Countess
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Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli (born 15 April 1967) is a British socialite and philanthropist of U.S., Danish, and
German noble ancestry. She is the daughter of the lawyer
Claus von Bülow and
Sunny von Bülow. She was named on the
International Best Dressed List 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 single-sex education, all-girls independent day school on Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood in New York City.
History
Maria Bowen Chapin opened "Miss Chapin's School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys and Girls" ...
. She then attended
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
. She is the 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 Prinzessin von
Auersperg (born 1958) and Alexander-Georg Prinz von Auersperg (born 1959). After her graduation from
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
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 nobleman and a banker. He is the son of Giuseppe Pavoncelli (1929–2010)
and his wife, 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
Morgan Library & Museum, which buys drawings in her mother's name.
In popular culture
The 1990 film ''
Reversal of Fortune'' 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Von Bulow Pavoncelli, Cosima
1967 births
Living people
American socialites
British socialites
Countesses in Italy
Cosima
English people of American descent
English people of Danish descent
English people of German descent
Socialites from Newport, Rhode Island
Brown University alumni
Chapin School (Manhattan) alumni