Is Sonny Von Bulow still alive?

[bleedingheart]

I was looking for articles about her on google but only get references to the case...apparently 24 years later she is still in a coma...

[sniffa]

1. i have no idea

who that is, but you reminded me of one of my favorite categories from the Long Lost game show, "remote controL"

where the host wouLd say a famous person's name and you'd have to guess dead or aLive.

[bleedingheart]

3. Oh it was the trial of the century before OJ...

Rich playboy Claus Von Bulow was convicted of trying to give his wife Sonny a lethal dose of insulin...but she ends up in a coma...

Oh it was wild...

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/family/bulow/1.html?sect=12

[Lavender Brown]

4. "Reversal of Fortune"

is a movie based on this case. Jeremy Irons plays Claus Von Bulow. It's creepy. :)

[Laughing Mirror]

2. Is it only 24 years?

Seems like a century ago. In your research you haven't happened to come across Truman Capote's court deposition when Claus was being tried in this case have you?

What should have been a simple deposition went on for pages and pages with Truman's made-up stories and digressions about what a drug abuser Sonny was ... "And Sonny took this huge syringe out of her purse right there at our table and showed me how to shoot up Demerol!" A lot of it was quoted in New York Times, I think, when the case was being tried. But I've always wanted to read Truman's deposition in full. It was just crazy, but highly entertaining.

[bleedingheart]

6. this site has most of the stuff but no deposition...

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/family/bulow/6.html?sect=12

It does mention that Capote's statements were aired at trial...

[Laughing Mirror]

9. His deposition wasn't put in the court transcript

Because he died at Joanna Carson's before they had time to cross-examine him over his deposition and his "damming testimony"--the phrase I remember being used at the time. The deposition was reported to have rambled on for so long and so incoherently--irrelevant stuff stuff like, "I had a wonderful old house high up in Brooklyn Heights where Dorothy Parker once lived, with a huge terrace and a fabulous view of the city..." I guess they thought it would be laughed out of court.

[PinkTiger]

5. Alive

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/vnames-nf/von+Bulow+Sunny

[salinen]

7. Last I heard, no.

but things change.

[bleedingheart]

8. thanks....I was just curious...