Claus von Bulow, the Danish-born socialite who avoided a 30-year prison sentence in the 1980s after he was retried and acquitted of attempting to murder his wealthy wife with insulin injections, has died. He was 92.
He died on Saturday at his home in London, The New York Times reported, citing Riccardo Pavoncelli, his son-in-law.
Von Bulow was embroiled in one of America's most notorious criminal cases after he was indicted for trying to kill his wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, on successive Christmas vacations in 1979 and 1980 at their seaside mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. The heiress, who slipped into comas on both occasions, spent almost 28 years in a vegetative state after the second incident, which two of her children claimed had been deliberately caused by Claus von Bulow. She died in a nursing home in 2008 at age 76.