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Duke's legacy is now administered by the Doris Duke Foundation, dedicated to medical research, prevention of cruelty to children and animals, the performing arts, wildlife, and ecology. Early life [ edit ]
The only child of American tobacco baron James Duke, when Doris Duke was born the press called her "the richest little girl in the world," but Duke grew to be the most reluctant of...
V.F. unearths a 1966 eyewitness—a paperboy—who saw heiress Doris Duke right after she may have committed murder. Newport, Rhode Island, police have now opened an investigation.
When Eduardo Tirella told tobacco heiress Doris Duke he was leaving her employ for the West Coast, she ran him down with her car, according to a new book. The death was ruled an accident.
When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in...
The mission of the Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) is to build a more creative, equitable and sustainable future by investing in artists and the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research, child well-being and greater mutual understanding among diverse communities.
The mission of the Doris Duke Foundation is to build a more creative, equitable and sustainable future by investing in artists and the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research, child well-being and greater mutual understanding among diverse communities.
Born on Nov. 22, 1912 in New York City, Doris Duke was the only child of James Buchanan (J.B.) Duke, a founder of the American Tobacco Company and Duke Power, and his second wife, Nanaline Holt Inman Duke.
Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke: With Lauren Bacall, Richard Chamberlain, Mare Winningham, Lindsay Frost. Biography of billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke.
Doris Duke. American philanthropist and tobacco heiress Doris Duke (1912–1993) inherited a large family fortune that enabled her to pursue a variety of interests in a lifetime rife with controversy and rumor.