DENVER -- A former Aspen socialite, charged in the bomb death of her wealthy husband, has been arrested in Austria.

Pamela Phillips is the ex-wife of Arizona businessman Gary Triano, who was killed in 1996 when his car exploded in the parking lot of a Tucson, Ariz., country club. He died after playing a round of golf on his 53rd birthday. Friends were waiting to take him to a surprise birthday party when they learned he had been killed.

Arizona authorities alleged that Phillips moved to Aspen after the divorce and then paid her lover $400,000 to kill her ex-husband. Authorities said she wanted to collect a $2 million life insurance policy left for their two children, but held by Phillips, until the children turned 18.

Police said Phillips' lover, Ronald Young, 66, was the man who placed the pipe bomb in a canvas bag and put it on the passenger seat of the Lincoln Town Car that Triano was driving when he was killed in Arizona.

Although Phillips and Young were "persons of interest" in the slaying, no arrests were made until October 2008, when Young was apprehended in Yorba Linda, Calif., after an Arizona grand jury issued an indictment on charges of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and first-degree murder.

Young pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and is awaiting a February trial.

Authorities in Pima County, Ariz., said detectives had been watching Phillips' Aspen, home in anticipation of arresting her shortly after Young's arrest, but they didn't realize she wasn't home. They later learned she had flown to Milan Italy a month before Young's arrest.

Phillips was wanted on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, in connection with her husband's death but she was arrested at a hotel in Vienna, Thursday, on a money laundering charge issued by the small country of Lichtenstein. Details of that case were not immediately available.