Executive Summary
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- In June 1985 Sunny von Bulow lies in a private room at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, fed by a tube and watched by private nurses, while 90 miles away a Providence jury acquits her husband Klaus at his second trial for attempted murder.0:00
- Her children Alexander and Ala von Auersberg found a national victims' organization named for their mother in 1985, which drops her name and grows into today's National Center for Victims of Crime.1:33
- Unable to retry him criminally, the stepchildren sue Klaus for $56 million in federal court in Manhattan, and the December 1987 settlement has him surrender every claim to Sonny's fortune and divorce her in exchange for the suit being dropped.3:36
- Cosima, the only child of Klaus and Sonny, is cut out of grandmother Annie Laurie Aitken's estate valued between 50 and more than $110 million, losing a share worth about $25 million, until the same settlement restores her to the one-third share originally intended.5:07
- Klaus enjoys the notoriety in New York with Andrea Reynolds, then follows Alan Dershowitz's advice to disappear to London, while Sonny is moved to a Manhattan nursing home in 1998 and dies there on December 6th, 2008 at 76, after 28 years in bed.7:32
Key Quote
“I'm Megyn Kelly, and this is MK Confidential.”
— Megyn Kelly2:16
Key Quote
“He's being sued by his stepchildren for $56 million. The case is not over.”
— Alan Dershowitz4:18
Key Quote
“This is during a murder trial with butlers with white gloves and all this kind of stuff.”
— Dominic Dunn8:32