On this day, June 10, in 1985, British socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife at her Rhode Island estate.
This came after von Bulow’s previous conviction for attempted murder was overturned on appeal after he hired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz was assisted by Jim Cramer, who went on to become host of CNBC’s “Mad Money.”
Prosecutors believed von Bulow tried to kill Sunny von Bulow by administering an insulin overdose in 1980, but defense experts testified that she likely did it herself.
Sunny von Bulow lived in a vegetative state until her death in 2008.
Dershowitz wrote a book on the case that was later adapted into a movie, “Reversal of Fortune.”
Jeremy Irons won an Academy Award for playing von Bulow.
-Scott McCabe
