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Chandi lives on the horse farm now and operates a very modest charity called the CDH Foundation, with total assets of $ 2 million. After Tirella's death, she seemed consumed with the idea of actually becoming a performer. Her second husband, Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, fared only slightly better: His divorce settlement was estimated at $1 million. She was also active in preserving more than 80 historic buildings in Newport, Rhode Island. Heffner, who lives on the Big Island of Hawaii on a ranch that Duke previously purchased for her, said in court papers that after their February 1991 breakup she learned that Duke had made changes in her will, and "the estate has not been left to Chandi as Doris had agreed." Doris told Chandi that she was happy about her having a man in her life. So I fixed another tray and brought it upstairs. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. She really considered herself a dancer. Shangri-La is operated by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; small personal tours and an online virtual tour are available. And he would tell me, 'Miss Heffner's complaining.' The legal challenges flooded in, in a queue headed by Chandi Heffner (a grown woman adopted, then disowned, by Duke), a doctor named as executor in a previous will and three former Duke servants. It would come back. Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with whom Duke was friends, was the vice president and publicly supported the foundation. This Grand Marnier was so old the labels had been written by hand. Heffner takes credit for everything from improving the dairy herd at Duke Farms to arranging the sale of Duke's gold deposits in Switzerland. She was very intelligent and very together. "She used to come and see me and just cry," says singer Peggy Lee, who was friendly with Tirellaand who would later employ Bernard Lafferty as a butler. [15] She studied singing with Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills, in New York City. "I was not aware of his drinking problem when I placed him there, but I did inform Chandi [before sending him to Doris Duke's]. Nicolas mother, Claudia, has a sister we havent forgotten about. But she had a dramatic change in her lifeand it was weird. ", "Doris wanted the things money couldn't buy. He spent many weekends at a guesthouse at Duke Farms and was her escort when she went into the city for lunches and dinners with friends such as Diana Vreeland, Nan Kempner, and Kenneth Jay Lane. . We knock, we bang, we yell. There was lack of ostentation. Stotesbury. [69], Litigation involving 40 lawyers at 10 law firms tied up the Duke estate for nearly three years. In addition, Duke had a collection of artwork, which was said to include works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Monet, as well as her valuable collection of Islamic and Southeast Asia art and furniture. He was cooking and she was serving. She appointed her butler, Bernard Lafferty, as executor of her estate. Burns said that he was also training Lafferty, to help him lose his paunch. It was clear that something adverse was going on in the latter part of 1990 in Hawaii. That's not the Doris I knew. 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. He died as he had lived in recent years, in flamboyant splendour, in his 8,000 sq ft Los Angeles home, a $2 million Bel Air fantasy, decorated with enormous silver urns, formal oil paintings and. This was an adoption on both sides of love, deep affection, respect, companionship and common interest, he said. Chandi lives on the horse farm now and operates a very modest charity called the CDH Foundation, with total assets of $ 2 million. But she got up again, and we did our steps. For the Beckhams, this marriage is like sinking the best goal ever. Until Doris Duke's death, this would be her principal residence. If so, wrote Donders, "interposing into the process some new components of . ", Heffner wryly noted that Bernard Lafferty, accompanied by a bodyguard and chauffeur, had sat through her depositions wearing a five-carat-diamond earring, a diamond bracelet, and a diamond watch. She was ahead of her time. We used to sit in the sunroom with these tiny bits of broken porcelain and she'd say, 'It's got to be fixed, and I can do it better than most people.' [35], 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. Love. When I go I'll be eaten by the sharks.". We use cookies to personalize & enhance your experience. Lee told me, "Ten or 15 years ago, I went to sing in the Versailles Room at the old Bellevue, and Bernard was the manager of the room, and we became friends. Because of her great wealth, Duke's marriage to Rubirosa attracted the attention of the U.S. State Department, which cautioned her against using her money to promote a political agenda.

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