"She moved very well for that kind of dancingwe called it Middle Eastern, or danse orientale, but essentially it's belly dancing. "At the beginning of 1991, she placed an increasing reliance on me and Bernard," Demopoulos told me. Although she was constantly compared to Hutton from the time they both had fairy-tale coming-out parties the year after the stock market crashed, Duke always hated the comparison to the much-married Woolworth heiress, who died penniless. Doris loved animals. Until Doris Duke's death, this would be her principal residence. Duke last made news in 1988, when she posted the $5.3 million bail for her close friend Imelda Marcos, the former Philippines First Lady. Even Imelda didn't see her.". Donald Robinson then called and informed Heffner that Duke wanted Burns out of the house. . We took him to Newport. ", "I was not involved. 'I loved her so much. The baby's death profoundly affected Duke, and she even hired psychics to try to. Believing that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden, Duke bought her a million-dollar ranch in Hawaii, and . Heffner, who lives on the Big Island of Hawaii on a ranch that Duke previously purchased for her, said in court papers that after their February 1991 breakup she learned that Duke had made changes in her will, and "the estate has not been left to Chandi as Doris had agreed." Miss Duke, 75, adopted Chandi Hefner, who owns ''extensive property in Hawaii,'' and has been living with her for three years, attorney Donald A. Robinson said. I would have to reheat it. It would be her last trip to Europe, and she also visited Poland with Brazilian grande dame Aime de Hereen. . I know a lot of bull dykes. It wasn't until the following winter, however, Burns told me, that he became romantically involved with Heffner. (Marcos was eventually acquitted, and returned to the Philippines.). She had several indiscreet affairs of her own, with Errol Flynn, Hawaiian swimming champion Duke Kahanamoku, and British M.P. In the morning, Bernard didn't come down until 11:30, and he was a mess. Los Angeles, A $150,000 executive protection dog? This stuff was from Miss Duke's father. "Chandi works very hard for Doris. Contrary to Heffner's version of events, he told me that he had prescribed anabolic steroids for Duke for her knee problems in late 1989 or early 1990. "There was such a myth about Doris being a solitary person and not going out, so when she showed up somewhere, it was an event. She was very happy doing that.". Lafferty had been working for Nelson and Claudia Peltz for the previous seven months, and Rybak says, "The Peltzes put him in a 28-day program. I have come to the realization that her primary motive was financial gain. Duke, who had managed to avoid almost all publicity since the Tirella scandal, stunned the world in November 1988 by putting up the $5 million bail for Imelda Marcos, whom the U.S. government had charged with racketeering. He had also treated Chandi Heffner, and counted both women as friends. Heffner spent almost six months on and off in two Honolulu hospitals, because she also developed a heart problem. And then eventually somebody else dropped back. . . Doris bought her a sprawling horse farm worth then 30 years ago over a million bucks. Brooklyn Beckham, whos 21, has announced hes marrying Nicola Peltz, 25. Chandi Heffner told me that Duke confided the truth to her: "It wasn't Cromwell's, and it wasn't her lover Alec's. Virtually inseparable, the two women shuttled back and forth between Duke Farms, Duke's Newport estate "Rough Point" and her palatial Indo-Persian "Shangri-La" in the exclusive Diamond Head section of Oahu. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. Today, Chandi lives on a palatial farm in. She continued to give him money, and friends say that their sexual relationship never really ended. About Heffner's sister. "Darling, the girl is out the door without a cent," Franco Rossellini trilled to a friend. That was Doris. Until she was 10, when she started at the Brearley School, she was tutored at home. . "It was unbelievable how hard she worked. This only fueled rumors about his sexuality further and . Chandi lives on the horse farm now and operates a very modest charity called the CDH Foundation, with total assets of $ 2 million. We used to sit in the sunroom with these tiny bits of broken porcelain and she'd say, 'It's got to be fixed, and I can do it better than most people.' Heffner paints a sedate portrait of their life together, with Doris retiring to her music room, Chandi dealing with the employees and both women sharing vegetarian dinners. It will be wonderful.' And he confirmed that he had been named an executor when Duke revised her 1987 will in March 1991. Doris and I used to go fairly regularly to see the president in the hospital; she would give him reiki treatments.". "And later on, for a while, on Irwin Bloom, the financial manager. Heffner also claims she saved the heiress's life on more than one occasion: once when Duke collapsed at her Newport estate in a "pool of blood," and a second time when Heffner recalls diving into the freezing Atlantic to save Duke from drowning. On April 5, 1993, one week after Heffner had sued her, Duke signed her last will, cutting off her adopted daughter in brutally explicit terms: I am extremely troubled by the realization that Chandi Heffner may use my 1988 adoption of her to attempt to benefit financially under the terms of either of the trusts created by my father. She said, 'I'm very frightened. You can live in the manner that I live and have this lifestyle. Movies. He made a comment that Doris had a fair number of complications as a result of the surgery. "Rubi" was also presented with a string of polo ponies and a house in Paris. . All. She was very into the ritualistic part of Hawaiian dance. A dedicated philanthropist, Chandi Heffner is the founder and President of CDHIFI a charitable foundation that sponsors medical, veterinary and humanitarian assistance to rural regions around the . In later years she did have problems with her hearing and with her legs, but nothing major. She also lent another $5 million to Marcos to cover her legal expenses (and asked for it back in her will). The first one, in Hawaii, didn't work out: she wanted to make a museum out of a Thai temple that she had saved from destruction on one of her many trips to Southeast Asia. "When we were together," Heffner continued, "when things were really great, Doris was in wonderful shape. and as we were leaving they exchanged telephone numbers. So we went into the room, and Bernard was buck naked, bent over a chair, passed out. I thought she was really nice, genuine.". "I said, 'What's wrong?' ", According to Farrah, Heffner never actually took part in a dance class, because her leg was in a cast. She was like a flower child, even though the era was over. Ron Protas also told me that Duke had a fear of fire, and that when he told her about "the terrible experience" of scattering Martha Graham's ashes, Duke said, "It's never going to happen to me. Banks never saw her again. In the last year of Duke's life, Bernard Lafferty persuaded her to drop her physician of 12 years, her accountant, her bankers, and the lawyer who drew up her next-to-last will. Lafferty was accused of conspiring to kill his terminally ill employer with morphine. Peggy Lee told me that she had spoken to Duke on the phone several times in her last months, and that Duke had made a donation to an AIDS charity that Lee is involved with. That's the same as around $125 million in today's dollars. And the person who could best illuminate Doris Duke's declining days, Bernard Lafferty, refused to talk to me. The Untold Truth of Stephen Hawking's Son - Ti. Doris Dukes adopted daughter has ended her fight to gain control of the late billionaires fortune in exchange for a $65-million settlement from the estate. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in 1988, Duke left control of the bulk of her fortune to Bernard Lafferty, her butler of six years. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. "I looked upon Bernard as a member of the small Doris Duke family," says Donald Robinson. The circumstances of Dukes death remain under investigation. After the war, she moved to Paris and wrote for the magazine Harper's Bazaar . I fumbled through an introduction. "He was doing a lot of embroidery work for Doris. I knew from the beginning she was a son of a bitch." How do we get rid of her? The couple lived together from 1990 until 1993. I was constantly arguing with Bernard . "She looked great," Warnecke says. Heffner pleaded on his behalf and asked to speak to Duke, but Robinson told her that Duke was tired. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Most of Duke's friends hadn't had an inkling. According to Heffner, Duke suffered heart palpitations in Moscow and was afraid to be alone, so for the rest of the trip they shared hotel rooms. Her former physician, Dr. Harry Demopoulos, is seeking to unseat Lafferty as co-executor. New York magazine reported after her death that she had a knee operation at U.C.L.A. It happened on a train to California. After Heffner returned to Hawaii, she kept in touch with Farrah and Saretta, and in February 1983 helped them organize a Middle Eastern dance seminar in Honolulu. "He was obviously unhappy. Chandi sued Dukes estate and wound up inheriting $65 million. Later on we would sleep together and Doris would come in most mornings and sit there on the bed with us and talk. "He was marvelous," says Claus von Blow, who later became Duke's neighbor in Newport. Immediately prior to going to work for Duke, he was employed by Heffner's sister Claudia and her husband, Nelson Peltz, one of the leading takeover tycoons of the 80s. The gate had obviously been left open. Toward the end of the summer, in Newport, Heffner told Duke that she had to return to Hawaii, because she was concerned about her horses and dogs, and had planned a trip to Bali with Gordon Damon. . "He had done her hair in a pageboy, and she looked so pretty, though she was painfully thin." I said, 'Doris, get out of that house. Heffner told me that "even back in high school I began kind of a quest to see if there was more to life," and that after a trip around the world, she ended up in Hawaii, meditating, surfing, and exercising polo ponies. They would helicopter over to Somerville from their estate in Bedford, New York.". Her Newport artist pal Richard Banks said that that summer "Doris decided to do the whole social thing and she loved it. . He's a sweet human being, and he seemed to be honest and fiercely defensive of Doris. Chandi Heffner choked back tears as she talked about Doris Duke, the worldly and restless tobacco heiress who legally adopted her in 1988, when Heffner was 35 and Duke was 75, and cast her out less than three years later. Although polo and horse jumping are her favorite equestrian activities, Chandi Heffner currently spends the majority of her time overseeing CDHIF USA and CDHIFI. . Duke is portrayed by her adopted daughter as a lonely, paranoid recluse in need of constant care. He always seemed to be there whenever she needed him. Heffner also said that as next of kin she would have requested an autopsy, but she was never officially notified of Duke's death, and by the time she learned of the cremation, it was too late. . If anyone has news on Chandi from the far reaches of Hawaii, drop us a line at showbiz411@gmail.com. Phyllis Saretta told me that Duke performed with the Farrah company four or five times, wearing a long black wig. Lafferty can appoint the bank that will serve as the estate's co-executor, and three of the four other trustees of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Heres a description of Chandi (seen in the picture here on the right, with Duke and Imelda Marcos) from her website. Much to the surprise of almost everyone who knew Duke, she named her butler of six years, Bernard Lafferty, as executor of her estate and placed him in control of the newly created Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which is to receive almost her entire fortune. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? The billionaire believed that Chandi was the reincarnation of her dead kid. In 1968, she established the Newport Restoration Foundation, with Jacqueline Onassis as vice president. In 1925, at the age of 13, she inherited an estimated $100 million in trusts from her father, James Buchanan Duke, a coarse but brilliant self-made man who founded the American Tobacco Company and the Duke Power Company, and who endowed Trinity College in North Carolina with millions, reportedly on the condition it change its name to Duke University. He could barely speak.". According to financial accounts shes posted on her website, she has about $700,000 parked in CDH to help India. If I were Victoria Beckham, I wouldnt count on a big wedding present. ", By the time Duke returned to Shangri La that fall, she and Heffner were getting together on an almost daily basis, and when it was time to move back to Duke Farms in the spring of 1985, she invited Heffner to go with her. ", Dr. Harry Demopoulos, an early promoter of antioxidants and megavitamins, whose patients include Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone, had been Doris Duke's personal physician since 1981. The private pilot hired to fly Duke's Boeing 737 quit his job because of Heffner, and filed a letter with the Federal Aviation Administration complaining of her unstable behavior. "She used to come and see me and just cry," says singer Peggy Lee, who was friendly with Tirellaand who would later employ Bernard Lafferty as a butler. A few hours later, when Heffner returned from a show-jumping lesson, she was informed that Doris had flown to Los Angeles. You don't have to go back. There was a little alcove under the stairs, and the food would be nice but ordinary. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. And when she left, that adverse thing ceased. Records: 123. "Doris was seeing a Japanese therapist for her knee problems . We wouldn't sit in the main dining room. "It was ironic that the man Doris loved the most was the greatest gigolo of all time," says Marina Cicogna. ", The day after the adoption, the economist Woody Brock went to lunch at Duke Farms with Duke's New Jersey neighbor Jane Engelhard. With a love for all living things, Ms. Heffner maintains a U.S. ranch that takes in rescued horses, birds, donkeys, pigs, and many other animals. Each evening she would return to Duke Farms or her Manhattan apartment in time for dinner alone on a tray. The last words were 'Stay in touch, Harry.' He named both his private Pullman car and his 80-foot yacht after her, and surrounded her with bodyguards. He has an alcohol problem, but he's a basically good person. ", Heffner wryly noted that Bernard Lafferty, accompanied by a bodyguard and chauffeur, had sat through her depositions wearing a five-carat-diamond earring, a diamond bracelet, and a diamond watch. When she was a cult member of Hare Krishna she got adopted by a Billionaire Heiress of a Tobacco company and Philanthropist, Doris Duke when she went to Hawaii in the 1980s. She did not directly accuse Lafferty of turning Duke against her. She was very intelligent and very together. The only times I saw Doris really relaxed were these few times in Beverly Hills.". I think she said when she came home from the hospital she began swimming out into the ocean, just swimming and swimming, not caring whether she lived or died. On rare occasions I got Bernard. He went to Sarasota High School. The press decided she had become an eccentric recluse. Love. When I go I'll be eaten by the sharks.". "They did not meet in dance class," he insists. If you want, we will give Bernard another chance, or we will get another butler. ' Doris Duke dumped Chandi Heffner because Heffner wanted to marry one of their bodyguards. But she had a dramatic change in her lifeand it was weird. When Duke was 27 years old, she delivered a premature baby daughter who died just 24 hours after being born. "We were sitting on the rocks, and she said, 'I will take care of you and all of your animals for the rest of your life. The 1987 will had designated Heffner executor. We would go into the kitchen, just the four of us. . Lee told me, "Ten or 15 years ago, I went to sing in the Versailles Room at the old Bellevue, and Bernard was the manager of the room, and we became friends. Duke was spending the spring, as usual, at her 2,700-acre Duke Farms, in Somerville, New Jersey. For many years she sang in a black gospel choir at the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, and left its minister, the Reverend Lawrence G. Roberts, $1 million in her will. She had episodes of pneumonia, she had clots in her veins, and some of those clots may have traveled to her lungs. Paul and his family moved to Sarasota, Florida, when he was nine years old. . She also asked to be buried at sea. Tom Ford. On an employment application Lafferty filled out for the Pavillion Agency in New York in September 1986, he said he had worked at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia from 1972 to 1983 and at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City from 1983 to 1985. While Lafferty was hospitalized, Rybak says, "Doris said to me, 'Tom, we are going to leave this up to you. Duke was twice divorced and had no other children. SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) _ Reclusive multimillionaire Doris Duke has adopted a 35-year-old conservationist as a daughter, her lawyer said Friday. The incredibly eccentric Duke who used to throw lawn birthday parties for her llamas complete with cake and funny hats adopted adult Chandi, after being convinced she was the reincarnation of her dead baby. Doris said, 'Do you have time for a drink?' . It was at this time, she said, that Duke told her that she thought her food was being poisoned. There was a gradual onset of a depressed relationship between Doris and Chandi, starting about the middle of 1990 and going progressively downhill. She was taking so many pills at the end and, knowingly or not, killed herself. According to her New York Times obituary, the cause of death was "pulmonary edema resulting in cardiac arrest." Last year she gave $40,000 to help people in India, $45,000 to Bronx Veterans Medical Research, and $2000 to the Hawaii Saddle Club. Imelda stayed for a week, I think. Were there . The will provides Lafferty with an executor's fee of up to $5 million, a lifetime annuity of $500,000 a year, and commissions, which could run into the millions annually, as a trustee of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and of three other closely related new foundations: the Doris Duke Foundation for the Preservation of Endangered Wildlife, the Doris Duke Foundation for the Preservation of New Jersey Farmland and Farm Animals, and the Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Art. Help Center Contributor Zone Polls. So I fixed another tray and brought it upstairs. Like Doris, actually." Claudia Heffner's Sister Has A Weird Story. Burns served as Chandi Heffner Duke's "companion, confidant, cook, bodyguard," according to the suit, and she, in turn, agreed that they would divide "her expected inheritance." . This should be some rehearsal dinner! Doris loved it. Demopoulos said that Duke had mentioned her suspicions that she was being poisoned. . Two years later she bought Falcon's Lair, the Beverly Hills house where Rudolph Valentino once lived. One night at dinner, she told me, 'You know, my father always said no one would ever love me except for my money, and to be very careful.' Duke. "He seemed depressed, and Doris thought it would give him more self-esteem. As she spoke, she leaned forward like a child who is eager to please, but when she sat back and let her lawyers take over, her face lost its animation and she seemed older, harder, drained. I never heard from Doris again and I could never reach her again. We came out from opposite sides of the stage, and I got to the middle and she wasn't there. Another time, at a college in upstate New York, Bobby [Farrah] didn't have her dancehe had her completely veiled, and she sat on the stage and played finger cymbals. And let me tell you that she gave a really nice dinner party for me at the nadir of my fortunes. And then Chandi said something that took me aback: 'Bobby, I can't understand why you have a friend like that and yet you're struggling to have a dance publication. If someone crossed them, they just put them out of their lives. He was later retried and acquitted. He also said that she had lent $600,000 for his company, Health Maintenance Programs, Inc., in 1989; the loan is to be converted into stock, according to the will. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jewish immigrants. She has also been involved in equestrian sports and was the owner of the horse Authentic, whose rider took home the Gold Medal in show jumping for Team USA at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In published accounts of Duke's break with Heffner, Bernard Lafferty, who was worried about Duke's health, had called Rossellini in Europe a few weeks earlier and told him, "Something is really wrong here. (The hospital said that Bernard Lafferty was a patient from July 1 to July 14, 1987.). Chandi Duke Heffner has 24 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis by Ilia Delio, Free Your Mind by . Denise Hale recalls meeting Eduardo Tirella on the set of The Sandpiper, which was directed by her then husband, Vincente Minnelli, and having several dinners at Falcon's Lair. A member of Heffner's family said yesterday that it is likely Chandi Duke Heffner, who legally changed her name, will accept a settlement for several million dollars. All; Titles; TV Episodes; Celebs; Companies; Keywords; "It was shocking," Heffner told me. Surrogate Court Judge Wilfred P. Diana asked Duke if she understood that the adoption "creates a relationship between you and Miss Heffner as if she were born to you in wedlock," and Duke said yes. . Heffner is also claiming her right to inherit two trusts which Buck Duke created in 1917 and 1924, on the ground that she is his lineal descendant and grandchild. She had received another $10 million of her inheritance in 1937, and would receive at least as much in 1942. I said, 'Doris, do it, I think it's a good thing.' ", Like many of her friends, Protas is unclear about when Duke went into the hospital for the operations on her knees, or when she came out. And the servants were absolutely bizarreponytailed, rings, sandals ". And along about March, I sent flowers and candy to her California home. April 7, 1993 Chandi Duke Heffner, the 39-year-old former belly dancer and Hare Krishna devotee who was legally adopted by American Tobacco Co. heiress Doris Duke in 1988, now claims the. Her last will is dated April 5, 1993, was drawn up by Katten Muchin, and was signed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Then she became pregnant and had a premature daughter named Arden, who lived only 24 hours. Charles became so concerned about Duke's condition that she called her and asked if Heffner had been "giving her something, I don't know what"even though Heffner had been out of the picture for a year and a half. For some reason, Doris actually came to believe that Chandi. In 1987, Heffner handled the negotiations for Duke's most talked-about acquisition: two Bactrian camels, which were thrown in as a sweetener on the deal to purchase a 19-passenger Boeing 737-300 for $25 million. Jane Engelhard sat next to the bodyguard, and you should have seen her face. Doris Duke was murdered. Community. She wasn't Barbara Hutton," says Marina Cicogna, who was a friend of both heiresses. Chandi Duke Heffner was recognized for her outstanding support of the Marshall Legacy Institute's, landmine detection program. They hired him on Ferencz Soltesz's recommendation. Chandi Duke Heffner, the 39-year-old former belly dancer and Hare Krishna devotee who was legally adopted by American Tobacco Co. heiress Doris Duke in 1988, now claims the reclusive 80-year-old billionaire reneged on her promise to make Heffner the sole beneficiary of her estate. In an April 1992 codicil, she replaced them with her nephew, Walker Inman Jr., and Bernard Lafferty, and in a March 1993 codicil she made Bernard Lafferty her sole executor. . ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. Do you think you could help him out?' "People always think that if you can have 200 people to dine at home without moving the chairs around and you don't, you must be very sad," says Claus von Blow. That fall, she attended a tribute to Sophia Loren at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a fancy party afterward at Tatou, with Imelda Marcos, Rossellini, Natale, and Lafferty, who wore a ski sweater. One evening Steve Levy said that Miss Duke wanted him to administer a urine test on me. "There was a rumor that she did it deliberately. Then [Franco and I] didn't see Doris anymore. She was having a real whirl." She was wearing a dark-blue turtleneck, old Levi's, cotton socks, and scruffy moccasins. "Sometimes people are attracted to the thing they fear the most.". '", Heffner dismissed such charges, and also told me that one day during the "steroid" period Duke had called her into her bedroom and said, "I think somebody is putting poison in my food. . Chandi Heffner is 69 years old today because Chandi's birthday is on 08/26/1953. She told me she was supposed to start hula dancing professionally at a hotel in Hawaii. Despite the negative publicity, she fought her husband in the courts for five years, until he gave in. He was cooking and she was serving. "She out-Leona Helmsleyed Leona Helmsley," Duffy said of Heffner. Before moving to Chandi's current city of New York, NY, Chandi lived in Kamuela HI and Kawaihae HI.In the past, Chandi has also been known as Duke Chandi, Chani Duke Heffner, Chani D Heffner, Chandi K Heffner and Chandi Duke Heffner. ", A few days before I interviewed Heffner, an item had appeared in Cindy Adams's gossip column: Robert Ibrahim Farrah, an instructor of Middle Eastern dance, who says he introduced Heffner to Duke in 1984, claimed that Duke had come to fear Heffner. Also at Duke Farms, she constructed a series of 11 greenhouses containing elaborate recreations of English, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and other gardens, which she opened to the public. . ") ", Heffner denies that she had had any previous association with Imelda Marcos. One of Chandi's doctors thought that pregnancy might help her conditions, and Chandi was discussing this with Doris one evening in Newport while I was sitting there. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in. The Sands says that Lafferty managed the theater, which headlined such stars as Bill Cosby, Joel Grey, and Rita Moreno. And he had quite a history. In the proceedings, Heffner formally renounced her natural parents, certified that she was not consenting to be adopted out of financial considerations, and legally changed her name from Charlene Gail Heffner to Chandi Duke Heffner. Her mother was another story. Duke." After Tirella's death, she seemed consumed with the idea of actually becoming a performer. He also hoped she would finance his 1940 campaign for U.S. senator from New Jersey; instead, she helped ruin his political career by snubbing Eleanor Roosevelt and putting private detectives on him to collect evidence of his extramarital affairs. . Duke's Los Angeles decorator Tony Duquette adds, "He was just marvelous to Doris, and not at all sinister. At a 1990 lunch at Duke Farms for Lord Carrington, then chairman of Christie's, according to Oatsie Charles, "Chandi's attitude toward Doris was awfully offhand. Steve said, 'Your food has changed so suddenly Miss Duke thinks you must be on drugs.' In a settlement signed Thursday by Manhattan Surrogate Court Judge Renee Roth, Chandi Duke Heffner, 42, dropped claims to the $1.2-billion estate and dropped a breach-of-contract suit. Once Chandi was adopted she took over Dukes life. I suspected that it was Bernard doing thiskeeping the food cold. Chandi Duke Heffner Net Worth Chandi Duke Heffner Net Worth 2022, Age, Height, Relationships, Married, Dating, Family, Wiki Biography. A Hare Krishna, sort of, Chandi went to Hawaii in the late 1980s and inveigled herself into the life of another billionaire, Doris Duke, the richest woman in the world. And he called from a pay phone, and I felt so sorry for this guy, I said, 'Come to Somerville.' 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