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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.
However, it was not commercially successful, and her career at one point became confused with that of "the real" Doris Duke, a white heiress, who began performing with a gospel choir in New Jersey. [2] Having remarried, and using the name Doris Logan, she temporarily retired to bring up her young children, before undergoing another divorce. [2]
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.
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Universal Pictures Content Group and Passion Pictures have wrapped on a new documentary about the nun who inspired 1995 Oscar-winning hit “Dead Man Walking,” Variety can exclusively confirm.
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.
Although Doris Duke made Demopoulos co-executor of her will, she later replaced him with Bernard Lafferty. After Duke's death, Demopoulos and others sued to remove Lafferty. Demopoulos subsequently sat on the board of trustees of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation established under the will. [3] [4]
A Duke University professor has died after he had a midair medical crisis while piloting an airplane in North Carolina on Sunday. A passenger was able to take control of the single-engine plane ...