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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 her final will, Duke left virtually all of her fortune to several existing and new charitable foundations. She appointed her butler, Bernard Lafferty, as executor of her estate. [67] Lafferty appointed the U.S. Trust company as corporate co-executor. Lafferty and Duke's friend Marion Oates Charles were named as her trustees. [68]
Bernard and Doris is a 2006 film directed by Bob Balaban. The teleplay by Hugh Costello is a semi- fictionalized account of the relationship that developed between socialite heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke and her self-destructive Irish butler Bernard Lafferty later in her life.
Another film about the relationship between Duke and her butler, Bernard Lafferty, Bernard and Doris, directed by Bob Balaban and starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes, was released in 2007 to much greater critical acclaim, receiving three Golden Globe and ten Emmy nominations.
In this 1999 photo taken at the RIAA Diamond Awards, Led Zeppelin bandmates John Paul Jones (left) and Jimmy Page reunite. The two plus Robert Plant are all featured in a new documentary ...
On television, he portrayed an Irish butler Bernard Lafferty in the HBO movie Bernard and Doris (2006) for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for ...
James Lafferty is shedding new light on his fan-favorite character Nathan Scott on One Tree Hill.. During the show’s annual fan event hosted by Friends with Benefit Charity Events in Wilmington ...
Actor Gerard Butler shared an image of his Malibu home on social media, which the Woolsey Fire in California has destroyed. The photo shows Butler in front of his home, which is completely burned ...