Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, 60, former "Glamour Girl No. 1" of New York café society; of cancer; in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. An heiress at twelve and debutante of the year at 17, Frazier became melodramatic grist for tabloids chronicling such fatuous events of the '40s as her dating of John F. Kennedy and her ill-fated engagement to Howard Hughes. Years later, after two failed marriages and protracted psychoanalysis, she wrote that her early life was far from the big cotillion it was thought to be. "All it brought me," she said...
...merely to agree that much of life is otherwise inexplicable. Why would a devout Jewish husband tempt his beautiful new bride into adultery with a loutish footman? What could prompt a spirited girl to masquerade as a yeshiva boy and then marry a village's most eligible heiress? In The Cabalist of East Broadway, a morose old Hebrew scholar suddenly abandons New York City for a young wife and fame in Israel. Just as suddenly, he returns alone to his old haunts. He tries to tell the narrator why: "Man does not live according to reason...
Convicted of twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha ("Sunny") with injections of insulin, Von Bülow faces up to 40 years in prison. The prosecution, arguing that he might flee the country, asked that his $100,000 bail be revoked. But Judge Thomas Needham denied the motion, leaving Von Bülow free pending sentencing, probably...
...international social circles, joining the European high society during his school days in England. He rose in the oil business and at one point worked for American petroleum billionaire John Paul Getty. In the late 1960s, he married the ultra rich Martha "Sunny" Crawford von Auersperg, a Pittsburgh utility heiress, and they lived well, if not happily, in her Rhode Island mansion. But by 1979, he became distrenchanted with her love, or hungry for her money, or both. He tried to murder her twice with insulin injections, during two successive Christmas vacations. By May 1981, doctors had declared that...
...trial is Jet-Setter Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of twice trying to murder his heiress-wife of 15 years, Martha ("Sunny"), by injecting her with insulin. Sunny, 50, went into a coma at Christmas time in 1979 and again in 1980; the second seems irreversible. She "is alive in the most primitive sense of the word . . . vegetative," said Prosecutor Stephen Famiglietti. The defense contends that Sunny brought on the comas by overindulging in alcohol, sweets and drugs...