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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
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. She then attended
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. 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

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