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Billionaire junkie too ill for wife murder probe

Cops wait to quiz Hans Kristian Rausing


Gaunt ... Hans Kristian Rausing pictured in May

By TOM MORGAN
14th July 2012

COPS were last night waiting to interview billionaire junkie Hans Kristian Rausing after arresting him on suspicion of murdering his wife Eva.

The 49-year-old Tetra Pak heir has been unfit to speak to police since being taken to a secure hospital on Tuesday with drug and alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

At yesterday’s opening of an inquest into the death of mother-of-four Eva, 48, Detective Inspector Sharon Marman said: “Mr Rausing has been arrested on suspicion of her murder and we await notification of when he will be fit to be interviewed.”

Eva’s decomposing body was discovered by officers in a bedroom at their £50million mansion in London’s Belgravia on Monday after Rausing was initially arrested for suspected drugs offences.

Pathologists have been unable so far to find a cause of death, suggesting she had been dead for some time. Barrister Neil Saunders QC, who acted for victims at the 7/7 bombings inquest, will represent Swedish-born Rausing, Westminster Coroner’s Court heard.

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“She came back home to get him to go return with her. Unfortunately, I think the flying did something with her heart. Eva had never gone back to the doctor after the valve had been replaced. I think it was this flying back and forth from California to London that may have cost her.”

Nancy also revealed last night that Eva got hooked on hard drugs while studying at the same American college as a young Barack Obama.

She was at Occidental College in Los Angeles in the 1980s when the future US President was also there. Nancy said: “Eva was four years behind him. I don’t know if they met. She went there to study pharmacology. Her first encounter with hard drugs was at the college.” Obama has admitted using marijuana and cocaine around that time.

Police suspect Rausing may have lived with Eva’s body in a bedroom for a week or more. Scotland Yard said last night her death remained “unexplained”.

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By the time the third generation comes around, the work ethic has often dissolved, and the punishing combination of too much money, entitlement and sycophancy can lead to disaster. “It wasn’t that he was spoilt by his parents,” says the Rausing family friend of Hans, “it’s just the terrible effect of a great deal of money.”

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And that’s why the British aristocracy is so skilled at producing drug addicts. Forget three generations: a millennium of well-cushioned entitlement is the ideal Petri dish for nourishing addiction.

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Of course, there are plenty of drug addicts who develop habits without access to Brideshead Castle or a packaging fortune; and there are plenty of Gettys, and Rausings, too, who don’t fall prey to addiction. But, if you are the addictive type, class and money don’t help. For a while, they provide insulation against the logical conclusions of drug addiction. When Eva Rausing was caught with crack at the US Embassy in London four years ago, she was let off with only a caution; a down-and-out would have been slammed in jail. Court fines are nothing to the billionaire addict; criminal silks cheap at the price.

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The super-rich can maintain the facade – there are always a few sycophants happy to share the Tuscan villa, however zonked out the hosts are. Attentive gigolos and gold-digging girlfriends aren’t hard to find; the raised-print invitations keep tumbling through the letterbox. The Filipina maids clear up the mess; the drug dealer comes to you, minimising any chance of arrest.

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In the same way, the usual rules don’t apply to the rich addict. They have no brakes on their habit – no overdraft, no criticism from the hangers-on, no lonely nights on their own. Well, no brakes except the universal one – the physical capacity of the human body to withstand poison.

more at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9392206/Money-and-drugs-the-lethal-cocktail-for-Eva-Rausing.html

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