Three decades before starring in ‘House of Gucci,’ the actor won an Oscar for his turn as Claus von Bülow, convicted of attempting to murder his wife.
— who plays Maurizio’s father, Rodolfo, in the film — starred in another true-crime tale set in high society and won an Oscar for it., based on the 1985 Alan Dershowitz best-seller, Irons, then 41, played Claus von Bülow, a Danish aristocrat charged in 1982 with attempting to murder his socialite wife, Sunny von Bülow , via an insulin injection that left her in a vegetative state.
But he appealed and hired Harvard law professor Dershowitz to consult on his defense. Dershowitz enlisted some students, including Jim Cramer and future New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Von Bülow was acquitted in 1985, aided by testimony from eight medical experts who said Sunny’s coma was not caused by insulin.column, which noted that partygoers at an event in New York celebrating Vincent Price “retreated to the opposite side of the room” when von Bülow appeared.
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