Coroner: US-born heiress died from cocaine abuse

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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 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  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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