Youth," says Phyllis Saretta, an instructor with the Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group, which Duke funded and danced with in the early 1970s. One night at dinner, Heffner told me, "Doris said to me, 'You're my daughter reincarnated. This gives her the air of philanthropy. 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.' Her stage name was Sahda. "Doris did this more for the president. One repeated her response to a straight man who was reluctant to have dinner with Rock Hudson for fear that he would be molested. For the Beckhams, this marriage is like sinking the best goal ever. Once Chandi was adopted she took over Dukes life. The press decided she had become an eccentric recluse. 'Doris Duke really was the last Chinese empress, the last of a type that doesn't exist anymore. You felt that she was going to break. Alec Cunningham-Reid. Doris told Chandi that she was happy about her having a man in her life. . Rich L.A. homeowners are snapping them up, Column: Supreme Court conservatives may want to block student loan forgiveness. In any case, their friendship ended in tragedy that October, when Duke ran him over as he was opening the gate of Rough Point. New York magazine reported after her death that she had a knee operation at U.C.L.A. And Doris said, 'How about the one next to you?' 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. We were joking around, because we both had bad knees. ", Though she still would occasionally joke, "I haven't had any greens lately," which Nancy Cooke de Herrera says was Duke's code for sex, she seemed to be settling down. Because just as Doris was taking me to the door, there was Chandi with the caretaker. He went to Sarasota High School. Chandi Heffner is a small, sturdy woman with thick black shoulder-length hair and bone-white skin, Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes, She was wearing a dark-blue Paradise on show: Inside the exotic retreat of tobacco More Than $65 Million For Adopted Duke Daughter BILLIONAIRE'S HEIR OUT OF PLACE 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 used to tell her, 'You know, Doris, some people do like you for yourself. "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. After Tirella's death, she seemed consumed with the idea of actually becoming a performer. Jane Engelhard sat next to the bodyguard, and you should have seen her face. Lafferty served. 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. . Chandi Duke Heffner, age 60s, lives in Kamuela, HI. . ") Nor was she a crazy eccentric. They all of a sudden just totally cut me off, and I can't believe that was Doris. Claudia Heffner's Sister Has A Weird Story. 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. Then she became pregnant and had a premature daughter named Arden, who lived only 24 hours. She wasn't Barbara Hutton," says Marina Cicogna, who was a friend of both heiresses. But she got up again, and we did our steps. . Of course, many of the sources for these allegations are people who were left out of the will, or cut out of the will, or people who hope to eventually receive grants from the Duke foundations. ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. 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. Phyllis Saretta says, "Chandi told me that her sister had a butler and a chauffeur and the whole thing. It was perhaps her last romantic affair, and in some respects foreshadowed her relationship with Chandi Heffner. Her second husband, Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, fared only slightly better: His divorce settlement was estimated at $1 million. 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. 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. "Io sono molto contento. 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. Once a day, she meditates in her "deity room," which is filled with golden statues from India. 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. "He had done her hair in a pageboy, and she looked so pretty, though she was painfully thin." According to a half-page biography released by Howard J. Rubenstein Associates, Bernard Lafferty was born in Ireland in 1945 and immigrated to the United States more than 20 years ago. Learn how your comment data is processed. Banks never saw her again. (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. LOS ANGELES (AP) _ An ex-Marine sued the adopted daughter of late tobacco heiress Doris Duke for $33 million in palimony, claiming he gave up three years of his life to encourage her friendship with Duke. It was 1982, and Heffner was taking a class at Farrah's studio near Times Square. 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. She started taking piano lessons before she went to school, had pianos in every one of her houses as well as in the black lacquered living room of her Park Avenue penthouse, and played every afternoon. And when she left, that adverse thing ceased. I fumbled through an introduction. 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." ", Heffner was sitting in the Manhattan apartment of one of her lawyers on a Saturday afternoon late last December. His mother was a teacher, while his father fought as a pilot during WWII. I said, 'Doris, get out of that house. Duke died at age 80 in 1988, leaving a hotly contested $1.5 billion estate. (Other sources say the meeting took place in 1985.) They hired him on Ferencz Soltesz's recommendation. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. "She designed those houses and she saw to every color," says Newport artist Richard Banks. This whole thing is such a shock." She had several indiscreet affairs of her own, with Errol Flynn, Hawaiian swimming champion Duke Kahanamoku, and British M.P. The billionaire believed that Chandi was the reincarnation of her dead kid. And he called from a pay phone, and I felt so sorry for this guy, I said, 'Come to Somerville.' "Bernard got out of the hospital. 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. "Cromwell was quite nice," says Nelson Seabra, a rich Brazilian friend of Duke's. Moreover, Heffner's legal complaint against Duke states: Doris . Apparently, the warm weather had had a good effect. The power that this will gives Bernard Lafferty is "awesome," says one attorney. You can live in the manner that I live and have this lifestyle. She was alarmingly fragile." The rest of the house was dark, which was odd. Imelda stayed for a week, I think. ", 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. . . She is asking for compensatory and punitive damages in an unspecified amount "to support her for the rest of her life in the style she had enjoyed" while serving as a companion to the eccentric billionaire. 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. WHAT'S POPULAR TODAY. Duke was spending the spring, as usual, at her 2,700-acre Duke Farms, in Somerville, New Jersey. Most of Duke's friends hadn't had an inkling. "She got baby doses for a few weeks and that was it. We knock, we bang, we yell. "We concentrated on her leg-muscle group," he said. I tried repeatedly to get in contact with her. It would come back. James Burns, now an aspiring actor in Los Angeles, says that he and Chandi "are giving each other space for a while.". 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. After a two-week rejuvenation cure in Romania with the controversial Dr. Anna Aslan, they stopped in London. Doris said, 'Do you have time for a drink?' "And believe me, she didn't get to $1.3 billion without working at it. ChatGPT who? After testy negotiations with local authorities, she finally shipped the pieces to New Jersey and installed them in her indoor tennis court. . But I have no real medical knowledge of what transpired in California during the spring and summer of last year.". 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. "She wasn't just one of those rich women who said, 'Restore me 60 houses.' Heffner takes credit for everything from improving the dairy herd at Duke Farms to arranging the sale of Duke's gold deposits in Switzerland. In 1985, she met Chandi Heffner, a 32-year-old Hari Krishna devotee. ", "I was not involved. Phyllis Saretta told me that Duke performed with the Farrah company four or five times, wearing a long black wig. She had episodes of pneumonia, she had clots in her veins, and some of those clots may have traveled to her lungs. ", Robert Farrah agrees: "Doris Duke was not this elusive reclusive. Medical Center last summer. Duke may have been infatuated, but friends of Tirella's told me that he was unabashedly gay. This stuff was from Miss Duke's father. "But she thought everybody was after her money. Community. I have come to the realization that her primary motive was financial gain. All; Titles; TV Episodes; Celebs; Companies; Keywords; They had done the whole kitchen togetherthe carpentry, everything. "He wanted a settlement," says Nancy Cooke de Herrera, "but you could not get a nickel out of Doris if you came at her the wrong way." 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. Born on 1940 to James Henry Roberts Cromwell and Doris Duke. ", "I'm crazy about Bernard," says Oatsie Charles. "Nobody gave Doris any credit for having any taste, any intelligence, any anything," says Marion Oates Charles, known as Oatsie. The circumstances of Dukes death remain under investigation. ". In November 1991, Duke had a new will written, naming Irwin Bloom and Chemical Bank as executors. Demopoulos wasn't the only one to notice a change in Duke's attitude after Heffner was out of her life. Richard Banks called Lafferty the next day. He always seemed to be there whenever she needed him. Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes. In 1969, socialite C. Z. And all around him were all these liquor bottlesGrand Marnier and sherry. "Not at all. 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. 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. . In June 1985, Duke and Heffner traveled to Russia together. And the servants were absolutely bizarreponytailed, rings, sandals ". And the whispers about Duke's last years continue. "I was not aware of his drinking problem when I placed him there, but I did inform Chandi [before sending him to Doris Duke's]. Records: 123. I called the California home and the other sites many times. That was a going-out-of-your-way gesture." Chandi Heffner Duke passed away on 1940. She formally adopted Heffner in 1988. Paul and his family moved to Sarasota, Florida, when he was nine years old. Heffner told me that Duke was annoyed with Rossellini for falling behind on the rent on the New Jersey guesthouse. When Doris died, there was a well publicized estate fight between Chandi and Doriss ex butler, Bernard Lafferty. That was Doris. He received nothing. The Untold Truth of Stephen Hawking's Son - Ti. ", According to Farrah, Heffner never actually took part in a dance class, because her leg was in a cast. Meanwhile, Bernard said he wasn't feeling well and went back up to his room. (Marcos was eventually acquitted, and returned to the Philippines.). According to her New York Times obituary, the cause of death was "pulmonary edema resulting in cardiac arrest." . 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. . She was so distressed about losing the baby. And I was surprised. And the person who could best illuminate Doris Duke's declining days, Bernard Lafferty, refused to talk to me. Dukes father, James Buchanan Duke, founded American Tobacco Co. Heffner, 42, was adopted by Duke in 1988, but after the two had a falling out, Duke took Heffner out of the will. Chandi said, 'But where do I find a man?' I know a lot of bull dykes. According to the 1993 Forbes Four Hundred list, Doris Duke was the 18th-richest woman in America, not far behind cosmetics billionairess Este Lauder. During this period, Duke also plunged into three large-scale public projects. It doesn't mean I'll go to bed with them.". Lafferty was accused of conspiring to kill his terminally ill employer with morphine. sometimes I can't believe it's real. 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. She said, 'I'm very frightened. She's getting better.' She was like a flower child, even though the era was over. There's no question that Bernard was more than just a butler. He has an alcohol problem, but he's a basically good person. "It was really sad," Heffner said, "because Martha arrived and Doris wouldn't go see her. 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.". His family all died, and he had one remaining relative, in Philadelphia. Tom Ford. Some questioned Reubens sexuality at the time until in 1989 when Reubens engaged in a "mock wedding" with Chandi Heffner, the adopted daughter of tobacco heiress Doris Duke. "Her legs were almost starting to atrophy from lack of exercise." Enzo Natale says, "Chandi had accused me of trying to rape her in Honolulu. Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. 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. ", They went into Duke's fabled Islamic Room"you'd think you were in the salon of Sleyman the Magnificent" and over tea and sherry they discussed the pet boar that Heffner had nursed with a baby bottle after it had been abandoned by its mother, as well as Heffner's leg problems. Franco Rossellini assured everyone that he was all for it. I do feel like I'm being drugged. 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. Heffner was in New York for a week, visiting her sister Claudia, who had married Nelson Peltz in 1980. Doris Duke committed suicide. It's not true. Why doesn't she help you?' Her first husband, James R. Cromwell, called Duke "my frigidheiress" and engaged in a lengthy court battle to win a financial settlement. She never married again, and from then on the men in her life, whether they were lovers or not, were considerably younger and came from the creative world. So we went into the room, and Bernard was buck naked, bent over a chair, passed out. . 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. "It was unbelievable how hard she worked. I hired him to come out [to Los Angeles] and work for me, to kind of be my majordomo here. . Heffner had asked him to have dinner with her and Gordon Damon, and he had told her to pick him up at Duke's front gate. 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.' There was lack of ostentation. 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. Thats not much considering what shes worth. Chandi, which means "female energy personified" in Sanskrit, was born Charlene Heffner in Baltimore on August 26, 1953, the eldest of three daughters of William Heffner, a lawyer, and his wife, "Bunny," a nurse. . ". That's the same as around $125 million in today's dollars. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. . Nicolas mother, Claudia, has a sister we havent forgotten about. After she returned to Newport later that month, Banks invited her to a concert, but she forgot the date. The baby's death profoundly affected Duke, and she even hired psychics to try to. Nelson Peltz is financing Chandi Heffner's legal battle. And then the wine was $1,000 a bottle; it came from her father's cellars. 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 . Duke Kahanamoku went in after her and saved her. 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. Then [Franco and I] didn't see Doris anymore. For Industry Professionals. This was at 11 in the morning. 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." ", 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. It happened on a train to California. It's so hard for me still, so hard." Chandi was into Eastern cultures and all that stuff, and so was Doris. As Heffner fights to undo the will, she speaks exclusively to BOB COLACELLO, who delves into the mystery of Duke's final years. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jewish immigrants. In Doris's case, she had done that. Keep in mind, people are entitled to a change of heart. Guest introduced Duke to Leon Amar, a 30-year-old Moroccan decorator. I think she did it to make James jealous. . She said, 'There was nothing to do on that train.' 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. 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. 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. When I go I'll be eaten by the sharks.". 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. "I said, 'What's wrong?' I said, 'Sure, have him call me.' Usually something came in the mail that she wanted to discuss, because Chandi was taking care of her financial affairs. How do we get rid of her? 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. ", Another of Duke's intimates said that the real reason her closest friends were in favor of the adoption was that "Doris had contemplated suicide, and we thought we could have some peace of mind that she wouldn't kill herself as long as Chandi was around. 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. Demopoulos said that Duke had mentioned her suspicions that she was being poisoned. ), HBOs Hit Show The Last of Us Finally Vaults Over 1 Million Viewers on Main Channel. Duke believed that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden. 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. If I were Victoria Beckham, I wouldnt count on a big wedding present. Who can help student-athletes cash in? She was very happy doing that.". He also instilled in her an almost reflexive inability to trust people. I think somebody is trying to kill me.". Keyko said that $800,000 was paid to Heffner on Friday. Chandi sued Duke's estate. Call your pilot tonight and leave immediately and go to Los Angeles and get checked up.' Duke. 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 told me, "Doris used to call James 'Teach.' Nicola has an eclectic family, worthy of a Robert Altman movie a la A Wedding. On the plus side, theres the money. Despite the negative publicity, she fought her husband in the courts for five years, until he gave in. 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. ", Heffner was with Gary McElroy, with whom she was then living on a communal farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. She was wearing a dark-blue turtleneck, old Levi's, cotton socks, and scruffy moccasins. And I didn't sense any antagonism between Chandi and Bernard." Finally, one of her new lawyers, Mr. Doyle, got it back on track. "It was strange. 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 . And along about March, I sent flowers and candy to her California home. We had a nice dinner with appropriate toasts, and Franco entertained us with anecdotes and imitations. 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. Around Christmas, Duke rented a house in Honolulu for Martha Graham and Ron Protas. (1940 - 1940) Photos: 19. Things escalated. This was the fifth time that Duke had rewritten or revised her will since Heffner's banishment 26 months earlier. She also asked to be buried at sea. 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. Chandi Duke Heffner was recognized for her outstanding support of the Marshall Legacy Institute's, landmine detection program. . "That was quite an event. 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 remember when I read his resume, I thought, This man has really been through it. "Rubi" was also presented with a string of polo ponies and a house in Paris. John Warnecke was told by Johnny Gomez, Duke's elderly caretaker in Honolulu, that "she was so full of beans, she decided to have both knees done at one time, and one knee got infected and she had to have another operation. One night in August, Banks dined alone with Duke at Rough Point. Heffner, 40, a former belly dancer and member of the Hare Krishna, was left nothing by Duke and claimed the heiress was not of "sound mind and memory" when she rather feebly signed the new. She told me that her parents did not approve of her lifestyle, and that they'd cut her off from everything. In the morning, Bernard didn't come down until 11:30, and he was a mess. You don't have to go back. "It was ironic that the man Doris loved the most was the greatest gigolo of all time," says Marina Cicogna. 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