Medical Center last summer. "She designed those houses and she saw to every color," says Newport artist Richard Banks. "I said, 'What's wrong?' ", 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. Nicola has an eclectic family, worthy of a Robert Altman movie a la A Wedding. On the plus side, theres the money. The two camels were right outside the dining room on a blue tarpaulin. 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 remember that most: that she seemed very happy with her life at that period. Even Imelda didn't see her.". There was a little alcove under the stairs, and the food would be nice but ordinary. "She out-Leona Helmsleyed Leona Helmsley," Duffy said of Heffner. According to the 1993 Forbes Four Hundred list, Doris Duke was the 18th-richest woman in America, not far behind cosmetics billionairess Este Lauder. 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. 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. This gives her the air of philanthropy. He's a sweet human being, and he seemed to be honest and fiercely defensive of Doris. In the morning, Bernard didn't come down until 11:30, and he was a mess. Love. Newport police declared it an accident, and her friends still swear that it was. Moreover, Heffner's legal complaint against Duke states: Doris . 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. She really had a feeling for him, and expressed annoyance with Imelda. "He seemed depressed, and Doris thought it would give him more self-esteem. Enzo Natale concurs: "Chandi and Bernard were twins.". And let me tell you that she gave a really nice dinner party for me at the nadir of my fortunes. ". ), HBOs Hit Show The Last of Us Finally Vaults Over 1 Million Viewers on Main Channel. There were four witnesses, including Dr. Charles Kivowitz, a fashionable Beverly Hills internist. When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. She was like a flower child, even though the era was over. He rushed to complete what was then the most expensive house on Fifth Avenue in time for her birth at home, on November 22, 1912. She wasn't Barbara Hutton," says Marina Cicogna, who was a friend of both heiresses. sometimes I can't believe it's real. Miss Duke lives in a walled 2,700-acre estate in Hillsborough, and rarely attracted . . Help Center Contributor Zone Polls. "I don't think you're supposed to use alcohol with steroids, and she was drinking sherry in the evenings." And last May, Surrogate Preminger accepted Miss Duke's. "That was quite an event. "You know, fate is strange. Who can help student-athletes cash in? They were disciples of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master of the Hare Krishna movement, and they had been unofficially married in a ceremony in India in the 70s. The next day Duke's lawyer called Heffner again and informed her that Duke wanted her out, too. 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. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jewish immigrants. Imelda stayed for a week, I think. Doris bought her a sprawling horse farm worth then 30 years ago over a million bucks. It was 1982, and Heffner was taking a class at Farrah's studio near Times Square. Duke may have been infatuated, but friends of Tirella's told me that he was unabashedly gay. It happened on a train to California. Doris and I used to go fairly regularly to see the president in the hospital; she would give him reiki treatments.". "He was obviously unhappy. 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. After giving the matter prolonged and serious consideration, I am convinced that I should not have adopted Chandi Heffner. "Io sono molto contento. In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. She's getting better.' But she got up again, and we did our steps. . We'll travel together. ", Heffner was with Gary McElroy, with whom she was then living on a communal farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. She was having a real whirl." Her lawyer, David Keyko, said yesterday that in. Instead, she was cremated during the weekend following her death, and her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean off Shangri La on November 17, 1993, by Bernard Lafferty and Johnny Gomez, along with the hibiscus leis she loved. It was clear that something adverse was going on in the latter part of 1990 in Hawaii. . No wills! ", 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. 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. "It was strange. Mercedes Bass remembered Duke's coming for tea at the Carlyle Hotel a year or so earlier and introducing Heffner as "my niece." I called the California home and the other sites many times. 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. I knew from the beginning she was a son of a bitch." Id love to be a fly on the wall when David and Victoria Beckham meet their sons fiancees family. The couple lived together from 1990 until 1993. One night at dinner, Heffner told me, "Doris said to me, 'You're my daughter reincarnated. All. 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. I asked Doris and she said, 'Yeah, it's fine.' . 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. 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." 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 thought she was really nice, genuine.". Earlier this year, Manhattan Surrogate Court Judge Eve Preminger removed Lafferty from that position for allegedly squandering the estates assets on lavish living but Lafferty is appealing the ruling. Sources at Duke's estates, however, portrayed Heffner in a different light. And then he was going to A.A., and he did very well in A.A., as far as I know. Lafferty served. They had done the whole kitchen togetherthe carpentry, everything. That's not the Doris I knew. 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. 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 contending that Duke reneged on a promise to support her for life, said Heffners lawyer, David Keyko. I was not aware of what management roles he might or might not have had. ChatGPT who? Heffner almost broke down again. 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. This Grand Marnier was so old the labels had been written by hand. 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. If you want, we will give Bernard another chance, or we will get another butler. ' As a young girl, she wrote him love notes, which he pored over again and again. But on Nicolas mothers side, things get more interesting. ", "I was not involved. 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. 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. . In 1969, socialite C. Z. Born Today Most Popular Celebs Most Popular Celebs Celebrity News. I think somebody is trying to kill me.". ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. Both Duke and Heffner served as close advisers to Marcos during her trial for fraud and racketeering. You're Arden. '" 'I loved her so much. Heffner Duke, adopted in 1988 when she was 38 and the heiress was in her 70s, could not be reached for comment. "Whenever she walked into your room, she made the room," recalls Mercedes Bass. The rest of the house was dark, which was odd. It was perhaps her last romantic affair, and in some respects foreshadowed her relationship with Chandi 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]. 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. As Heffner fights to undo the will, she speaks exclusively to BOB COLACELLO, who delves into the mystery of Duke's final years. Enzo Natale says, "Chandi had accused me of trying to rape her in Honolulu. She also asked to be buried at sea. 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.' We knock, we bang, we yell. This only fueled rumors about his sexuality further and . 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. So we let him start, and we had problems with the alcohol and did our best to put him in a situation where he dried out. Community. Miss Duke, 75, adopted Chandi Hefner, who owns ''extensive property in Hawaii,'' and has been living with her for three years, attorney Donald A. Robinson said. "Doris had gone surfing," explains Nancy Cooke de Herrera, an old friend from Hawaii. The circumstances of Dukes death remain under investigation. . Her estate, said one family member yesterday, is valued at more than $1 billion. . . He could barely speak.". ), By then the center of her social life was Franco Rossellini, the extremely amusing and gay Italian movie producer, whom she had met about 1975. Her telephone was not listed in the Los Angeles area. 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 . Lafferty had been working for Nelson and Claudia Peltz for the previous seven months, and Rybak says, "The Peltzes put him in a 28-day program. One afternoon in February, the architect John Warnecke went to Shangri La for tea. People get annoyed with their kids. . We took him to Newport. Menu. I think she did it to make James jealous. If anyone has news on Chandi from the far reaches of Hawaii, drop us a line at showbiz411@gmail.com. I remember when I read his resume, I thought, This man has really been through it. Heffner paints a sedate portrait of their life together, with Doris retiring to her music room, Chandi dealing with the employees and both women sharing vegetarian dinners. Around Christmas, Duke rented a house in Honolulu for Martha Graham and Ron Protas. "Rubi" was also presented with a string of polo ponies and a house in Paris. Doris said, 'Do you have time for a drink?' (Burns dismisses reports that he was once a Chippendales dancer: "Not that I haven't been asked. 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. "It was unbelievable how hard she worked. It's not true. . Sometimes he acted as the butler, others as a general assistant. The reason it didn't last long was she didn't want them. Heffner is also claiming her right to inherit two trusts which Buck Duke created in 1917 and 1924, on the ground that she is his lineal descendant and grandchild. And he confirmed that he had been named an executor when Duke revised her 1987 will in March 1991. Claudia Heffner's Sister Has A Weird Story. She was very into the ritualistic part of Hawaiian dance. The last words were 'Stay in touch, Harry.' Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. (The hospital said that Bernard Lafferty was a patient from July 1 to July 14, 1987.). 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. She didn't like medicine in general. Meanwhile, Heffner is holed up on her Hawaiian ranch. She said, 'There was nothing to do on that train.' She also told me that Duke was much more taken with Ferdinand Marcos, who was gravely ill in Honolulu, than she was with his wife. Usually something came in the mail that she wanted to discuss, because Chandi was taking care of her financial affairs. This whole thing is such a shock." ", Nonetheless, Duke seemed increasingly pleased with Lafferty. It doesn't mean I'll go to bed with them.". The tobacco heiress fortune, one of the largest in U.S. history, has been the subject of complicated legal wrangling since she died at age 80 in 1993. . Now, please understand that I'm not accusing anyone of anything.". . On October 6, it was announced that Duke had made a donation of $1 million to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. [Chandi] is a monster. 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. . Doris loved animals. I said, 'Doris, get out of that house. In fact, it was Chandi Heffner who hired Bernard Lafferty for Doris Duke, in 1987. Doris Duke committed suicide. Chandi Heffner Duke passed away on 1940. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. After Bloom was fired, Protas was told the loan was being reviewed. That evening, I sent up dinner and Chandi came downstairs and said, 'Tom, Bernard just dropped the entire tray.' Heffner pleaded on his behalf and asked to speak to Duke, but Robinson told her that Duke was tired. . '", In 1947 she married again, but handed the groom a prenuptial agreement at the altar. Because just as Doris was taking me to the door, there was Chandi with the caretaker. Upon her father's death in 1925, the 13-year-old Doris Duke -- known as "The Richest Girl in the World" -- inherited several hundred million dollars. Although polo and horse jumping are her favorite equestrian activities, Chandi Heffner currently spends the majority of her time overseeing CDHIF USA and CDHIFI. Other people told me that Duke suspected Heffner of poisoning or drugging her, and that she credited Lafferty with saving her life. ", 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. And he would tell me, 'Miss Heffner's complaining.' 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. Her Newport artist pal Richard Banks said that that summer "Doris decided to do the whole social thing and she loved it. Duke was twice divorced and had no other children. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in. He was born on August 27, 1952, in Peekskill, New York, USA, as Paul Rubenfeld. Bernard Lafferty recently lunched in Manhattan with William Luers, president of the Metropolitan Museum, which was left $10 million by Duke. Chandi Heffner told me that Duke confided the truth to her: "It wasn't Cromwell's, and it wasn't her lover Alec's. ", 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. 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. "One hears all sorts of stories about how Rubi started in life, that he was Trujillo's sort of 'Press the doorbell, you answer the doorbell, and he went bang-bang.' And he called from a pay phone, and I felt so sorry for this guy, I said, 'Come to Somerville.' On the last day of the seminar, he spent the afternoon with Duke at Shangri La. Doris loved it. Guest's in Old Westbury: "She came by helicopter. "It was ironic that the man Doris loved the most was the greatest gigolo of all time," says Marina Cicogna. Paul and his family moved to Sarasota, Florida, when he was nine years old. Of course, they had a very attractive life. She told me that her parents did not approve of her lifestyle, and that they'd cut her off from everything. "Her legs were almost starting to atrophy from lack of exercise." In a so-called "galimony" lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Somerville, N.J., where the heiress lives several months of the year at her 5,000-acre compound known as Duke Farms, Heffner claims she is entitled to compensation from Duke, who abruptly broke off their live-in relationship in 1991. "They did not meet in dance class," he insists. "Both of them greeted us at the door. Duke." 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.". 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. Her stage name was Sahda. 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." WHAT'S POPULAR TODAY. And the whispers about Duke's last years continue. 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. Tom Ford. But she had a dramatic change in her lifeand it was weird. 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. "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." A cult member of Hare Krishna, Chandi went to Hawaii in the late 1980s and met with a billionaire, Doris Duke, a billionaire tobacco heiress, philanthropist, art collector, horticulturist, and socialite. He also said he had worked on and off for Peggy Lee for 10 years. She continued to give him money, and friends say that their sexual relationship never really ended. And then Chandi said something that took me aback: 'Bobby, I can't understand why you have a friend like that and yet you're struggling to have a dance publication. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. He always seemed to be there whenever she needed him. 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