
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