Doris Duke
Born on November 22, 1912, Doris Duke was the only child of James Buchanan (J.B.) Duke, a founder of the American Tobacco Company and Duke Energy Company and a benefactor of Duke University, and Nanaline Holt Duke. Inheriting a bulk of her father's estate in 1925, which included Duke Farms in New Jersey, Rough Point in Newport, R.I., and a mansion in New York City, Doris was soon dubbed by the press as "the richest girl in the world."
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The Murder of Eduardo Tirella
- From Peter Lance's Vogue Article
Doris Duke Heirs Terrible Childhood
Saint Ursula
Eduardo was on his way to appraise a reliquary of Saint Ursula (400CE) that contained one of her bones.
Born on November 22, 1912, Doris Duke was the only child of James Buchanan (J.B.) Duke, a founder of the American Tobacco Company and Duke Energy Company and a benefactor of Duke University, and Nanaline Holt Duke. Inheriting a bulk of her father's estate in 1925, which included Duke Farms in New Jersey, Rough Point in Newport, R.I., and a mansion in New York City, Doris was soon dubbed by the press as "the richest girl in the world."
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The Murder of Eduardo Tirella
In 1966, Eduardo Tirella, curator of Duke's art holdings for the previous decade, decided to leave for a career in Hollywood as a production designer. He flew to Newport, where Duke was staying at Rough Point, on October 6, to collect his belongings and let Duke know that he was leaving her employ. His friends who also knew her had warned him she would not take it well, and the following afternoon the estate's staff overheard the two having a loud and lengthy argument before they got into a rented Dodge Polara to leave.
In Doris Duke's account of events she said Tirella, who had been driving, got out at the gate to open it, leaving the engine running but with the parking brake engaged and the transmission in park. Duke moved from the passenger seat to the driver's seat in order, she said later, to drive the car forward and pick up Tirella once the gate was open. In order to do so she released the parking brake and shifted into drive, but instead of putting her foot on the brake pedal she hit the gas. The vehicle, she told police later, pinned Tirella against the still-opening gates, knocked them over and then struck a tree across. Re-examination of the evidence at the scene is not consistent with this account. Tirella was found trapped under the car on Bellevue Avenue and was pronounced dead of serious injuries soon after. After a brief investigation, the Newport police ruled the death was accidental. Tirella's family sued Doris Duke for wrongful death and won $75,000.
In 2020, Peter Lance, a Newport native who had begun his journalism career at Newport Daily News shortly after the incident, reinvestigated the case in a Vanity Fair article. He found initially that the police file on the case and the transcripts of the wrongful death suit brought by Tirella's family were missing from archives where they would normally be kept, but was able to find some of those documents later. They showed that the investigation into Duke had been cursory and compromised by conflicts of interest (shortly before the medical examiner arrived at the hospital, for instance, Duke had hired him as her personal physician, meaning anything she told him was protected by doctor-patient privilege).
What Lance was able to find showed that Duke's account of the incident had changed and was inconsistent with the evidence. The parking brake could not have been released the way she said she had, and all of Tirella's injuries were above his waist, which suggests he was not trapped between the car and the gates when it broke through. The deep grooves left by the Polara's rear tires in the gravel suggested considerably more acceleration than what might have resulted from an accidental depression of the gas pedal. Lance, and several other experts who reviewed the evidence, concluded that it was far more likely that Duke had deliberately run Tirella over out of rage at his decision to leave her for Hollywood. This evidence would be more consistent with Doris Duke running Eduardo Tirella down just outside the gates. Having been flung over the hood of her car he came to rest in the road. At that point she proceeded to run the stricken man over resulting in his death.
- From Peter Lance's Vogue Article
Moreover, in many vehicles of that era the driver engaged the parking brake with his left foot and released it by pulling back on it. Still, it was difficult to believe, knowing Duke as well as he did, that Tirella would leave the car in drive—and turn his back on her—whether the parking brake was on or not. In fact, the owner’s manual of the 1966 Dodge Polara clears things up. The parking brake on that model could only be disengaged by pulling a release lever located on the left side of the dashboard by hand.
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Doris Duke was on the accelerator for at least three seconds before the vehicle went through the gates. There is no evidence that Mr. Tirella was pinned against them. It’s clear that he went up on the hood, fell off, and got run over, mid-street. This was a multi-sequence event in which the driver made a number of affirmative decisions in the course of the incident.
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Within weeks of his funeral, Duke took possession of the Saint Ursula reliquary—the artifact she’d asked him to appraise the evening she killed him. Eventually, Duke positioned it on a table in the main hall at the foot of the mansion’s large staircase. Every evening thereafter, when she went up to bed, that statue was there to remind her of “that horrible night.”
After Duke died, the old staff remembered how she had referred to that piece not as Saint Ursula, but Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music, whose feast day was November 22. That happened to be Doris Duke’s own birthday. In the end, this narcissistic woman—with enough money and power to view the world entirely through her own distorted lens—had even managed to recast that last work of art into her own image.
Doris Duke Heirs Terrible Childhood
The teenage twin heirs to the billion-dollar Doris Duke tobacco fortune revealed on Thursday harrowing tales of abuse and misery they had suffered, including being forced to play Russian roulette, sliced with knives and scalded with boiling water. In their first TV interview, 16-year-old siblings Georgia and Walker “Patterson” Inman III told Dr. Phil that despite being born into immense wealth, they endured immense cruelty at the hands of caretakers.
“[They] would play Russian roulette with us,” Georgia said of their nannies. “They thought it was funny. They’d load the gun, spin it and shoot it at me and my brother.” The teens said they were regularly shoved into the basement of their Wyoming mansion and locked up for days. “People see this luxurious life, but at the same time, we were living in hell,” Patterson told Dr. Phil.
The twins said they suffered abuse from more than 50 caretakers over the years. Georgia even endured cruelty at the hands of her father, Walker Inman Jr., the nephew of Doris Duke. Inman Jr. died of a drug overdose in 2010. He “used to slice my feet up with knives,” Georgia said. She also said her drug-addled dad would pick her up and drop her on her head “because he wanted to make me stupid.”
The twins also said they were occasionally dropped in a bathtub filled with hot water. “It’d scald us really bad,” Georgia said. “I thought my skin was melting away. It feels like you’re on fire.”
Patterson explained how it was sad for him to witness his father on drugs. “He was always high,” Patterson said. “That was kind of sad, you know, seeing him nodding out and drooling and leaning back and forth with his legs crossed. I saw that every day.”
Patterson also told a horrific story about how he was tortured and forced to eat his own excrement. “They were feeding me my own s–t,” he explained. “I just remember being in the basement and they were like pretending it was food,” he said. “They were like, ‘Chew! Chew!’ ”
The twins are set to inherit the fortune from the estate of Doris Duke when they reach the age of 21. They now live in Utah with their ex-stripper mom, Daisha Inman, their father’s third wife. Daisha is currently locked in a legal battle, over her handling of the money, with executives who administer the twins’ hefty trust funds.
Saint Ursula
Eduardo was on his way to appraise a reliquary of Saint Ursula (400CE) that contained one of her bones.
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