(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120717-eva-rausing-jsw-7a.photoblog600.jpg)Dave Benett / Getty, fileEva Rausing and her husband Hans Kristian Rausing appear at an event in 2010.By ReutersLONDON -- The American wife of one of Britain's richest men, whose body lay rotting at their London home for two months after her death, died from cocaine abuse, a coroner said Friday.
Eva Rausing, whose husband Hans is heir to a fortune from the Swedish packaging firm Tetra Pak, was found in July (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/10/12665919-us-born-heiress-found-dead-in-london-mansion?lite) in an advanced state of decomposition under layers of clothes and garbage bags in a fly-infested room on the second floor of their six-story townhouse in an upmarket area of London.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) The 48-year-old's body was only discovered after police officers went to their house after stopping her husband for driving erratically.
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