Billionaire Hans Rausing Accused Of Murdering His Wife Eva Rausing

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Billionaire Hans Rausing Accused Of Murdering His Wife Eva Rausing

July 14. 2012

Hans Rausing and Eva Rausing in happier times. Sadly, the latter years of their marriage saw the two in a massive drug stupor.

Photos of Eva Rausing, nee Kemeny, 49, in her last days show the terrible effect drugs had on her, as her face was gaunt, drawn and twisted, eyes hollow with confusion and sadness. You could see she was staring death in the face in a fight she lost far too soon, dying at age 48.

By all accounts, Rausing had much to live for, via four kids and a husband, Swedish heir, Hans Kristian Rausing. She lived in a 6-story home in London's Cadogan Place, valued at $80,000,000. Much of her money was due to her husband being heir to the $5.4 billion Tetra Pak fortune (drink cartons) but Rausing also came from a wealthy family in America. She is the daughter of a Pepsi executive, who bought an island off the coast of the U.S. State of South Carolina.

Perhaps having too much led to her downfall. Rausing was arrested in 2008 for smuggling crack cocaine and heroin into a party being held at the U.S. Embassy in London. A subsequent search of their mansion turned up more heroin, crack cocaine and $3,000 of pure cocaine.

Rausing admitted to doing drugs from a very early age, in a habit she never gave up. She even met her husband in rehab twenty years ago, but fell off the wagon a number of times since. Her story is a sad tale in how drugs can destroy lives. May her family and friends find solace in the happy memories she left behind, in what was a turbulent life.