Billionaire loonies take the cake for lunacy!
- Friends tell of couple’s squalid life in Belgravia mansion
- She may have been dead for up to a week before police discovered body
Svenska: Tetra Pak-skylt i Lund (Photo credit: Wikipedia) - Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, in secure medical facility receiving treatment
- His father Hans built up a £5.4bn fortune with packaging firm Tetra Pak
- Eva posted photos of her posing in a bikini on MySpace
- Online ‘biography’ talks about her devotion to ‘loyal’ husband and 4 children
- Discusses long history with drugs and how she had fallen ‘back into the same hole as before and been there for 7 years’
- Talks of horoscope which warned her she’d have ‘7 bad years’ and her hopes for ‘7 good years’ ahead
Billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing may have lived with his wife Eva’s dead body for up to four days before it was discovered by police.
Despite living in a vast £15million Belgravia mansion, the couple – who had fought a long battle against addiction to hard drugs – had become increasingly reclusive, confining themselves to two squalid rooms
Details of the extraordinary and tragic lifestyle of one of Britain’s richest couples emerged as Scotland Yard continued to investigate the ‘unexplained death’ of 48-year-old Mrs Rausing.
Investigators now believe the American wife of the 49-year-old heir to the £4.5billion Tetra Pak drinks carton fortune may have been dead for three or four days in an upstairs bedroom of the house before being discovered by police.
He added: ‘It was total squalor. Really messy. You wouldn’t believe they were billionaires. It shows the effects of drugs.
‘They couldn’t look after themselves or their house. They only used two rooms despite having dozens. It’s very sad indeed.’
The couple are said to have become ‘reclusive’ in recent months and when he went out Mr Rausing chose often to use the vast property’s rear entrance.
Last night Mr Rausing was said to be in a secure ‘medical facility’ receiving treatment. He is said not to have suffered any self-inflicted injuries but to be having treatment for a breakdown.
Recent pictures show Mr Rausing to be a shadow of his former self and it is understood that when officers tried to question him – initially about the possession of drugs and hours later about the discovery of his wife’s body – he struggled to speak coherently and failed to answer their questions.
Both Mr and Mrs Rausing – friends of Prince Charles – have fought a long, painful battle against drug addiction and both were cautioned four years ago by Scotland Yard for drug offences.
They met while in a drug rehabilitation centre in the United States and friends say they struggled to beat their addictions.
Socialite Liz Brewer, a friend of Mrs Rausing, said: ‘She was totally addicted and was trying to get off it.
‘The last time I saw her was a couple of months ago. She had cut herself off from people for a while.
‘Eva tried hard to turn things around and went to about every rehab around.
‘I heard she may have been dead in the house for a while, but it was rare for him [Hans] to be out of the house for more than a few hours.’
Jules Hearn, a friend for 15 years, said Mrs Rausing’s death was ‘inevitable’. Mrs Hearn said her friend had resorted to blood transfusions after years of drug abuse, and relied on a pacemaker to regulate her hear
• Hans Kristian Rausing arrested on suspicion of the murder of his wife Eva
• Post-mortem carried out but inconclusive. Further toxicology tests ordered
• Hans Kristian Rausing being treated for alcohol withdrawal
• Small amount of drugs found in car of Hans Kristian Rausing when stopped by police
• Police found lifeless body of Eva Rausing when they searched Chelsea mansion
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