Martha Sharp Crawford von Bulow, known as Sunny von Bulow, was one of the most famous figures of the 1950s. After inheriting an estimated $75 million fortune from her father, utilities magnate George Crawford, she became a well-known socialite, whose beauty was often said to resemble that of Grace Kelly.

In 1957, she married Prince Alfred of Auersperg, with whom she had two children, Annie-Laurie and Alexander Georg. However, the couple divorced in 1965 and Sunny tied the knot with Claus von Bulow, a former aide to oil billionaire J.P. Getty.

Their only child, Cosima von Bulow, was born in 1967.

On December 22, 1980, Sunny von Bulow, who suffered from hypoglycemia, was discovered unconscious on the floor of the family’s Newport, Rhode Island, residence, Clarendon Court. In spite of the fact that she was rushed to the hospital, physicians could not revive her.

After spending 28 years in a coma, Sunny von Bulow died on December 6, at the age of 76. She passed away in a New York nursing home, according to a statement released by her family’s spokeswoman.

Claus von Bulow was accused of trying to kill his wife with an overdose of insulin, which prosecutors claimed that provoked her permanent vegetative state. Despite the fact that he was convicted of attempting to murder her twice, Claus von Bulow was acquitted of all charges after the conviction was overturned on appeal.

In the statement issued by Maureen Connelly, Sunny von Bulow’s three children explain that their mother was “extraordinarily loving and caring.”

Following the trials, Annie-Laurie and Alexander Georg founded the Sunny von Bulow National Victim Advocacy Center in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as the Sunny von Bulow Coma and Head Trauma Research Foundation in New York.