The Von Bulow Affair

5810. The Von Bulow Affair, by William Wright (read 17 Nov 2022) This book, published in 1983, is a well-written account of the first trial of Claus Von Bulow, who was accused of trying to kill his wife by injecting her with insulin on two occasions, the first in 1979 and the second in 1980. I had only a vague memory of the case and did not remember how it turned out, only that Alan Dershowitz was involved in it. I found myself much caught up in the account,. The author attended the trial. The author knew that Dershowitz was brought into the case but the book was published before the appeal was decided and of course before the second trial at which Von Bulow was found not guilty. The author was convinced of Von Bulow's guilt and i was show more also by the time I finished the book. I would like to know what the author thought of the events which occurred after his book was published. And I admit if I had known of the second trial I would not have read this book--and thus would not have had the great experience which reading the book was.

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This was a very interesting book until Sunny went into the second coma, then it became boring and I had to skip a lot of it. The thing about the trail Alexandra "Victoria Winters" his mistress testified that Claus was letting her die by not calling for medical help at the time of the first coma. She went into two comas. The first one was the one in which he delayed calling for help and she recovered from that one completely. During the second coma he called for help at once, but that was the one she never recovered from. I think there is a case for saying he is too blame for not calling for help, but only for the first coma. Since she recovered from that one, I don't understand what they tried him for or why. Furthermore by the time of show more the second coma he was on the outs with Alexandra "Victoria Winters". She had given him the boot for not leaving Sunny. She had ended the affair or he had. They remained in touch but where not dating anymore. show less

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