Man, that’s one hell of an obituary:
Count Gottfried von Bismarck
Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.The great-great-grandson of Prince Otto, Germany’s Iron Chancellor and architect of the modern German state, the young von Bismarck showed early promise as a brilliant scholar, but led an exotic life of gilded aimlessness that attracted the attention of the gossip columns from the moment he arrived in Oxford in 1983 and hosted a dinner at which the severed heads of two pigs were placed at either end of the table.
I bet the writer had fun writing that. “a life of gilded aimlessness”, that’s some good phrasing.
Go read the whole thing. You won’t believe it.
After reading it I had to dig up a picture. Apparently he looked like this:
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