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Duke Gardens were the center of a controversy [58] over the decision by the trustees of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (now Doris Duke Foundation) to close them on May 25, 2008. [ 59 ] In 1963, Duke funded the construction of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 's ashram on land leased from the state forestry department of Uttar Pradesh in India. [ 60 ]
James Henry Roberts Cromwell (June 4, 1896 – March 19, 1990) was an American diplomat, candidate for the United States Senate, author, and one-time husband of Doris Duke, "the richest girl in the world". [1] He was the United States Ambassador to Canada.
Colacello was the magazine's authority on Doris Duke. [2] [3] The title of the series was derived from the book Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke by Pony Duke and Jason Thomas. [4] [5] Manfield's book was the first to be obtained by CBS, which optioned it for a planned miniseries in early 1995. [6]
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He was the only son of Sarah Pearson (née Angier) Duke (1856–1936) and Benjamin Newton Duke, and an heir to the American Tobacco Company fortune. [3] He was the brother of Mary Lillian Duke (who married his wife's brother, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.), [4] and first cousin to the flamboyant heiress Doris Duke. [5]
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Time flies! Giuliana Rancic shared a rare photo with her family at Disney World — and her and husband Bill Rancic’s 10-year-old son, Duke, is all grown up. “To say our trip to Disney World ...
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 ...