The Megyn Kelly Show - July 28, 2026


A Double Dose of Privilege： The Coma at Clarendon Court — Ep. 1 ｜ MK Confidential


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00:00:36.140 Clarendon Court is one of the grandest houses on one of the grandest streets in America.
00:00:42.500 The mansion's wrought iron gates form the backdrop of Grace Kelly's final movie
00:00:46.820 before she retires to become the Princess of Monaco.
00:00:50.180 A beautiful, wealthy, high-class woman marrying into aristocracy,
00:00:55.200 a kind of modern fairy tale. In 1980, the Newport, Rhode Island mansion belongs to a real-life
00:01:02.580 beautiful, wealthy, high-class woman and her aristocrat husband. But behind those wrought
00:01:08.740 iron gates and gold inlaid doors, the real tale is grim. It is the morning of December 21st.
00:01:17.120 The winter sun shines on the sandstone walls of Clarendon Court, an oceanfront property exposed
00:01:22.580 to the bitter wind off the water. Inside, a 49-year-old woman lies unconscious on the cold
00:01:29.120 marble floor of her bathroom. She liked to sleep in a cold room, and the night before she had asked
00:01:35.520 for her windows to be left open to the Atlantic. With the wind chill well below zero, the room
00:01:40.640 turned frigid. By morning, she has gone ice cold to the touch. Her body temperature falls into the
00:01:48.060 low 80s. Her heart stops. The paramedics bring her back, but only part of the way. Martha Von
00:01:55.980 Bulow, the woman everyone calls Sunny, falls into a coma. She will never regain consciousness.
00:02:04.140 This would be a private tragedy if not for an eerie wrinkle. This exact scene has happened
00:02:09.620 before. One year earlier, almost to the day, in the same house, in the same wing, the same woman
00:02:16.980 was found unconscious on the same floor. That time, a doctor reached her in time. That time
00:02:24.120 she woke up. One woman, two Christmases, two comas, and in between them, a husband, a devoted
00:02:32.400 maid, a locked closet, and a small black bag that the state of Rhode Island will one day hold up in
00:02:39.080 a courtroom and call the weapon. The man at the center of it is Sonny's husband, a Danish-born
00:02:46.220 aristocrat named Klaus von Bülow. Twice a jury will be asked whether he tried to murder his wife.
00:02:54.060 Twice the jury will be shown nearly the same evidence. This is the story of a case that ended
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00:04:22.620 To understand how two medical emergencies one year apart
00:04:26.720 become allegations of attempted murder, we have to start with the marriage.
00:04:31.940 From the beginning, it is a match of opposites.
00:04:35.280 Klaus von Bülow is not born an aristocrat. 0.67
00:04:38.400 He is not even born a Bülow.
00:04:40.120 He comes into the world as Klaus Borberg in Copenhagen in the summer of 1926.
00:04:47.200 His father, Svend Borberg, is a Danish playwright and drama critic,
00:04:52.160 a clever, cultured man whose sympathy for Nazi Germany will destroy his life and reputation. 0.71
00:04:59.040 He admires the Germans, and he goes on admiring them after they occupy Denmark in 1940.
00:05:05.140 He dines, as his son will one day put it, with the wrong people.
00:05:10.120 In Klaus's own words, years later, his father, quote, gave a good name to a bad cause.
00:05:16.260 When the war ends, the reckoning comes.
00:05:19.380 Sven Borberg is tried as a Nazi collaborator and convicted.
00:05:23.160 The conviction is later overturned on appeal, but the name Borberg, once perfectly respectable,
00:05:29.660 has become an embarrassment.
00:05:31.980 So Klaus escapes it.
00:05:33.660 He takes the name of his mother's father, Fritz Bülow, a former Danish minister of
00:05:39.300 justice, a name that stands for precisely the respectability his father's name has lost.
00:05:45.860 Then there's the Vaughn. It comes later, and how it got there has fascinated people ever since.
00:05:52.860 To much of the press, it is an embellishment, a whisper of old German nobility attached to a
00:05:59.720 borrowed name by a man assembling himself for the world. Klaus tells it differently. He says
00:06:06.540 the Bulos are entitled to the Vaughan by blood, and that it was Sonny who wanted her second 0.98
00:06:12.000 husband to carry one. Sonny's former in-laws, the Vaughan Auerzbergs, say he has no right to it at 0.94
00:06:18.460 all. What no one disputes is the effect. By the time he reaches the drawing rooms of London and
00:06:24.800 New York, the aristocrat is, at least in part, a work of his own composition. He studies law at
00:06:32.520 Cambridge, goes to work as an aide to J. Paul Getty, then the richest man in the world. He is
00:06:38.460 tall, polished, quick with a dry, cutting wit, the ideal plus one for a dinner party. In society,
00:06:45.760 they call the Copenhagen native the Great Dane. Years later, on trial, Klaus would itemize the
00:06:52.760 ingredients of his own mystique with the detachment of a collector. I think there are certain aspects
00:06:58.880 like the aura of the name Newport. My wife's first marriage gives it a certain cutis. My work
00:07:06.880 years past for Mr. Getty gives it a certain interest. One of the lawyers who would eventually
00:07:12.400 represent him, Alan Dershowitz, describes the two men inside Klaus. It's almost as if there are two
00:07:18.780 Klaus von Willow's and he presses a button when he walks into a room. There's the public austere
00:07:22.620 Klaus von Willow, which he sits there as his current woman friend put it, as if he were a
00:07:28.760 mortician with an umbrella up his back. And then there's the warm Klaus von Bulow, very caring.
00:07:35.300 Sunny is the money. She's born Martha Sharp Crawford in 1931, the only child of a utilities
00:07:43.440 magnate who dies when she is only four years old and leaves her something on the order of
00:07:48.800 $75 million, a staggering fortune in any era, and especially in the years this story takes place,
00:07:56.220 an inheritance that would be worth nearly $2 billion by today's standards.
00:08:02.040 She is shy, private, and happiest out of the spotlight.
00:08:06.400 The writer Dominic Dunn knew her for years before she was found on that bathroom floor.
00:08:11.920 Sonny von Bülow was one of America's great heiresses.
00:08:14.800 She was a very beautiful woman.
00:08:16.320 I had been to Sonny von Bülow's coming out party when she was a debutante.
00:08:20.480 In 1957, Sonny marries an Austrian prince, Alfred von Auerzberg,
00:08:26.220 and has two children, Alla and Alexander. By the mid-60s, thanks in part to his infidelities and
00:08:33.480 her homesickness, that marriage is over. She brings her children to America, and in 1966,
00:08:40.960 marries Klaus. A year later, they have their own daughter, Cosima. And away from the gowns and the
00:08:47.500 society columns, Sonny's days have an ordinary, regular routine to them. She wakes late, near 11,
00:08:54.540 and spends the first hour of every morning on the telephone with her mother.
00:08:58.940 She shops, she lunches, she changes into lounging clothes and watches television.
00:09:04.700 She keeps to herself.
00:09:06.540 And at night, she sleeps surrounded by her dogs, a pair of Labradors up on the bed.
00:09:12.060 The family lives on Sonny's money.
00:09:14.520 Everyone in Newport understands the arithmetic,
00:09:17.280 which no one mentions until it is admitted inside a courtroom.
00:09:21.940 Clarendon Court, the oceanfront mansion, which they call a cottage, is hers.
00:09:28.100 The 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue is hers.
00:09:31.860 The staff, the cars, the season in Newport, the whole life among princes and industrialists,
00:09:38.180 all of it is hers.
00:09:40.200 Klaus draws a comfortable income, about $120,000 a year, but it comes out of a trust she sets
00:09:47.360 up for him, which is another way of saying it is an allowance.
00:09:51.320 Among the old families, quietly, he is regarded as a kept man.
00:09:56.620 And there is between them a prenuptial agreement with terms that will one day prove enormously important.
00:10:03.500 If Klaus and Sonny divorce, Klaus walks away with almost nothing.
00:10:08.160 If Sonny dies, well, that is another matter entirely.
00:10:11.660 But if Sonny was dead, then he would have title to a house in Rhode Island,
00:10:17.820 They're a wonderful apartment in Manhattan and a great deal of money.
00:10:23.300 Sonny's stepfather, the big game hunter, Russell Aitken, does not hide his contempt.
00:10:30.400 He tells Dominic Dunn, on the record,
00:10:32.680 Klaus is a Cambridge-educated con man with legal training, 0.99
00:10:36.860 amoral, greedy as a wolverine, and cold-blooded as a snake. 0.99
00:10:41.720 And I apologize, Aitken adds, to the snake. 0.98
00:10:45.300 One friend puts it to Dunn this way,
00:10:46.920 quote, the problem with Klaus is that he does not dwell in the palace of truth. He's a fake. 0.72
00:10:53.500 Klaus is a Trump loi, a trick of the eye, something painted to look like what it is not. 0.98
00:11:00.340 One person sees this marriage from the inside every day. Her name is Maria Schralhammer,
00:11:07.080 and she is Sonny's personal maid, a small, graying German woman who speaks in heavily
00:11:12.960 accented English and has been at Sonnyside for 23 years. She is fiercely loyal to Sonny. So
00:11:20.540 protective is she of Sonny's privacy that she will refuse to tell even Klaus's own lawyers
00:11:26.400 that Sonny once had a facelift because she had promised Sonny she would never tell.
00:11:32.160 If anyone sees the marriage up close, it's Maria. I'm not going to answer the question because I
00:11:38.020 By the late 1970s, the von Bulo marriage is cold.
00:11:44.280 Separate bedrooms, separate routines, and Sunny is not well.
00:11:49.060 Her doctors diagnose reactive hypoglycemia.
00:11:52.700 Her blood sugar can crash on its own, and when it does, she turns confused and unsteady and slurred,
00:11:58.720 the way a person does when they've had far too much to drink.
00:12:02.760 She keeps herself going on sweets and aspirin and sedatives like Valium and Secanal,
00:12:08.820 and on alcohol her body can barely handle.
00:12:12.160 It is a real and documented illness, 0.57
00:12:14.680 and it will also one day give the defense a natural explanation for everything that happens to her. 1.00
00:12:21.380 And there is another woman.
00:12:23.620 By the late 70s, Klaus is having an affair with Alexandra Isles.
00:12:28.620 She is not just, as the papers will call her, a soap opera actress,
00:12:32.960 though she does play one on the gothic serial Dark Shadows.
00:12:36.920 Alexandra is royalty, the daughter of a countess, schooled alongside Sonny herself.
00:12:43.240 The family would learn of the affair and testify to how they found out.
00:12:48.160 Klaus told them.
00:12:49.120 I then asked him about Alexandra Isles specifically.
00:12:54.340 He told me that there had been a relationship.
00:12:56.920 And Isles, by most accounts, was pressing Klaus to make a choice.
00:13:01.240 I said, would six months be suitable?
00:13:06.720 He asked me to marry him.
00:13:07.940 That is the pressure Klaus is under by 1980.
00:13:11.160 A marriage that has gone cold and a mistress who wants a decision.
00:13:15.920 Leaving Sonny for another woman would mean leaving the life her money pays for. 0.85
00:13:20.740 Leaving Sonny dead would not.
00:13:22.680 Plenty of men have affairs and unhappy marriages and never harm anyone.
00:13:27.500 That alone proves nothing.
00:13:29.240 But it is the shape of a situation that investigators years later will recognize as motive.
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00:14:36.120 The first collapse comes at Christmas 1979 at Clarendon Court.
00:14:41.940 Sunny fades over a long day,
00:14:44.260 and Maria, who has cared for her for two decades,
00:14:47.240 can see her lady sinking.
00:14:48.800 I went to her and I saw that her right arm was hanging out of the bed and I took her arm and the arm was ice cold. 0.96
00:14:59.060 She hardly could breathe anymore and I thought she would stop any minute now.
00:15:05.560 I got very scared she would die and first I asked Mr. von Bühler to help me to put her up and he said he couldn't help me.
00:15:15.640 So I just picked her up and I was holding her in my arms until the doctor came.
00:15:22.380 Here's the chronology that will trouble everyone later.
00:15:25.780 By Maria's account, she urges Klaus for hours.
00:15:29.580 He first telephones the doctor only in the early afternoon and leaves a message.
00:15:33.940 When the doctor calls him back, Klaus tells him only that Sonny is sleeping off a night of drinking and is told to keep watching her.
00:15:41.440 Not until around six that evening, when her breathing turns to a rattle, does Klaus let
00:15:46.760 the doctor be called for real. The local physician who answers, Dr. Janice Galitis, arrives at the
00:15:53.420 same moment as the ambulance. Galitis clears Sonny's throat with his fingers, strikes her chest,
00:15:59.600 and does CPR until Sonny's heart restarts. He saves her life by a matter of minutes.
00:16:05.720 Within a day, Sonny is awake and recovering. And then Klaus does something a little strange.
00:16:11.440 Weeks later, on January 22, 1980, he sits down and writes the doctor a careful letter.
00:16:18.600 His mother-in-law feels he was slow to get help, so Klaus lays out the timeline his own way
00:16:24.340 and then asks the doctor two direct questions.
00:16:27.800 Have I stated everything fairly?
00:16:29.840 And was I to blame?
00:16:32.240 Two weeks later, Galetus writes back that the collapse was unpredictable
00:16:36.520 and that by recognizing the change in Sonny's condition
00:16:39.860 and calling him, Klaus saved her life.
00:16:43.520 To investigators who read it later,
00:16:45.180 this looks like a man collecting protection on paper
00:16:47.660 the way other men collect receipts.
00:16:50.480 In February 1980, Maria is cleaning a closet 0.75
00:16:54.220 in the Fifth Avenue apartment
00:16:55.640 when she comes across a soft traveling case
00:16:58.460 that Klaus carries back and forth to Newport each week.
00:17:02.340 It is open.
00:17:03.720 Inside it is a smaller case, black vinyl, about six inches long with a zipper around it.
00:17:10.420 Maria opens it.
00:17:12.220 Inside is a little pharmacy, pills and vials.
00:17:16.480 She calls in Sonny's daughter, Ala, and the two women take careful notes.
00:17:21.500 Prescriptions from a Madison Avenue pharmacy, one bottle made out to a Leslie Baxter,
00:17:27.340 another one made out to Klaus von Bülow at an address that does not exist.
00:17:32.200 Maria gets a little of the powder and liquid to Sonny's doctor of nearly 30 years,
00:17:37.020 Dr. Richard Stock.
00:17:39.080 He identifies them, Valium and a barbiturate, Secobarbital.
00:17:44.440 In April, Sonny is hospitalized again, weak and disoriented.
00:17:49.260 The doctors point once more to her blood sugar.
00:17:51.980 Then on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, Maria goes back into the black bag.
00:17:57.240 This time, next to the familiar vials, there is something new.
00:18:01.000 A small bottle labeled insulin.
00:18:04.560 And syringes.
00:18:06.140 Neither Klaus nor Sonny is diabetic.
00:18:08.780 Maria takes the bottle to Sonny's son, Alexander.
00:18:12.160 There was a bottle of insulin added, a syringe and needles.
00:18:18.600 I called Alexander insulin for what insulin?
00:18:22.720 Insulin is the reason this bag matters.
00:18:25.400 To the investigators who eventually build the case,
00:18:27.800 it looks almost ideal for a killer.
00:18:31.000 A large enough insulin dose can drive a person's blood sugar into a fatal coma.
00:18:36.840 And once it has done its work, it is very hard to prove after the fact that an injection ever happened.
00:18:42.940 For now, it is a bottle that has no business in this house,
00:18:46.740 sitting in the private bag of a man whose wife has already suffered one unexplained collapse that nearly killed her.
00:18:53.580 The insulin is not the only alarm that winter.
00:18:56.000 In early December, Sunny takes so much aspirin, she says for a sinus headache,
00:19:01.000 that she is hospitalized for about a week with aspirin poisoning.
00:19:05.320 Around the same time, there is a night when Klaus knocks on Maria's door
00:19:09.220 and tells her not to get excited, but that something has happened.
00:19:13.540 Maria will later say she entered the room and found Sonny in bed,
00:19:17.440 full with blood, with a wound at the back of her head
00:19:21.140 and blood on the pillow and the carpet.
00:19:24.020 Klaus says Sonny got dizzy and fell.
00:19:26.440 Depending on who's telling it,
00:19:27.860 this is either a woman being harmed inside her own home or a fragile, sick woman leaning on pills
00:19:34.560 and drink coming apart on her own. Then, almost a year to the day later, comes the second coma.
00:19:43.040 December 20th, 1980. The family is together at Clarendon Court. Over dinner, Sunny insists
00:19:50.240 on an ice cream sundae with caramel sauce, exactly the kind of sugar her doctors have told her to
00:19:56.600 avoid. Afterward, they go out to the movies to see Dolly Parton in 9 to 5 and then come home.
00:20:04.040 Klaus goes off to his study. Sonny stays up with Alexander and Cosima. As the evening wears on,
00:20:11.600 Sonny's speech starts to slur and thicken. She can't quite hold a conversation. Her son helps
00:20:18.220 her up to her bedroom and gets her into bed. Then Alexander goes back out to meet friends at a bar.
00:20:24.120 When he leaves, his mother is unwell, but talking.
00:20:28.040 The next morning, she does not come down.
00:20:31.860 Sonny is a late sleeper, but after 11 o'clock, Klaus goes up to check on her.
00:20:36.700 He comes back down a few minutes later and motions to Alexander, who follows him upstairs.
00:20:42.440 They find her on the marble floor of the bathroom, unconscious.
00:20:47.120 Her head near the base of the toilet, her lips swollen and bleeding, the sink tap still running.
00:20:53.500 Klaus puts a finger under her nose and says she is still breathing and goes to call for help.
00:20:59.440 Alexander touches his mother's neck, feels that she is ice cold, and covers her with a fur throw.
00:21:06.560 The first responders would never forget the scene.
00:21:11.440 Soon as I walked in the room, Nelpy sighed her. She was in trouble.
00:21:14.960 There was no blood anywhere in the bathroom.
00:21:16.820 Six minutes later, the ambulance arrives and takes her, with Klaus riding along, to the Newport Hospital emergency room.
00:21:24.440 Sunny's body temperature is 81 degrees, her pulse barely there.
00:21:29.920 A few minutes after she arrives, her heart stops, and it takes two doctors to bring her back.
00:21:35.640 From Newport, she is moved to a specialist hospital in Boston, and the scans come back with the answer, no one wants.
00:21:44.100 What the responders remembered was the husband.
00:21:47.520 Mr. Von Bulo looked at this person, who he identified as his wife,
00:21:53.260 with ice-cold blue eyes, and there was absolutely no feeling.
00:22:00.100 He just sat there.
00:22:00.880 The doctors can restart Sonny's heart.
00:22:03.920 They cannot bring back the woman her children knew.
00:22:07.340 She's alive and breathing and gone.
00:22:10.520 And this time, there is no letter, no relief, no narrow escape.
00:22:17.540 There are only questions about what happened in that house the night before.
00:22:22.600 Sonny's family does not accept this as bad luck.
00:22:26.700 In the New York hospital where she is moved, a neurologist tells Alexander and Allah
00:22:31.160 that in his judgment, their mother's coma was caused by injected insulin.
00:22:35.680 And that winter of 1980 into 1981, their stepfather, Klaus, is on the phone with the two of them almost every day, urging them to agree to take Sonny off the machines, appealing by more than one account to their emotions and their finances.
00:22:54.400 The calls only stop when Sonny is taken off the respirator and keeps breathing on her own.
00:23:00.740 So the children decide to act.
00:23:03.640 It is Alexander who says out loud what the others are thinking.
00:23:06.980 Their half-sister, Cosima, is a teenager,
00:23:09.680 and she is living under the same roof
00:23:11.520 as the man they now suspect of trying to murder her mother.
00:23:15.800 Can they leave Cosima there?
00:23:17.940 My mother is a very trusting person.
00:23:20.340 I think nobody really could believe
00:23:23.520 that somebody could be plotting to kill you
00:23:25.680 while at the same time they're being nice to you
00:23:30.000 and telling you they love you.
00:23:31.380 The family's banker, Morris Gurley, urges caution.
00:23:35.380 Before anyone accuses anyone, he says,
00:23:37.760 they should do this quietly and properly and hire a professional.
00:23:41.600 So they hire Richard Q, a former district attorney of Manhattan.
00:23:47.060 His job is not to go to the police, not yet, and not to go to the press.
00:23:53.020 His job is to build the case the family believes is there, statement by statement.
00:23:59.140 They felt there was a need for somebody who knew something about criminal justice and who could conduct some further investigation and do it discreetly.
00:24:10.300 They wanted no publicity unless or until ultimately there was proof of Klaus's guilt.
00:24:18.320 Q sits down first with Alexandra and Ala, and then with Maria, and Maria tells him about that bag, the bottles, the syringes, the insulin, with no patient.
00:24:32.360 Everything the family's suspicion has fastened onto keeps leading back to the same place, the small black case Klaus carries between the houses, and that Maria last saw inside a locked closet at Clarendon Court.
00:24:46.760 To prove anything, someone is going to have to open that closet.
00:24:50.580 Alex said he'd go up and look for the bag.
00:24:53.920 And we had a private investigator, a very skilled one, with whom I'd worked, Eddie Lambert.
00:24:58.840 And I said, no, we'd send Eddie with him, really to protect Alex in case anything untoward happened.
00:25:06.980 On a January day in 1981, they do it.
00:25:11.860 Alexander, the investigator, and a locksmith drive to the shuttered mansion,
00:25:17.220 and the locksmith opens the locked closet.
00:25:20.480 Inside is the bag.
00:25:22.520 In their haste, they take no photographs and lift no fingerprints,
00:25:26.600 a detail the defense will one day make a great deal of.
00:25:30.400 But for now, they simply take the black bag.
00:25:32.780 We knew that there was a pouch and a metal box in my stepfather's closet containing a needle,
00:25:38.200 which then turned out to have insulin and amobarbital on it.
00:25:42.720 There were several other things that had led to suspicions.
00:25:45.300 Everything put together made us believe that we had to go to the police.
00:25:48.780 The family's own doctor tests the bag, finds insulin on the used needle,
00:25:55.560 and tells them plainly, either you take this to the police or I will.
00:26:00.060 And so the case passes to the Rhode Island State Police
00:26:02.600 and to a detective named Jack Reese, who starts over from the beginning.
00:26:09.080 When he interviews Alexander, one thing lands hard,
00:26:12.460 the young man's honesty about the limits of what he actually saw.
00:26:17.080 If he was so determined to build a case against his stepfather,
00:26:21.680 it would have been very easy for him to say, I saw the insulin.
00:26:24.920 He did not.
00:26:26.520 To me, that lent to his credibility.
00:26:30.140 The detective talks to his partner and decides to set a trap for Klaus.
00:26:34.860 The police already have the black bag with a pharmacy inside.
00:26:39.380 They have the used needle and they have a husband who may still believe both are locked away inside Clarendon Court.
00:26:46.700 So Detective Jack Reese and his partner drive to the von Bulow's place in Manhattan and park outside the apartment and wait for Klaus, just watching for their chance.
00:26:58.380 Reese sits in his car, ready to confront Klaus,
00:27:01.000 to ask him a question, to push him,
00:27:03.380 and then watch and see what he does next.
00:27:06.120 What will Klaus do when he thinks no one is watching?
00:27:10.140 That's next time on MK Confidential.
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