Socialite Claus von Bulow, Accused Of Trying To Kill Wife In R.I.

PROVIDENCE, RI - JUNE 10: Claus von Bulow, left, sits with his attorney Alan Dershowitz in Providence, RI on June 10, 1985. Von Bulow, the Danish-born socialite, 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. Von Bulow was embroiled in one of Americas 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, R.I. 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. (Photo by George Rizer/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)