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Billionaire pleads guilty: Hans Rausing, one of Britain’s richest men, pleaded guilty this week to “preventing the lawful and decent burial” of his American wife, Eva, whose decomposing body was found last month, wrapped in clothes and garbage bags, in their London mansion. An autopsy showed that she had been dead for two months and had cocaine in her system, but the cause of death could not be determined. Rausing, heir to the multi-billion-dollar Tetra Pak drink-carton fortune, said he did not “have a very coherent recollection” of his wife’s death. Her body was discovered only after Rausing was arrested for driving while high. “I do not feel, with the benefit of hindsight, that following her death I acted rationally,” he said. The Rausings met in rehab 25 years ago and continued to have drug addiction problems.

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