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Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli (born 15 April 1967) is a British socialite and philanthropist of U.S., Danish, and German ancestry. She is the daughter of the lawyer

Claus von Bülow Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg; 11 August 1926 – 25 May 2019) was a Danish-born British lawyer, consultant and socialite. In 1982, he was convicted of both the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow (born Martha Sharp C ...

and

Sunny von Bülow Martha Sharp "Sunny" von Bülow (; September 1, 1932 − December 6, 2008) was an American heiress and socialite. Her second husband, Claus von Bülow (1926−2019), was convicted in 1982 of attempting to murder her by insulin overdose, but the ...

. She was named on the

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Hall of Fame in 1999.

Early life

Cosima von Bülow was born 15 April 1967 in New York City, where she attended the

Chapin School Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school in New York City's Upper East Side neighborhood in Manhattan. History Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" in 1901. The school origin ...

. She then attended

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. She is third child of Sunny von Bülow and the only child of Claus von Bülow. Her great-grandfather was Frits Toxwerdt von Bülow af Plüskow (1872–1955), a Danish minister of justice. She has two half-siblings from her mother's first marriage; Annie-Laurie "Ala" Henriette von Auersperg (born 1958) and Alexander-Georg von Auersperg (born 1959). After her graduation from

in 1989, she moved to London to join her father.

Personal life

In 1996, she married Count Riccardo Pavoncelli (born 8 October 1957 in Naples), an Italian banker. He is the son of Giuseppe Pavoncelli (1929–2010) and Rosalba Morelli (b. 1935) He is related to Giuseppe Pavoncelli t(1836–1910). The couple have three children: * Nicolas Antonio Riccardo Pavoncelli (b. 10 August 1998) * Marina Gaetana Pavoncelli (b. 20 June 2000) * Antonia Carolina Pavoncelli (b. 23 November 2005)

Philanthropy

She donates money to education programs, cultural institutions, and cancer charities in Britain. She also administers the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund at New York City's

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, which buys drawings in her mother's name.

In popular culture

The 1990 film ''

Reversal of Fortune ''Reversal of Fortune'' is a 1990 American drama film adapted from the 1985 book ''Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case'', written by law professor Alan Dershowitz. It recounts the true story of the unexplained coma of socialite Sunny ...

'' was based on Alan Dershowitz' books about the case against Claus von Bülow for the alleged murder attempt on his wife, Sunny, with Kristi Hundt as the older Cosima von Bülow and Kara Emerson as the young Cosima von Bülow.

Ancestry

References

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