Once Chandi was adopted she took over Dukes life. He always seemed to be there whenever she needed him. His family all died, and he had one remaining relative, in Philadelphia. ", 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. Now, please understand that I'm not accusing anyone of anything.". For some reason, Doris actually came to believe that Chandi. "It was ironic that the man Doris loved the most was the greatest gigolo of all time," says Marina Cicogna. I feel unsure of myself physically. They maintained a familial relationship until 1990 when Doris Duke disinherited Heffner. About the time Bloom was fired, Duke also abruptly left Chemical Bank and replaced her estate lawyer, William Zabel, of Schulte Roth & Zabel, with William Doyle, of the Chicago firm of Katten Muchin & Zavis. After Tirella's death, she seemed consumed with the idea of actually becoming a performer. Most of Duke's friends hadn't had an inkling. 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. Alec Cunningham-Reid. And last May, Surrogate Preminger accepted Miss Duke's. "He was so attentive," Banks says. "Doris was seeing a Japanese therapist for her knee problems . Duke was spending the spring, as usual, at her 2,700-acre Duke Farms, in Somerville, New Jersey. The next day Duke's lawyer called Heffner again and informed her that Duke wanted her out, too. And then the wine was $1,000 a bottle; it came from her father's cellars. ", 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. 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. Things escalated. "There was a rumor that she did it deliberately. Chandi was into Eastern cultures and all that stuff, and so was Doris. ''Doris and I had been in the Gobi Desert together, and we found out they were becoming a threatened species." He also said he had worked on and off for Peggy Lee for 10 years. If anyone has news on Chandi from the far reaches of Hawaii, drop us a line at showbiz411@gmail.com. . Chandi Heffner is a small, sturdy woman with thick black shoulder-length hair and bone-white skin. She was very intelligent and very together. We used to joke that she'd outlive me. Medical Center last summer. Duke may have been infatuated, but friends of Tirella's told me that he was unabashedly gay. . I suppose it was Doris's fault for never talking about what she did.". Records: 123. . 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. This went on almost every meal. This gives her the air of philanthropy. After a two-week rejuvenation cure in Romania with the controversial Dr. Anna Aslan, they stopped in London. You're Arden. '" SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) _ Reclusive multimillionaire Doris Duke has adopted a 35-year-old conservationist as a daughter, her lawyer said Friday. His breath almost knocked me off my feet.' There was lack of ostentation. Woody Brock, who visited her with Oatsie Charles that summer, says, "It must have been 85 degrees outside, and she had on a white sweater and a roaring fire in every room. 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. She had episodes of pneumonia, she had clots in her veins, and some of those clots may have traveled to her lungs. 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 . Doris Duke dumped Chandi Heffner because Heffner wanted to marry one of their bodyguards. According to Robert Farrah, the director of the Ibrahim Farrah company, for several months in the late 60s she took private belly-dancing classes with him every morning for two hours in New York and then flew from LaGuardia to Detroit, where she had rented a motel room near the airport and installed a piano for her afternoon singing lessons with Aretha Franklin's father. The last words were 'Stay in touch, Harry.' "She forgave Rubi everything," says Reinaldo Herrera, even his subsequent marriage to Barbara Hutton. 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 . "When we were together," Heffner continued, "when things were really great, Doris was in wonderful shape. Ferencz Soltesz [the Peltzes' majordomo] told me he's an excellent butler so long as you keep him off the bottle. . Heffner also said that Duke confided that she thought her mother had wanted to abort her. Heres a description of Chandi (seen in the picture here on the right, with Duke and Imelda Marcos) from her website. But she had a dramatic change in her lifeand it was weird. She was alarmingly fragile." 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. Mahn soon left, and in 1987 co-authored Daddy's Duchess: The Unauthorized Biography of Doris Duke. I came back clean as a whistle. She was taking so many pills at the end and, knowingly or not, killed herself. I asked Phyllis Saretta what she thought the attraction was. He named both his private Pullman car and his 80-foot yacht after her, and surrounded her with bodyguards. She told me during a break that she had studied reiki, a Japanese healing rite, and she said, 'Maybe I could help you with your knee.' 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. How do we get rid of her? Chandi Heffner told me that Duke confided the truth to her: "It wasn't Cromwell's, and it wasn't her lover Alec's. According to a frequent guest at Duke's various houses, Duke became more and more upset with Burns: "Doris told me that James started to strut around the place as if he was Mr. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. All. He's standing on a street corner in New York right now and needs a place to go. That's not the Doris I knew. In June 1985, Duke and Heffner traveled to Russia together. Community. ", Sometimes, Robert Farrah recalls, "Doris would throw up her hands and say, 'No wills! and as we were leaving they exchanged telephone numbers. 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. It's so hard for me still, so hard." Last year she gave. 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. Duke is portrayed by her adopted daughter as a lonely, paranoid recluse in need of constant care. ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. 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. The couple lived together from 1990 until 1993. 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. Her second husband, Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, fared only slightly better: His divorce settlement was estimated at $1 million. We wouldn't sit in the main dining room. A member of the Duke family, who requested anonymity, said yesterday, "I think Doris will turn it over to her lawyer and say, 'Crush her.' Later on we would sleep together and Doris would come in most mornings and sit there on the bed with us and talk. "Buck" Duke was obsessed with his only child. Apparently, the warm weather had had a good effect. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? Heffner Duke, adopted in 1988 when she was 38 and the heiress was in her 70s, could not be reached for comment. Doris was into it, too. This should be some rehearsal dinner! Today, Chandi lives on a palatial farm in. . She wasn't Barbara Hutton," says Marina Cicogna, who was a friend of both heiresses. So did Imelda. I called the California home and the other sites many times. 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. "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]. And he had quite a history. And he would tell me, 'Miss Heffner's complaining.' 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 wasn't about being a pretty, rich American girl. While Lafferty was hospitalized, Rybak says, "Doris said to me, 'Tom, we are going to leave this up to you. 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. She said, 'There was nothing to do on that train.' In 1969, socialite C. Z. 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. It would be her last trip to Europe, and she also visited Poland with Brazilian grande dame Aime de Hereen. Duke's Los Angeles decorator Tony Duquette adds, "He was just marvelous to Doris, and not at all sinister. Claudia Heffner's Sister Has A Weird Story. Movies. Lafferty has released few details about Duke's final illness. Youth," says Phyllis Saretta, an instructor with the Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group, which Duke funded and danced with in the early 1970s. James Burns, now an aspiring actor in Los Angeles, says that he and Chandi "are giving each other space for a while.". One evening Steve Levy said that Miss Duke wanted him to administer a urine test on me. Chandi got a couple of the housemen, and they brought him to the Somerville hospital." Help Center Contributor Zone Polls. ", 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. Once a day, she meditates in her "deity room," which is filled with golden statues from India. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jewish immigrants. 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. On October 6, it was announced that Duke had made a donation of $1 million to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. Meanwhile, Bernard said he wasn't feeling well and went back up to his room. . ", She had already been planning to divorce Cromwell, but he apparently demanded a $7 million settlement. He made a comment that Doris had a fair number of complications as a result of the surgery. Heffner takes credit for everything from improving the dairy herd at Duke Farms to arranging the sale of Duke's gold deposits in Switzerland. 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. ", Donald Robinson, a New Jersey lawyer who had worked closely with Duke since the early 70s, will not comment about the lawsuit, but he speaks glowingly of Heffner's abilities. The next day I got a phone call from Doris to thank me. I said, 'Sure, have him call me.' Duke. 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. There were four witnesses, including Dr. Charles Kivowitz, a fashionable Beverly Hills internist. She really considered herself a dancer. 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. Doris seemed very, very happy. Inspired by this trip, they bought the most spectacular piece of property near Diamond Head in Honolulu, on which they built a Mogul-style fortress and named it Shangri La. 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. ", "When one of Doris's love affairs ended, there was always great drama," says her friend Consuelo Crespi. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in. She took daily tap lessons from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson at the Cotton Club, and for years studied ballet under Cyd Charisse's ex-husband, Nico. 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. (Other sources say the meeting took place in 1985.) We would hear it, and we would just joke about it. ", Thomas Rybak, who had been working as Doris Duke's chef for several months when Lafferty was hired in May 1987, at a salary of about $500 a week, paints a different picture. "She got us our first booking, in that black church in New Jersey. No wills! "You know, fate is strange. She had several indiscreet affairs of her own, with Errol Flynn, Hawaiian swimming champion Duke Kahanamoku, and British M.P. There's no question that Bernard was more than just a butler. Heffner pleaded on his behalf and asked to speak to Duke, but Robinson told her that Duke was tired. It doesn't mean I'll go to bed with them.". 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. When Doris died, there was a well publicized estate fight between Chandi and Doriss ex butler, Bernard Lafferty. 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. She has completely wired the small house on her own, and she boards horses and cows for neighbors for $15 a head per month. Duke believed that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden. Love. 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. It would come back. 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. When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. It was at this time, she said, that Duke told her that she thought her food was being poisoned. I knew from the beginning she was a son of a bitch." ", Duke had a passion for the performing arts all her life. She was a cool lady. View their profile including current address, phone number 808-882-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Whitepages, the most trusted online directory. Through shrewd investments and her legendary parsimony, she managed to more than triple her holdings. Chandi Heffner Duke passed away on 1940. The two camels were right outside the dining room on a blue tarpaulin. Friends of Duke have intimated that the heiress had become fearful of Heffner's behavior, and eventually locked her out of the Hawaiian estate in early 1991. 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. A stingy southern belle, Nanaline Holt Inman was a widow with one son when she married Buck Duke in 1907. On New Year's Day 1964, she ordered him out, and he retaliated by suing her, claiming that they had been secretly married. Then the U.S. government blindsided it, Column: Uber and Lyfts deactivation policy is dehumanizing and unfair. Around Christmas, Duke rented a house in Honolulu for Martha Graham and Ron Protas. The billionaire believed that Chandi was the reincarnation of her dead kid. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Both Duke and Heffner served as close advisers to Marcos during her trial for fraud and racketeering. That led to pneumonia and she couldn't eat and it was on and off, on and off, for months.". ", 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. She also asked to be buried at sea. This was not a frivolous woman, either. Shes the daughter of billionaire Nelson Peltz. 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. Los Angeles, A $150,000 executive protection dog? So we went into the room, and Bernard was buck naked, bent over a chair, passed out. "She looked great," Warnecke says. "Sometimes people are attracted to the thing they fear the most.". Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. ", "I was not involved. 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. 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. We were joking around, because we both had bad knees. But I have no real medical knowledge of what transpired in California during the spring and summer of last year.". We would be four, six, eightOatsie Charles, Nuala Pell, Minnie Cushing, Lita McBean and her husband, and Sunny and me. She had this terrible fear of fire." Jane Engelhard sat next to the bodyguard, and you should have seen her face. 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 "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. I think this was the steroid thing happening. Doris's statements to Chandi to this effect were confirmed by [her lawyer Donald] Robinson as well, who told Chandi he had prepared the necessary documents to make provision for the disposition of Doris's estate, and that Chandi would be "totally in control. And Doris said, 'How about the one next to you?' It was perhaps her last romantic affair, and in some respects foreshadowed her relationship with Chandi Heffner. "Miss Duke said to me, 'I think I may have been drugged. In 1966, a few days after Duke suddenly shut down the record company she had started for Castro, he broke her jaw, according to Mansfield, and she fled to Newport with Eduardo Tirella, a handsome young set designer. She was having a real whirl." The two exchanged their "vows" at Duke's Hawaiian mansion, but it was revealed the whole thing was a hoax. . Doris loved animals. I think she did it to make James jealous. He was very good at repairing old costumes and fabric. . 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. 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. 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. He has an alcohol problem, but he's a basically good person. "Io sono molto contento. One night in August, Banks dined alone with Duke at Rough Point. She told me that in the months prior to her fall from grace one of Duke's doctors was injecting her with steroids, for knee problems, and that the psychological side effects of "the substance enabled the other people to talk her into whatever they wanted. They named them Princess and Baby. And along about March, I sent flowers and candy to her California home. 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.' Only one other trustee was named in the will, Marion Oates Charles, Duke's longtime summer neighbor in Newport, Rhode Island. That's the same as around $125 million in today's dollars. "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.". "Most of them didn't want to leave. She clapped her hands in glee. I have come to the realization that her primary motive was financial gain. ", Heffner was sitting in the Manhattan apartment of one of her lawyers on a Saturday afternoon late last December. . She was not on steroids in the latter half of 1990, and this was not a mood swing. I remember her referring to 'we dancers.' She also lent another $5 million to Marcos to cover her legal expenses (and asked for it back in her will). . One night at dinner, Heffner told me, "Doris said to me, 'You're my daughter reincarnated. There was a gradual onset of a depressed relationship between Doris and Chandi, starting about the middle of 1990 and going progressively downhill. Lafferty also may pay fees to and divide commissions among the trustees as he sees fit. And the servants were absolutely bizarreponytailed, rings, sandals ". But she got up again, and we did our steps. "Ferencz said, 'We had a butler who was fired. He went to Sarasota High School. Moreover, Heffner's legal complaint against Duke states: Doris . She was very happy doing that.". 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. 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