Her former physician, Dr. Harry Demopoulos, is seeking to unseat Lafferty as co-executor. Believing that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden, Duke bought her a million-dollar ranch in Hawaii, and . Ari Emanuel lets his AI alter ego open Endeavors earnings call, Sam Bankman-Fried increasingly isolated as another associate takes a plea deal, How Black Market Flea and Everyday People brought the buzz of Black life to the Beehive. In a peculiar arrangement, in 1988, the 76-year-old Duke legally adopted the 35-year-old Heffner and bought her a $1 million ranch in Hawaii, where the two lived together as mother and daughter. The baby's death profoundly affected Duke, and she even hired psychics to try to. ", 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. (Von Blow is referring to a 1982 dinner party Duke gave at '21' in New York for his friends shortly after he had been convicted of attempting to murder his wife, Sunny. She has completely wired the small house on her own, and she boards horses and cows for neighbors for $15 a head per month. She told me she was supposed to start hula dancing professionally at a hotel in Hawaii. Marcos has said that she and Duke were friends of almost 20 years, but others say that they met in the late 1970s through Franco Rossellini. I used to tell her, 'You know, Doris, some people do like you for yourself. "It was ironic that the man Doris loved the most was the greatest gigolo of all time," says Marina Cicogna. Doris loved it. "Both of them greeted us at the door. "She looked great," Warnecke says. ", Heffner was sitting in the Manhattan apartment of one of her lawyers on a Saturday afternoon late last December. Years ago, she was talking about the things we all talk about nowthe environment, battered women and children, animal rights. Meanwhile, Bernard said he wasn't feeling well and went back up to his room. 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. And then the wine was $1,000 a bottle; it came from her father's cellars. 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." Chandi Duke Heffner, age 60s, lives in Kamuela, HI. 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. I have come to the realization that her primary motive was financial gain. She had several indiscreet affairs of her own, with Errol Flynn, Hawaiian swimming champion Duke Kahanamoku, and British M.P. "He seemed depressed, and Doris thought it would give him more self-esteem. After she returned to Newport later that month, Banks invited her to a concert, but she forgot the date. . Heffner pleaded on his behalf and asked to speak to Duke, but Robinson told her that Duke was tired. Duke was the only child of J.B. "Buck" Duke, who founded the American Tobacco Co. and later endowed Duke University in Durham, N.C. A. once a week wherever we were. I hired him to come out [to Los Angeles] and work for me, to kind of be my majordomo here. ", Oatsie Charles had a one-word explanation: "Loneliness. During this period, Duke also plunged into three large-scale public projects. "She designed those houses and she saw to every color," says Newport artist Richard Banks. 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. Her first husband, James R. Cromwell, called Duke "my frigidheiress" and engaged in a lengthy court battle to win a financial settlement. Chandi Heffner Duke passed away on 1940. His breath almost knocked me off my feet.' One of Heffner's lawyers says that he has 18,000 documents concerning Duke's business and legal affairs, many of which Chandi had "attended to.". Wait til the Beckhams Meet the Parents: Nicola Peltzs Aunt Inherited $65 Mil from Doris Duke in Infamous Adoption, Movie Release August Schedule for "Tenet," "Mulan" Will Be Scuttled as Gov. 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. . Doris loved animals. Paul and his family moved to Sarasota, Florida, when he was nine years old. 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. "She was told she has a pretty good case," the family member said. You felt that she was going to break. I knew from the beginning she was a son of a bitch." The rest of the house was dark, which was odd. One week later, Doris Duke stunned the world again by adopting Chandi Heffner at the Somerset County Court House in Somerville, to which the two women were accompanied by Donald Robinson. . I said, 'Doris, get out of that house. 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. ". I turned and saw her on the floor. Chandi sued Duke's estate. 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. We knock, we bang, we yell. ", In late 1990, he said, "I detected a growing unhappiness on Doris's part. The reason it didn't last long was she didn't want them. He said the couple, who lived together from 1990 until 1993, agreed that Burns would be not only be her confidante-companion but ``cook, body guard, security specialist and assist in financing any claims Heffner Duke may find it necessary to bring to enforce her rights against Doris Duke.. 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." Her lawyer, David Keyko, said yesterday that in. Doris Duke was murdered. Duke scoffed, "Oh, come on. But theyve hit a snag, Review: A reimagined Secret Garden fails to flower anew at the Ahmanson Theatre, Elizabeth Holmes cites her new baby as a reason she should avoid prison for Theranos scam. . . . Yet it is the underlying misconception of almost everything ever written about her, including Stephanie Mansfield's 1992 biography, The Richest Girl in the World. Heffner said that she had asked for them almost as a joke, and that Duke was laughing when the agent for the ownerrumored to be Adnan Khashoggi or a Kuwaiti sheikhcalled back and agreed. Doris Duke committed suicide. She also lent another $5 million to Marcos to cover her legal expenses (and asked for it back in her will). 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. He had been recommended by Ron Oldenburg, a Honolulu lawyer who handled immigration matters for the employees of both Doris Duke and Imelda Marcos, and hired as a bodyguard for Heffner when she was hospitalized for severe sinusitis in February 1989. She was like a flower child, even though the era was over. Chandi Heffner was "planted" on Doris Duke by Imelda Marcos. Although polo and horse jumping are her favorite equestrian activities, Chandi Heffner currently spends the majority of her time overseeing CDHIF USA and CDHIFI. I remember her referring to 'we dancers.' After repeated requests for an interview, I received the following statement through the New York public-relations firm representing him: "My duty to Miss Duke is to maintain her privacy even though she is gone.". Chandi Duke Heffner, Self: Oh My God. She had just been through three days of depositions in New Jersey, where her lawsuit was filed, and had two more days to go before she could fly back to Hawaii, where she lives on an isolated 300-acre horse ranch, which Duke had bought for her on the Big Island for about $1.5 million before their rupture, and where she keeps a loaded pistol beside her bed. When I go I'll be eaten by the sharks.". As a young girl, she wrote him love notes, which he pored over again and again. ", Thomas Rybak maintains, "I personally believe that Chandi was pushed out by Bernard. "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. ", Burns began working out with Duke on a regular basis. ". They all of a sudden just totally cut me off, and I can't believe that was Doris. There was a deadly side to Doris. SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) _ Reclusive multimillionaire Doris Duke has adopted a 35-year-old conservationist as a daughter, her lawyer said Friday. She was alarmingly fragile." Her longest relationship was with Joey Castro, the Mexican-born jazz pianist at the Mocambo nightclub in Los Angeles, whom she met in 1950, when he was 23 and she was 38. "No cane. For some reason, Doris actually came to believe that Chandi. Guest's in Old Westbury: "She came by helicopter. "She's an unusually intelligent person: perceptive, articulate, well-read, culturally alive. Phyllis Saretta says, "Chandi told me that her sister had a butler and a chauffeur and the whole thing. When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. And he confirmed that he had been named an executor when Duke revised her 1987 will in March 1991. If anyone has news on Chandi from the far reaches of Hawaii, drop us a line at showbiz411@gmail.com. . I really don't know what the hell was going on, frankly. Guest introduced Duke to Leon Amar, a 30-year-old Moroccan decorator. . I would have to reheat it. "It was strange. ", Robert Farrah agrees: "Doris Duke was not this elusive reclusive. Chandi Heffner and Doris Duke were having a lesbian affair. Nicola has an eclectic family, worthy of a Robert Altman movie a la A Wedding. On the plus side, theres the money. I suppose it was Doris's fault for never talking about what she did.". "Darling, the girl is out the door without a cent," Franco Rossellini trilled to a friend. . . . One afternoon in February, the architect John Warnecke went to Shangri La for tea. There was lack of ostentation. They were putting up a curtain rod together. I never heard from Doris again and I could never reach her again. One of those servants was the future executor of Doris Duke's estate. 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. 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. . The 1987 will had designated Heffner executor. While Lafferty was hospitalized, Rybak says, "Doris said to me, 'Tom, we are going to leave this up to you. Warmer storms could cause problems, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Hyundai was poised to become Teslas top contender. Christopher Duffy, the former manager of Duke's Hawaiian estate, has told of a volatile relationship between the billionaire and Heffner, including frequent arguments and thrown crockery. And when I smacked my lips in ecstasy, I found that three or four bottles would be left off at my house the next day as a gesture. She didn't like medicine in general. That was Doris. She continued to give him money, and friends say that their sexual relationship never really ended. And when she left, that adverse thing ceased. These are just some of the accusations, strange rumors, and conspiracy theories that I heard concerning the last years of Doris Duke's life: Her estate is really worth at least $2 billion. He wanted me out of there. Chandi Duke Heffner was recognized for her outstanding support of the Marshall Legacy Institute's, landmine detection program. She said, 'I'm very frightened. That led to pneumonia and she couldn't eat and it was on and off, on and off, for months.". "She out-Leona Helmsleyed Leona Helmsley," Duffy said of Heffner. Under the terms approved by Surrogate Renee Roth on Thursday, Chandi Gail Heffner will receive $800,000 by Monday and $65 million on Wednesday. "We discussed cremation, and she said, 'Never, never, ever let anyone cremate 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. After giving the matter prolonged and serious consideration, I am convinced that I should not have adopted Chandi Heffner. Nine months earlier, she had sued her adoptive mother for breach of contract, claiming that she had promised to maintain her in the Duke lifestyle for the rest of Heffner's life and to make her the principal heir of her estate. Mahn soon left, and in 1987 co-authored Daddy's Duchess: The Unauthorized Biography of Doris Duke. She's a very nice girl, really first-rate, and she will keep Doris's foundation going in the futureyou know, not a law firm but a human being. Los Angeles, A $150,000 executive protection dog? I thought she was really nice, genuine.". But she had a dramatic change in her lifeand it was weird. Each evening she would return to Duke Farms or her Manhattan apartment in time for dinner alone on a tray. . Brooklyn Beckham, whos 21, has announced hes marrying Nicola Peltz, 25. "You know, fate is strange. The next day Duke's lawyer called Heffner again and informed her that Duke wanted her out, too. The next morning, the day after Valentine's Day, James Burns remembers, Duke told Heffner she had a dentist's appointment and left the house with Bernard Lafferty. ", Duke had a passion for the performing arts all her life. We wouldn't sit in the main dining room. He was later retried and acquitted. It would come back. The agreement removed the heiresss former butler, Bernard Lafferty, as co-executor of the estate in return for $4.5 million and $500,000 a year for life. Chandi Heffner is a small, sturdy woman with thick black shoulder-length hair and bone-white skin. SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) _ Reclusive multimillionaire Doris Duke has adopted a 35-year-old conservationist as a daughter, her lawyer said Friday. Doris said, 'Do you have time for a drink?' "Bernard got out of the hospital. ", Sometimes, Robert Farrah recalls, "Doris would throw up her hands and say, 'No wills! Her mother was another story. And Nicolas first cousin on her fathers side is the great New York broadcaster and filmmaker Perri Peltz, whose father was Nelsons older brother. 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. (We covered the story in Fame magazine in 1990, and New York magazine did it again in 1993.). . Once a day, she meditates in her "deity room," which is filled with golden statues from India. Keyko said that $800,000 was paid to Heffner on Friday. Meanwhile, Heffner is holed up on her Hawaiian ranch. The circumstances of Dukes death remain under investigation. All. They talked constantly, and Nelson and Claudia used to go to lunches quite often with Chandi and Doris. Burns said that he was also training Lafferty, to help him lose his paunch. If you want, we will give Bernard another chance, or we will get another butler. ' Love. I asked Doris and she said, 'Yeah, it's fine.' An Irish-born orphan in his late 40s, Bernard Lafferty is recalled by guests at Duke's various houses mainly for his ponytail and gold ear stud, and for serving tea in full butler's uniform but barefoot. The court also gave Doris title to the Fifth Avenue house, which she gave to New York University in 1957, and Rough Point, a huge Vanderbilt "cottage" in Newport. Miss Duke's will went on: "I am extremely troubled by the realization that Chandi Heffner may use my 1988 adoption of her (when she was 35 years old) to attempt to benefit financially under the . (Other sources say the meeting took place in 1985.) Things escalated. I said, 'Sure, have him call me.' Community. ", Almost every friend of Duke's I talked to, including her many homosexual friends, told me that she had always been an avid heterosexual. Like Heffner, Amar quickly became involved in the running of Duke's houses, business affairs, and charities. Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes. Sources at Duke's estates, however, portrayed Heffner in a different light. We don't hear anything. Nicolas mother, Claudia, has a sister we havent forgotten about. ". It would be her last trip to Europe, and she also visited Poland with Brazilian grande dame Aime de Hereen. When Doris died, there was a well publicized estate fight between Chandi and Doriss ex butler, Bernard Lafferty. Cary W. Goldstein, Burns lawyer, says Heffner Duke broke ``a very explicit deal she had with Burns, although it was never written down. This gives her the air of philanthropy. She was a cool lady. We would be four, six, eightOatsie Charles, Nuala Pell, Minnie Cushing, Lita McBean and her husband, and Sunny and me. Ron Protas, the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, says, "Doris was very shy, and never thought enough of herself, because she was so beat up emotionally by her father. I took her to six or seven dinner parties. She did not directly accuse Lafferty of turning Duke against her. Lafferty served. Heffner told me she had left "the farm community" and was living with Gordon Damon, a real-estate agent whose house was near Duke's Diamond Head estate. Moreover, Heffner's legal complaint against Duke states: Doris . ''Doris and I had been in the Gobi Desert together, and we found out they were becoming a threatened species." Nelson Peltz is financing Chandi Heffner's legal battle. 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. Now, please understand that I'm not accusing anyone of anything.". "There were clear indications of a growing trust, affection, and devotion between them. Duke was spending the spring, as usual, at her 2,700-acre Duke Farms, in Somerville, New Jersey. In return, Heffner claims, the twice-divorced Duke promised to "take care" of Heffner for the rest of her life. Sometimes he acted as the butler, others as a general assistant. It will be wonderful.' Duke is portrayed by her adopted daughter as a lonely, paranoid recluse in need of constant care. "Not at all. For reasons I don't understand, a curtain seemed to come down. I came back clean as a whistle. But by the following summer she was noticeably declining again. They named them Princess and Baby. Two years later, against her mother's wishes, she married James Cromwell, who was 16 years older than she, and whose family had lost its fortune in 1929, and embarked on a two-year honeymoon through the Middle East and Asia. "Nobody gave Doris any credit for having any taste, any intelligence, any anything," says Marion Oates Charles, known as Oatsie. Youth," says Phyllis Saretta, an instructor with the Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group, which Duke funded and danced with in the early 1970s. We'll have a great life together. "He was devastated. Duke died last October, leaving an estate reported to be between $750 million and $1.3 billion and lengthy obituaries which focused on her husbands and lovers, her houses in New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Hawaii, her collections of Oriental and Islamic art, her $5 million bailout of Imelda Marcos, and her perplexing relationship with Chandi Heffner. I think this was the steroid thing happening. I feel unsure of myself physically. Phyllis Saretta told me that Duke performed with the Farrah company four or five times, wearing a long black wig. You can live in the manner that I live and have this lifestyle. She was so alive. Ron Protas told me that in February or March of last year Duke agreed to guarantee a loan of $1 million for the Martha Graham Dance School. 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. WHAT'S POPULAR TODAY. "I looked upon Bernard as a member of the small Doris Duke family," says Donald Robinson. Jay Rockefeller Net Worth. ", 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. . She was not on steroids in the latter half of 1990, and this was not a mood swing. There was a gradual onset of a depressed relationship between Doris and Chandi, starting about the middle of 1990 and going progressively downhill. Then someone new entered the small Doris Duke family: James Burns, a 25-year-old former Marine and martial-arts enthusiast with a notably "buff" physique. I usually got one of the help. Heffner also said that Duke confided that she thought her mother had wanted to abort her. 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. Medical Center last summer. . She really had a feeling for him, and expressed annoyance with Imelda. We would hear it, and we would just joke about it. 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. Chandi Duke Heffner is known for Oh My God (2009). Heffner takes credit for everything from improving the dairy herd at Duke Farms to arranging the sale of Duke's gold deposits in Switzerland. . "He was doing a lot of embroidery work for Doris. As Heffner fights to undo the will, she speaks exclusively to BOB COLACELLO, who delves into the mystery of Duke's final years. ", Glenn Scott Greenhouse, the president of the Pavillion Agency, confirmed that Lafferty's drinking became an issue at the Peltzes'. He came over here, and she died. "Elvis made whites interested in black music," she once told me, "which was very important, because race is the biggest problem we have in America.". One night in August, Banks dined alone with Duke at Rough Point. I tried to see her the following week when I was in California, and there were about a dozen times since then that I called when I made trips to California, where I would simply get a response on the other end of the line that was: 'Miss Duke is doing well. Demopoulos said that Duke had mentioned her suspicions that she was being poisoned. For the Beckhams, this marriage is like sinking the best goal ever. And all around him were all these liquor bottlesGrand Marnier and sherry. This month, Chandi Heffner's lawyers, Ben Michel of Riker, Danzig and David Keyko of Winthrop, Stimson, will file her objections to Duke's will in New York State Surrogate Court, accusing Bernard Lafferty of "undue influence and sequestering." A Peltz-family friend told me that, contrary to reports in the press, "there was never any rivalry of any kind at any time between Claudia and Chandi. People get annoyed with their kids. Until Doris Duke's death, this would be her principal residence. Heffner has a sister, Charlene Gail Heffner who goes by the name Chandi Duke Heffner. She wasn't Barbara Hutton," says Marina Cicogna, who was a friend of both heiresses. I thought she'd live to 90 or 100. Richard Banks called Lafferty the next day. They maintained a familial relationship until 1990 when Doris Duke disinherited Heffner. As the organization grew, she set up a program exclusively focused on serving people in rural communities where money, jobs, health care, and education are scarce. Alec Cunningham-Reid. Irwin Bloom had made the arrangements and then Duke called Protas from Los Angeles and joked, ''For God's sake, try to pay it back," Protas recalled. Why doesn't she help you?' This whole thing is such a shock." It would be the last time the paparazzi caught her, and, true to form, she slapped Rossellini for not telling her the photographers would be there. Apparently, the warm weather had had a good effect. Charlene Gail Heffner goes by the name Chandi Duke Heffner. Up to that point, Heffner alleges, the two women shared an extremely close relationship, enjoying not only the opulence of Duke's estates, but also trips to Russia, "fountain of youth" treatments in Romania, finding suitable maids for the ornery billionaire after she'd been "blacklisted" by employment agencies, shopping for a $25 million Boeing 737, and a shared belief that Heffner was the reincarnation of Duke's only child, a daughter who died shortly after birth in 1940. This only fueled rumors about his sexuality further and . After the war, she moved to Paris and wrote for the magazine Harper's Bazaar . We'll travel together. This is a short video of an imaginary conversation between tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her adopted daughter Chandi Heffner, whom she met in a dance class . Duke may have been infatuated, but friends of Tirella's told me that he was unabashedly gay. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. When he went to pick her up, Lafferty told him, "Always keep me informed, so that I can be sure everything works." Duke turned up at the Ritz in Paris that October walking with a cane. ", Donald Robinson, who represented Duke in the Marcos matter, recalls going out to Duke Farms after Imelda Marcos posted bail in New York: "The group was Imelda and her lawyer, one of her daughters, Franco Rossellini, his friend Enzo Natale, Chandi, and Doris. She clapped her hands in glee. Steve comes about four, and he and I go up to Bernard's room. The couple lived together from 1990 until 1993. Because just as Doris was taking me to the door, there was Chandi with the caretaker. . "We concentrated on her leg-muscle group," he said. "I got a call from my sister's major-domo, Ferencz Soltesz," said Heffner, who had been living with Duke for two years at that point. He received nothing. 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. We were joking around, because we both had bad knees. 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