Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, deprived children are cruelly aware of those who have more; the streets and screens provide all the evidence they need. It is only the privileged young who can be free, however briefly, from envy. Given this flaw, Once Upon a Time, an account of the heiress's first 17 years, might have been a mere riches-to-rags saga of Society's Child, who proved that success was largely a matter of jeans. Instead the author speaks in melancholy outbursts about an evaporated world of titled men and breathtaking women, of movie stars and mansions and what seemed...
Sequels, if they are to be successful, must combine elements of the original blockbuster with a new twist. The Von Bulow Affair II does just that. As before, there are the loyal maid with the German accent, the stepchildren who stand to inherit millions, the sleeping heiress who was allegedly the target of a murder attempt most foul, all set against the gilded backdrops of Newport, R.I., and Manhattan. But this time there is the promise of new and quirky characters, while the once icy defendant, lo and behold, seems to have come to life...
While his legal strategist was teaching classes at the Law School yesterday, Danish aristocrat Claus von Bulow began his long-awaited retrial trying Providence on charges of twice trying to murder his heiress wife...
Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz will direct the von Bulow defense from his Law School office, keeping tabs on a three-ring circus of a trial that has all the makings of a cheap courtroom novel: lust, greed, syringes, an heiress' fortune, a bitter maid, and vindictive step-children...
Dershowitz was not involved in the much-bally hooed, five-week 1982 trial, when Von Bulow was convicted of attempting to kill his wife, Pittsburgh utilities heiress and New port socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, by injecting her with insulin injections...