New PDF release: Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke

By Jason Thomas,Pony Duke

ISBN-10: 0060172185

ISBN-13: 9780060172183

Too wealthy: The relatives secrets and techniques of Doris Duke deals a desirable and sincere inside of portrait of a girl whose existence and loss of life are shrouded in secret. This hugely interesting biography, written by way of Jason Thomas and culled from the memories and family members documents of Duke's godson, Pony Duke, represents the one candid checklist of Doris Duke's extraordinary lifestyles and hugely arguable demise. From early childhood—too wealthy to play with different kids for worry of affliction, kidnapping, or blending with these of much less fascinating lineage—Doris used to be almost imprisoned in a chilly, sterile mansion on Manhattan's 5th street (the condo reeked of ammonia used to maintain her setting germ-free) with a strong father and a sour, blue-blooded mom. As she broke unfastened into maturity, Doris inherited an important fortune and realized to dwell existence on her personal phrases. She entered into an prepared marriage and later divorced (her first); she realized the methods of intercourse and wish within the palms of a muscular Hawaiian Olympic champion; she her subsequent love into international conflict II and again by myself. And amid her various and headline-making affairs, Doris Duke elevated her monstrous wealth. Her investments in genuine property, paintings, and enterprise allowed her to go away at the back of way more funds than she inherited, anything few heiresses can boast. She realized from an early age that those that befriended her brain or romanced her physique probably wanted her pockets, and this awareness left Doris Duke a lonely woman.
From interviews, inner most kinfolk records, and the phrases of Doris herself, Too wealthy presents evidence and insights by no means earlier than unearthed by way of the skin media. Her extraordinary adoption of a thirty-five-year-old lady, Chandi Heffner, and, in later years, sensational occasions surrounding Duke's loss of life and suspected homicide in 1993—including the interior tale of her butler, Bernard Lafferty—are meticulously documented during this uniquely intimate portrait of 1 of the main fascinating and arguable celebrities of the 20th century.

PONY DUKE is Doris Duke's cousin and godson and one of many surviving contributors of the Duke extended family. he's a self-employed businessman and rancher dwelling in Montana. JASON THOMAS is a novelist and previous nationally syndicated columnist.

She was once the richest baby born in the US; she had the president's deepest cellphone quantity; her scandalous marriages and affairs—with an envoy, Olympian, musician, baby-kisser, normal, foreign stud, and picture star—were mythical. yet who, rather, used to be Doris Duke? Who used to be the mysterious lady in the back of the billions, who took deepest excitement in making a song gospel tune, loving nature, and seducing males? What insurmountable principles and expectancies of wealth corralled her existence into the area of the lonely elite—and led, on the age of 80, to her alleged murder?

Too wealthy used to be made right into a winning CBS tv mini-series entitled Too wealthy: the key lifetime of Doris Duke starring Richard Chamberlain and Lauren Bacall.

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