Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli

Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli
Born
Cosima von Bülow

(1967-04-15) 15 April 1967
New York City, US
EducationBrown University (BA)
OccupationSocialite
Spouse
Count Riccardo Pavoncelli
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(m. 1996)​
Children3
Parent(s)Claus von Bülow
Martha Sharp "Sunny" Crawford

Countess Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli (born 15 April 1967) is a British socialite and philanthropist of American and Danish descent. The daughter of the lawyer Claus von Bülow and socialite Sunny von Bülow, she was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1999.[1][2]

Early life and family

Cosima von Bülow was born 15 April 1967 , in New York City,[3] where she attended the Chapin School.[4] The third child of Sunny von Bülow and the only child of Claus von Bülow, she spent her summers in Newport, Rhode Island at the family estate, Clarendon Court.[5] Cosima von Bülow was born 15 April 1967 , in New York City,[3] where she attended the Chapin School.[4] The third child of Sunny von Bülow and the only child of Claus von Bülow, she spent her summers in Newport, Rhode Island at the family estate, Clarendon Court.[5]

Von Bülow attended Brown University where she was classmates, with Vanessa Vadim, Jane Fonda and director Roger Vadim's daughter, and Amy Carter.[6]

Von Bülow has two half-siblings from her mother's first marriage: Annie-Laurie "Ala" Henriette Prinzessin von Auersperg and Alexander-Georg Prinz von Auersperg. After her graduation from Brown in 1989, von Bülow moved to London to join her father after he had been acquitted of the murder of her mother[7] for privacy.[5] Von Bülow's great-grandfather was Frits Toxwerdt von Bülow af Plüskow, a Danish minister of justice.

Personal

Von Bülow attended Brown University where she was classmates, with Vanessa Vadim, Jane Fonda and director Roger Vadim's daughter, and Amy Carter.[6]

Von Bülow has two half-siblings from her mother's first marriage: Annie-Laurie "Ala" Henriette Prinzessin von Auersperg and Alexander-Georg Prinz von Auersperg. After her graduation from Brown in 1989, von Bülow moved to London to join her father after he had been acquitted of the murder of her mother[7] for privacy.[5] Von Bülow's great-grandfather was Frits Toxwerdt von Bülow af Plüskow, a Danish minister of justice.

Personal life

Cosima von Bülow was born 15 April 1967 , in New York City,[3] where she attended the Chapin School.[4] The third child of Sunny von Bülow and the only child of Claus von Bülow, she spent her summers in Newport, Rhode Island at the family estate, Clarendon Court.[5]

Von Bülow attended Brown University where she was classmates, with Vanessa Vadim, Jane Fonda and director Roger Vadim's daughter, and Amy Carter.[6]

Von Bülow has two half-siblings from her mother's first marriage: Annie-Laurie "Ala" Henriette Prinzessin von Auersperg and Alexander-Georg Prinz von Auersperg. After her graduation from Brown in 1989, von Bülow moved to London to join her father after he had been acquitted of the murder of her mother[7] for privacy.[5] Von Bülow's great-grandfather was Frits Toxwerdt von Bülow af Plüskow, a Danish minister of justice.

Personal

Sunny's family remained convinced that Claus had tried to murder her and was upset that Cosima had chosen to take her father's side. As a result, in 1981, Sunny's mother, Annie Laurie Aitken, disinherited Cosima,[8] upon Aitken's death on May 4, 1984, denying her share of the estate.[9] Cosima filed suit claiming that family members had turned Aitken against her.[10] In July 1985, ten days after Claus was acquitted at his second trial, Ala and Alexander filed a $56 million civil lawsuit against him, on their mother's behalf.[10] On December 24, 1987, this case was settled out of court when Claus von Bülow agreed to divorce her, give up all claims to her fortune, then estimated between $25 million and $40 million, and leave the country. In exchange, Cosima was reinstated in Aitken's will and received $30 million as her one-third share of the estate.[8][10]

In 1996, Cosima von Bülow married Count Riccardo Pavoncelli, an Italian nobility|Italian nobleman]] and a banker.[11] He is the son of Giuseppe Pavoncelli and his wife, Rosalba Morelli.[12] He is related to Italian politician Giuseppe Pavoncelli. The couple has three children:

  • Nicolas Antonio Riccardo Pavoncelli (b. 10 August 1998)
  • Marina Gaetana Pavoncelli (b. 20 June 2000)
  • Antonia Carolina Pavoncelli (b. 23 November 2005)[13]

Sunny had remained in a persistent vegetative state until her death outside from cardiopulmonary arrest on December 6, 2008, at Mary Manning Walsh Nursing Home in New York City.[14] Cosima, along with her two half siblings, gave their mother her memorial service, on January 14, 2009, at the Brick Presbyterian Church on the Upper East Side, the same church where the von Bülows married.[15]

Philanthropy

Von Bülow Pavoncelli donates money to education programs and cultural institutions in Britain[16] and environmental causes around the world.[17] She also administers the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund at New York City's Morgan Library & Museum, buying drawings in her mother's name upon the advice of the museum's curators.[18]

She was played by Kristi Hundt and Kara Emerson as her younger self in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close, based on Alan Dershowitz's books about the case against Claus for the alleged murder attempt on his wife, Sunny.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli
8. Christian Borberg
4. Svend Borberg
9. Caroline Amalie Dorothea Ernestine Thea de Hofman-Schmidt
2. Claus von Bülow
10. Frits Toxwerdt von Bülow-Plüskow
5. Jonna von Bülow-Plüskow
11. Fanny Augusta Frederikke Poulsen
1. Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli
12. Ebenezer Crawford
6. George Washington Crawford
13. Elizabeth Wilson
3. Sunny von Bülow
14. Robert Nathaniel Warmack
7. Annie Laurie Warmack
15. Martha Sharp

References

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  2. ^ Zilkha, Bettina (2004). Ultimate Style – The Best of the Best Dressed List. Assouline. p. 161. ISBN 2-84323-513-8.
  3. ^ "Skeel-Holbek, Schaffalitzky de Muckadell Stamtavler over danske adelsslægter – Cosima Borberg von Bülow". Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Dominick Dunne on Claus von Bülow, the Fifth Avenue Socialite Accused of Trying to off His Heiress Wife". Vanity Fair. 6 February 2008.
  5. ^ a b Norwich, William (November 2010). "At Home With Cosima" (PDF). Town and Country.
  6. ^ Trott, William C. (30 August 1985). "BROWN TO EDUCATE FAMOUS DAUGHTERS". UPI.
  7. ^ "Notorious Still – The Headline-Making Von Bulow Case Started 20 Years Ago. Where Are the Players Now?". Archive. 11 December 2000. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  8. ^ a b Gribben, Mark. "The Claus von Bulow Case". Crimelibrary.com. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2008.
  9. ^ "Annie Laurie Aitken". New York Times. 5 May 1984. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
  10. ^ a b c Hevesi, Dennis (24 December 1987). "Von Bulow Says He Will Drop Claim to Money". New York Times. Retrieved 7 December 2008.
  11. ^ "Lazard's Pavoncelli starts own advisory and investment firm". Investment Banking. Financial News. 11 May 2010. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  12. ^ "Genealogy". The Family Home Page. Francesco Federico Pavoncelli. 2002–2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  13. ^ "Telegraph announcements". The Telegraph. 2005. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  14. ^ Nemy, Enid (6 December 2008). "Sunny von Bülow, 76, Focus of Society Drama, Dies". The New York Times.
  15. ^ Dunne, Dominick. "Sunny Memories." Vanity Fair. January 30, 2009.
  16. ^ "Individual Supporters and Major Donors Gold". Donmar Warehouse.
  17. ^ "'Thirty Six For Coral' Art Exhibition - Closing Party And Auction". Getty Images. 20 June 2025.
  18. ^ "Von Bülow Fund Yields Beautiful Nobodies". The New York Observer. 9 April 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
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