Show BY JAMES BRADY v n t ( v : V' fl Vs £ r i I - t-- c : x : i X 1 v k I- t V v Mow hi Maohattao frtwiit that Mougerf to Ms wife whwc fortune is betnc fought for hi court Vm F YOU WERE CASTING an elegant if slightly raffish European nobleman as the prime suspect in an Agatha murChristie drawing-rooder mystery you could do worse than to considcrClaus von Billow m lor the role He is a tali handsome exquisitely mannered man in well-cclothes whose snobbish dis-damight remind you of the actor George Sanders and whose accent derives more from his education in Brit-ui- n ut m at Cambridge University than tmm the Denmark he fled as a hoy in wartime A year ago this Tuesday a jury in Providence RI acquitted von Bulow of attempting on two consecutive Christmases to murder his heiress wife Sunny with lethal injections ol insulin It was his second trial An earlier conviction had been overturned on appeal and the second trial cleared him completely two cnildren hy earlier marriage have now sued in civil court to keep their mother's fortune— esti Sunns s an mated a: more than SSO milium — out ot Claus hands He is fighting the case saying that he does so to see that his and Sunny's beautiful blond daughter college' student gets her "fair snare ol the estate Meanwhile Sunny lies m an irreversible coma m a New York hospital year-ol- d Co-smi- a story thai von Hulow himscll admits has "all the It is a of a Dallas 01 D " He talks ol hecom- - dements nat ing a '‘hermit" of going into exile in Europe Meanw'hiie he and his companion of several years a glamorous Hungarian grandmother named Andrea Reynolds live grandly in a Fifth Avenue apartment that belonged to Sunny Not quite yei a “hermit" he lectures at Harvaid Law School (he is a member of the English hari writes reviews of hooks about his old boss J Paul Getty and appears on the Larry King talk show while Mrs Reynolds negotiates a million-dollhook deal with Simon & Schuster to write her own version of what happened Earlier this year 1 dined with them at the apartment The other guests incl uded the author Norman Mailer Alan Dershnwitz the Harvard professor who defended von Bulow on appeal the editors ot the Sew York Host and Sew York magazine and ar Khersocially acceptable peo-pi- e There are those who w ould cross the street rather than he seen with Claus Over cocktails he tells ghost stories pats his yellow dog Tiger charms his guests You think hack to that courtroom j year ain when in his only snow ol emotion he put his head mio his hands as his innocence was declared He is such a calm assured enmpetem tigure you cannot help thinking that if he had aitempied murder he would not have botched it Did he do if’ He says no and seems at peace w itn mmself A vear ayo m Pro- idencc a iury ol his peers rendered the only verdict that counts no: guilty - yea rafter one of the mmt headlined erotic trial in A memory Martha (Sunny) ron Baton tie a unrnotrintj in a coma irh He her hunt mid ha famoun foth in for dinner WAC 22 JUNE t 1MC MMUtr MKAZMC |