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Her foundation, Independent Aid, became the Doris Duke Foundation, which still exists as a private grant-making entity. [66] After her death, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation was established in 1996, supporting four national grant making programs and Doris Duke's three estates, Shangri La, Rough Point, and Duke Farms.
Bernard Lafferty (14 April 1945 – 4 November 1996) was an Irish butler and heir to American tobacco heiress and philanthropist, Doris Duke.Duke hired Lafferty in 1987 and named him the executor of her $1.2 billion estate six months prior to her death in October 1993.
In the May 1955 issue of Confidential, "Doris Duke and Her African Prince" appeared. The story alleged that Doris Duke had an affair with a "Negro handyman and chauffeur," whom the article said she once employed. [98] In July 1955, Doris Duke sued the magazine for $3 million, claiming libel. [99]
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Doris Duke, the famous real-life billionairess, is seen going over her life as she prepares to die. Her life includes the early death of her loving father, being raised by a cold mother, two marriages and numerous affairs that still leave her hungry for love, a fascination with mystics and reincarnation, and a disastrous adoption late in life.
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier was born on June 9, 1921, in Quebec, Canada. Her father, Frank Duff Frazier, came from a prosperous Boston family. Her mother, the former Brenda Germaine Henshaw Williams-Taylor, was the only daughter of Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (a general manager of the Bank of Montreal who was knighted in 1910 and combined his middle name and birth surname into a new hyphenated ...
A Delaware man was arrested and charged nearly 30 years after the death of his girlfriend, whose body was discovered in a Florida canal in 1996, officials announced Wednesday.