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...full of them, and he missed no chances. When the Austrian Prince de Ligne, who had the most renowned group of French drawings in Europe, was killed in the war against France, Albert bought the cream of his collection; he acquired another unrivaled group of drawings from Count Moriz von Fries when the count's bank failed in 1819; for 30 years he had agents scouring estates from Rome to London. In 20 years, 1792-1811, he spent more than 1.25 million florins on drawings and prints, ten times the outlay on art of the Austrian imperial court itself. During...
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...
When the retrial of Claus von Bulow on charges that he twice tried to murder his wife with insulin injections began in Providence last week, the media glare was even more relentless than last time. The Danish aristocrat's wife Martha (nicknamed "Sunny," for her disposition) von Auersperg von Bulow, heiress to a Pittsburgh fortune estimated at $35 million, went into an irreversible coma at Christmastime 1980 at the couple's oceanfront Newport home. An impassive Von Bulow was convicted in 1982 on two counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. But last April, after...
...first two days of televised testimony retraced the steps of the original trial. Assistant Attorney General Marc DeSisto in his opening argument depicted Von Bulow to the jury as a freeloading layabout: "He was living off her money, and he was living well. The defendant was well aware of what he would get if his wife died." The prosecution's first witness was Mrs. Von Bulow's maid of 23 years, Maria Schrallhammer, an overwrought, slightly bowed woman who could have stepped out of a whodunit. Schrallhammer recounted how her mistress had slipped into a coma while Von Bulow, sitting...
...Von Bulow is confident that the jury-which is currently being chosen-will agree that the charges against him are a frame-up Although he refused comment yesterday, von Bulow recently told a reporter that he feels "very good and very optimistic going into the trial...