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June 10, 2008

Today in history: Claus von Bulow acquitted

Journal photo / Frieda Squires
Claus von Bulow outside Superior Court in Providence on June 9, 1985. Then-Journal reporter Alan Rosenberg, who was covering the trial, is in the background.

On this day in 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.

The year before, he had been found guilty of the charges against him in a high-profile trial in Newport.

When the case came back a second time, to Providence, The Journal's Alan Rosenberg, now our South County regional editor, was the newspaper's lead reporter.

Last year, he wrote a column recalling those days, when the court appearances of von Bulow were covered like he was visiting royalty -- or Paris Hilton.

A few months later, he followed up on the whereabouts of Sunny von Bulow. Today, she's in a nursing home somewhere in New York City, according to various online sources, Rosenberg says.

Read more about other events in history today.

Watch a video of highlights from today in history.

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