Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli

Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli

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She later became known in international society circles as Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli following her marriage in 1996 to Italian banker Count Riccardo Pavoncelli.
She later became known in international society circles as Cosima von Bülow Pavoncelli following her marriage in 1996 to Italian banker Count Riccardo Pavoncelli.


==Early life and family==
==Early life==
Cosima von Bülow was born on April 15, 1967, in [[New York City]].{{cite news|title=At Home With Cosima|last=Norwich|first=William|work=Town & Country|date=November 2010}} She attended the [[Chapin School]] in New York City.{{cite news|author=Dominick Dunne|title=Sunny Memories|work=Vanity Fair|date=January 30, 2009}}
Cosima von Bülow was born on April 15, 1967, in [[New York City]].{{cite news|title=At Home With Cosima|last=Norwich|first=William|work=Town & Country|date=November 2010}} She is the daughter of [[Sunny von Bülow]] and [[Claus von Bülow]], and the third child of her mother. She has two older half-siblings from her mother’s first marriage, Ala von Auersperg and Alexander von Auersperg. She attended the [[Chapin School]] in New York City{{cite news|author=Dominick Dunne|title=Sunny Memories|work=Vanity Fair|date=January 30, 2009}} and [[Brown University]].{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/08/30/BROWN-TO-EDUCATE-FAMOUS-DAUGHTERS/3886494222400/|last=Trott|first=William C.|title=Brown to Educate Famous Daughters|website=United Press International|date=August 30, 1985|access-date=14 April 2026}}


She spent parts of her childhood at her family’s residence, Clarendon Court, in [[Newport, Rhode Island]].{{cite news|title=At Home With Cosima|last=Norwich|first=William|work=Town & Country|date=November 2010}} Following her mother’s legal case and the subsequent acquittal of Claus von Bülow in 1985, Cosima moved to [[London]] to live with her father.{{cite news|author=Dennis Hevesi|title=Von Bülow Says He Will Drop Claim to Money|work=The New York Times|date=December 24, 1987}}
She is the daughter of [[Sunny von Bülow]] and [[Claus von Bülow]], and the third child of her mother. She has two older half-siblings from her mother’s first marriage, Ala von Auersperg and Alexander von Auersperg.

She spent parts of her childhood at her family’s residence, Clarendon Court, in [[Newport, Rhode Island]].{{cite news|title=At Home With Cosima|last=Norwich|first=William|work=Town & Country|date=November 2010}}

Following her mother’s legal case and the subsequent acquittal of Claus von Bülow in 1985, Cosima moved to [[London]] to live with her father.{{cite news|author=Dennis Hevesi|title=Von Bülow Says He Will Drop Claim to Money|work=The New York Times|date=December 24, 1987}}

Her paternal ancestry includes Frits Toxwerdt von Bülow af Plüskow, a Danish jurist who served as Minister of Justice in [[Denmark]].{{cite news|title=At Home With Cosima|last=Norwich|first=William|work=Town & Country|date=November 2010}}

==Education==
Von Bülow attended [[Brown University]]. While at Brown, she was a classmate of several other prominent students, including Vanessa Vadim, daughter of filmmaker [[Roger Vadim]] and actress [[Jane Fonda]], and [[Amy Carter]], daughter of U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]].{{cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/08/30/BROWN-TO-EDUCATE-FAMOUS-DAUGHTERS/3886494222400/|last=Trott|first=William C.|title=Brown to Educate Famous Daughters|website=United Press International|date=August 30, 1985|access-date=14 April 2026}}


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==

Cosima von Bülow was portrayed as a child by Kristi Hundt and Kara Emerson in the 1990 film ''[[Reversal of Fortune]]'', directed by [[Barbet Schroeder]]. The film dramatises the legal case involving her father, [[Claus von Bülow]], who was tried for the attempted murder of his wife, [[Sunny von Bülow]]. The film stars [[Jeremy Irons]] as Claus von Bülow and [[Glenn Close]] as Sunny von Bülow, and is based in part on the account of defence attorney [[Alan Dershowitz]], particularly his book ''Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case'' (1985).{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100486/|title=Reversal of Fortune (1990)|website=IMDb|access-date=14 April 2026}}
Cosima von Bülow was portrayed as a child by Kristi Hundt and Kara Emerson in the 1990 film ''[[Reversal of Fortune]]'', directed by [[Barbet Schroeder]]. The film dramatises the legal case involving her father, [[Claus von Bülow]], who was tried for the attempted murder of his wife, [[Sunny von Bülow]]. The film stars [[Jeremy Irons]] as Claus von Bülow and [[Glenn Close]] as Sunny von Bülow, and is based in part on the account of defence attorney [[Alan Dershowitz]], particularly his book ''Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case'' (1985).{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100486/|title=Reversal of Fortune (1990)|website=IMDb|access-date=14 April 2026}}