University Daily Kansan, April 26, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Retrial of von Bulow begins
By United Press International
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Socialite Claus von Bullo lived off his wife's fortune, then tried to kill her to inherit millions and marry a beautiful actress, prosecutors said yesterday at the opening of his retrial for attempted murder.
Assistant Attorney General Marc DeSisto painted on Bulow, a former aide to the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, as a parasite who finally tried to kill his wife with insulin injections to inherit $14 million of her $70 million estate and marry his mistress, Alexandra Isles.
"He lived off her money and he lived well," DeSisto told the 15-member jury. "On two separate occasions he assaulted his wife, both times with insulin . . . intending to murder her."
Isles, a former soap opera actress, gave von Bulow a deadline to leave his wife, the prosecutor said.
"THE MAN ON trial here proposed once again to Alexandra Isles days before the second coma," he said, the word "days" ringing out loudly in the packed courtroom.
Von Bulen appeared agitated several times during DeSisto's 50-minute opening statement. He rubbed his face nervously at times. At one point he threw down his pen, but remained silent throughout.
A German maid whose testimony helped convict von Bulow of attempted murder in 1982 took the stand again as the first witness in the retrial. Von Bulow's first conviction was overturned by the state Supreme Court.
Maria Schralhammer, the thin,
aging personal maid of Martha
"Sunny" von Bulow, said she had been with her mistress 23 years.
Schrallhammer, speaking in a shaky voice and heavy accent, said she had access to every area of Clareed Court, the huge family mansion in Newport where von Bulow allegedly tried to inject his wife with insulin during the Christmas holidays in 1979 and 1980.
DESISTO SAID Schrallhammer would testify that von Bulow told her wife had a sore throat the day of her first coma, Dec. 27, 1979.
Von Bulow told the maid, "Don't go in the bedroom," DeSisto said.
The maid found the utilities heirs unconscious on the bed with a cold arm hanging over the side, he said.
Mrs. von Bulow has never recovered from the 1890 coma, the second of two comas. She remains in a New York hospital.
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