An excerpt from a new Duke biography explains why the tobacco heiress fled Palm Beach high society for Honolulu.
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See Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, and more letting loose at the famed nightclub.
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A selection of the artifacts Doris Duke assembled at her five-acre Honolulu retreat are being shown for the first time outside the estate at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
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Doris Duke. Photo by Cecil Beaton, 1937.
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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.
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Post contributed by Mary Samouelian, Doris Duke Collection Archivist One of the most well-known photographs in the Doris Duke Photograph Collection is a very glamorous Doris Duke draped in a floral gown and pearls, standing against an ornate backdrop. The photograph was taken in the early 1930s by Cecil Beaton, a fashion photographer known primarily for … Continue reading A Candid Doris Duke →
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Doris Duke attending at fundraising gala at one of the grand country estates on Long Island.
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Doris Duke in Egypt.
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The mother of teenage heirs to Manhattan socialite Doris Duke’s massive fortune tried to dip into her kids’ trust fund to buy a nearly $30 million Utah ranch, court papers show. Daisha …
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Ralph Wolfe Cowan and Doris Duke pose at the full-length portrait he painted for her.
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In the fall of 1966, the temperamental socialite killed a close confidant in tony Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, compelling evidence suggests that the mercurial, vindictive tobacco heiress got away with murder.
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