Doris duke

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.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Doris Duke, daughter of J.B. Duke, in costume of "Japanese Girl". She inherited the millions left by her father. J.B. Duke, along with his brother, created one of the strongest...

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Socialite Doris Duke rests at a table wearing a white fur coat during the Green & White Ball at Palm Beach's Colony Club.

Doris Duke and her husband, 1930s.

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.

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 …

Series of color photos portraying the interior rooms at Falcon Lair. Photos include interiors of Music Room (2nd Fl), Napoleon Room (1st Fl), Livin... / Doris Duke Photograph Collection / Duke Digital Repository

Doris Duke and Sam Kahanamoku playing slide and acoustic guitars, 1939. Photo by Martin Munkácsi. Shangri La Historical Archives, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Gift of Hope Cromwell Hopkins.