Dead at 44 from heroin overdose does not indicate a happy life. Nonetheless if you gotta go (and we all do) going out with a bitchin' obituary makes up for a lot.
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.
