One of the richest women in the world, Doris Duke lived life on her own terms. When she died in 1993, Duke left behind more than $2 billion, most of it under the control of her butler, with instructions to keep her estate intact for her reincarnation. This sensational, illustrated biography offers the definitive account of Doris Duke's life and ...
At her father's death in the 1920s, the press tagged Doris Duke "the richest girl in the world". This biography offers a glimpse into a world where pain and boredom are the only enemies, and money is the whip that keeps them at bay. 8 pages of photographs.
An account of the life and death of Doris Duke, the reclusive American socialite whose increasingly bizarre behavior in her later years culminated in the mysterious circumstances of her death. In his re-creation of the Duke's last days, Schwarz makes use of the insights of Tom Rybak, a former employee at the Duke estate, and attempts to solve the ...
In the 1950s and 1960s, Doris Duke was one of the few Western collectors pursuing Thai artworks, and in 1961 she established the Foundation for Southeast Asian Art and Culture to increase Western recognition and appreciation of these works. By 1964 Miss Duke had acquired roughly 2,000 diverse pieces of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art ...
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