Martha (Sunny) von Bülow, who the New York Times described succinctly as "the American heiress who was first married to an Austrian playboy prince and then to a Danish-born man-about-society who was twice tried on charges of attempting to murder her," died on Saturday at the age of 76. She had been in a coma for nearly three decades. Bülow was a tabloid fixture in the '80s, when, as the Times wrote, "news media from around the world were irresistibly drawn to the drama of the beautiful heiress who lay in a twilight zone." She is survived by three children.
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