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.
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