He's a sweet human being, and he seemed to be honest and fiercely defensive of Doris. Heffner told me she had left "the farm community" and was living with Gordon Damon, a real-estate agent whose house was near Duke's Diamond Head estate. They all of a sudden just totally cut me off, and I can't believe that was Doris. It happened on a train to California. 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. "There was a rumor that she did it deliberately. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 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.' On October 6, it was announced that Duke had made a donation of $1 million to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. 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. Sources at Duke's estates, however, portrayed Heffner in a different light. This went on almost every meal. 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. She was alarmingly fragile." Chandi Duke Heffner, age 60s, lives in Kamuela, HI. 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. Cary W. Goldstein, Burns lawyer, says Heffner Duke broke ``a very explicit deal she had with Burns, although it was never written down. To this day he maintains, "A lot of injustice was done to me. Born on 1940 to James Henry Roberts Cromwell and Doris Duke. So we went into the room, and Bernard was buck naked, bent over a chair, passed out. "He was doing a lot of embroidery work for Doris. Demopoulos wasn't the only one to notice a change in Duke's attitude after Heffner was out of her life. They named them Princess and Baby. We would go into the kitchen, just the four of us. ", "I was not involved. And that's how the relationship evolved. "Chandi works very hard for Doris. He named both his private Pullman car and his 80-foot yacht after her, and surrounded her with bodyguards. You felt that she was going to break. Duke left most of her money to charity and named her butler, Bernard Lafferty, co-executor of the estate. Meanwhile, Bernard said he wasn't feeling well and went back up to his room. James Burns, 32, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, claimed Chandi Gail Heffner Duke owes him half of the $66 million she was awarded after Duke die in 1988. Why doesn't she help you?' I think this was the steroid thing happening. He received nothing. 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. 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 think somebody is trying to kill me.". How do we get rid of her? He was very good at repairing old costumes and fabric. "It was ironic that the man Doris loved the most was the greatest gigolo of all time," says Marina Cicogna. In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. . She was very intelligent and very together. She wasn't sure if she wanted to have a baby, but she said by the third month an incredible mother instinct took over. Duke, who had managed to avoid almost all publicity since the Tirella scandal, stunned the world in November 1988 by putting up the $5 million bail for Imelda Marcos, whom the U.S. government had charged with racketeering. Phyllis Saretta says, "Chandi told me that her sister had a butler and a chauffeur and the whole thing. . Over the next few years, she bought almost an entire neighborhood of dilapidated 17th- and 18th-century houses, restored them, and rented them to town residents. And Nicolas first cousin on her fathers side is the great New York broadcaster and filmmaker Perri Peltz, whose father was Nelsons older brother. He could barely speak.". 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. and I finally quit just before Labor Day. and as we were leaving they exchanged telephone numbers. Today, the museum features objects, furniture, and art selected, arranged, and used by Doris to make Rough Point a home. "We kept it to ourselves for months, until around July 1990. . But she got up again, and we did our steps. Seemed. If I were Victoria Beckham, I wouldnt count on a big wedding present. We would hear it, and we would just joke about it. They had done the whole kitchen togetherthe carpentry, everything. . She didn't like medicine in general. ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. The two women developed a deep bond almost instantly. And then eventually somebody else dropped back. All; Titles; TV Episodes; Celebs; Companies; Keywords; "I couldn't quite keep up, so I was in the back of the class. "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. There was a gradual onset of a depressed relationship between Doris and Chandi, starting about the middle of 1990 and going progressively downhill. 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. . I never heard from Doris again and I could never reach her again. 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 Newport, she loved going to the jazz festival, and then one would sometimes have dinner in that huge house with the ferocious dogs snarling behind the gates. It's not true. The gate had obviously been left open. Richard Banks called Lafferty the next day. Immediately prior to going to work for Duke, he was employed by Heffner's sister Claudia and her husband, Nelson Peltz, one of the leading takeover tycoons of the 80s. . You're Arden. '" Burns said that he was also training Lafferty, to help him lose his paunch. According to Heffner, Duke suffered heart palpitations in Moscow and was afraid to be alone, so for the rest of the trip they shared hotel rooms. When he died in a car crash in 1965, she took to her bed for two days. This is a short video of an imaginary conversation between tobacco heiress Doris Duke and her adopted daughter Chandi Heffner, whom she met in a dance class . '", In 1947 she married again, but handed the groom a prenuptial agreement at the altar. 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. The legal challenges flooded in, in a queue headed by Chandi Heffner (a grown woman adopted, then disowned, by Duke), a doctor named as executor in a previous will and three former Duke servants. 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." Today, Chandi lives on a palatial farm in. On April 5, 1993, one week after Heffner had sued her, Duke signed her last will, cutting off her adopted daughter in brutally explicit terms: I am extremely troubled by the realization that Chandi Heffner may use my 1988 adoption of her to attempt to benefit financially under the terms of either of the trusts created by my father. (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. That's not the Doris I knew. The last words were 'Stay in touch, Harry.' ", James Cromwell maintained that it was not his child, and friends assumed that it was Cunningham-Reid's. Phyllis Saretta told me that Duke performed with the Farrah company four or five times, wearing a long black wig. Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes. Duke was twice divorced and had no other children. ChatGPT who? There was a little alcove under the stairs, and the food would be nice but ordinary. It doesn't mean I'll go to bed with them.". Duke may have been infatuated, but friends of Tirella's told me that he was unabashedly gay. ", Thomas Rybak maintains, "I personally believe that Chandi was pushed out by Bernard. The press decided she had become an eccentric recluse. She has completely wired the small house on her own, and she boards horses and cows for neighbors for $15 a head per month. Who can help student-athletes cash in? . As a young girl, she wrote him love notes, which he pored over again and again. 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. . Her second husband, Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, fared only slightly better: His divorce settlement was estimated at $1 million. In fact, it was Chandi Heffner who hired Bernard Lafferty for Doris Duke, in 1987. It was clear that something adverse was going on in the latter part of 1990 in Hawaii. "Sometimes people are attracted to the thing they fear the most.". 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. This gives her the air of philanthropy. . ") Heffner told me that "even back in high school I began kind of a quest to see if there was more to life," and that after a trip around the world, she ended up in Hawaii, meditating, surfing, and exercising polo ponies. . The balance is due Wednesday. 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. On New Year's Day 1964, she ordered him out, and he retaliated by suing her, claiming that they had been secretly married. This Grand Marnier was so old the labels had been written by hand. Call your pilot tonight and leave immediately and go to Los Angeles and get checked up.' And the whispers about Duke's last years continue. When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. "There were clear indications of a growing trust, affection, and devotion between them. . "I don't think you're supposed to use alcohol with steroids, and she was drinking sherry in the evenings." A stingy southern belle, Nanaline Holt Inman was a widow with one son when she married Buck Duke in 1907. Usually something came in the mail that she wanted to discuss, because Chandi was taking care of her financial affairs. 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. 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. 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. We were joking around, because we both had bad knees. 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.' 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. ", Glenn Scott Greenhouse, the president of the Pavillion Agency, confirmed that Lafferty's drinking became an issue at the Peltzes'. ", Burns began working out with Duke on a regular basis. "Ferencz said, 'We had a butler who was fired. 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. Learn how your comment data is processed. Then one day in June, Miss Duke called me and said, 'Thomas, have you seen Bernard? 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. Heffner also said that Duke confided that she thought her mother had wanted to abort her. ", Rybak says that Lafferty got off to a good start at Duke Farms. ", Almost every friend of Duke's I talked to, including her many homosexual friends, told me that she had always been an avid heterosexual. The couple lived together from 1990 until 1993. Mahn soon left, and in 1987 co-authored Daddy's Duchess: The Unauthorized Biography of Doris Duke. Chandi called Steve Levyhe did security for Doristo find out what to do. 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. ", 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. "Miss Duke said to me, 'I think I may have been drugged. One afternoon in February, the architect John Warnecke went to Shangri La for tea. He also said he had worked on and off for Peggy Lee for 10 years. 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. 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. ". 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. (1940 - 1940) Photos: 19. ", Nonetheless, Duke seemed increasingly pleased with Lafferty. Each evening she would return to Duke Farms or her Manhattan apartment in time for dinner alone on a tray. They maintained a familial relationship until 1990 when Doris Duke disinherited Heffner. Chandi lives on the horse farm now and operates a very modest charity called the CDH Foundation, with total assets of $ 2 million. Doris Duke met Chandi Heffner in 1985 and felt a strong maternal connection to Her. 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. ", She had already been planning to divorce Cromwell, but he apparently demanded a $7 million settlement. ", In late 1990, he said, "I detected a growing unhappiness on Doris's part. This whole thing is such a shock." "We concentrated on her leg-muscle group," he said. 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. "It was unbelievable how hard she worked. Enzo Natale says, "Chandi had accused me of trying to rape her in Honolulu. I said, 'Doris, get out of that house. Everything good I could say about Bernard, I do. I thought she was really nice, genuine.". It was perhaps her last romantic affair, and in some respects foreshadowed her relationship with Chandi Heffner. "Both of them greeted us at the door. "She looked great," Warnecke says. He has an alcohol problem, but he's a basically good person. 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. There was a deadly side to Doris. In 1969, socialite C. Z. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. 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." The rest of the house was dark, which was odd. "I got a call from my sister's major-domo, Ferencz Soltesz," said Heffner, who had been living with Duke for two years at that point. Do you think you could help him out?' "She designed those houses and she saw to every color," says Newport artist Richard Banks. 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. 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. One night at dinner, Heffner told me, "Doris said to me, 'You're my daughter reincarnated. Heffner has a sister named Charlene Gail Heffner aka Chandi Duke Heffner. 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. Were there . 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. In Doris's case, she had done that. For reasons I don't understand, a curtain seemed to come down. She was very into the ritualistic part of Hawaiian dance. We'll travel together. She was a cool lady. In the proceedings, Heffner formally renounced her natural parents, certified that she was not consenting to be adopted out of financial considerations, and legally changed her name from Charlene Gail Heffner to Chandi Duke Heffner. There's no question that Bernard was more than just a butler. When Duke was 27 years old, she delivered a premature baby daughter who died just 24 hours after being born. "She got us our first booking, in that black church in New Jersey. Mercedes Bass remembered Duke's coming for tea at the Carlyle Hotel a year or so earlier and introducing Heffner as "my niece." 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. Then the U.S. government blindsided it, Column: Uber and Lyfts deactivation policy is dehumanizing and unfair. One night in August, Banks dined alone with Duke at Rough Point. The only times I saw Doris really relaxed were these few times in Beverly Hills.". Heffner has a sister, Charlene Gail Heffner who goes by the name Chandi Duke Heffner. I remember when I read his resume, I thought, This man has really been through it. 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.". The Untold Truth of Stephen Hawking's Son - Ti. In later years she did have problems with her hearing and with her legs, but nothing major. Although Duke was determined to produce his own heir, Nanaline was as surprised as everyone else when she became pregnant at the age of 42, and she always favored her son, Walker Inman, over Doris. All. Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. "Doris was seeing a Japanese therapist for her knee problems . On rare occasions I got Bernard. Doris seemed very, very happy. "He was devastated. It was at that juncture, Heffner claims, that Duke made the oral promise that is the basis of her breach-of-contract suit. I fumbled through an introduction. Bernard Lafferty recently lunched in Manhattan with William Luers, president of the Metropolitan Museum, which was left $10 million by Duke. After giving the matter prolonged and serious consideration, I am convinced that I should not have adopted Chandi Heffner. 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. once a week wherever we were. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. Heffner spent almost six months on and off in two Honolulu hospitals, because she also developed a heart problem. (Duke had a similar fascination with spiritualism: she gave $100,000 to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 60s; fell under the spell of Norbu Chen, a pseudo-Tibetan lama, in the 70s; and left $500,000 to the Self-Realization Fellowship.). She formally adopted Heffner in 1988. Peltz, a Michael Milken protg, was beginning his rise to the top of the junk-bond heap; he would soon take over Triangle Industries, then National Can and American Can, and be worth $400 million by 1989. . ", In February, a few weeks after Protas returned to New York with Graham, he received a phone call from Duke at three in the morning. Her telephone was not listed in the Los Angeles area. We wouldn't sit in the main dining room. I feel unsure of myself physically. You can live in the manner that I live and have this lifestyle. 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. Last year she gave. . She was so alive. It must end, Drugmaker Eli Lilly to slash insulin prices, Stocks slip as stubborn inflation raises rate expectations, TikTok to set default daily time limit of 60 minutes for minors, Column: While workers struggled during the pandemic, CEO pay went up, up, up, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? ", 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. Ferencz Soltesz [the Peltzes' majordomo] told me he's an excellent butler so long as you keep him off the bottle. After Tirella's death, she seemed consumed with the idea of actually becoming a performer. Youth," says Phyllis Saretta, an instructor with the Ibrahim Farrah Near East Dance Group, which Duke funded and danced with in the early 1970s. This was at 11 in the morning. 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. Chandi Duke Heffner Net Worth Chandi Duke Heffner Net Worth 2022, Age, Height, Relationships, Married, Dating, Family, Wiki Biography. And he confirmed that he had been named an executor when Duke revised her 1987 will in March 1991. It's so hard for me still, so hard." She really had a feeling for him, and expressed annoyance with Imelda. ", Oatsie Charles had a one-word explanation: "Loneliness. Heffner also claims she saved the heiress's life on more than one occasion: once when Duke collapsed at her Newport estate in a "pool of blood," and a second time when Heffner recalls diving into the freezing Atlantic to save Duke from drowning. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in 1988, Duke left control of the bulk of her fortune to Bernard Lafferty, her butler of six years. "It was really sad," Heffner said, "because Martha arrived and Doris wouldn't go see her. I thought she'd live to 90 or 100. Duke Kahanamoku went in after her and saved her. 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. Heffner was in New York for a week, visiting her sister Claudia, who had married Nelson Peltz in 1980. It was a really loving daughter-mother relationship. She had episodes of pneumonia, she had clots in her veins, and some of those clots may have traveled to her lungs. In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. He also instilled in her an almost reflexive inability to trust people. Quite suddenly, early in 1991, Doris called me in distress from Hawaii and said that she was leaving in an urgent way for California and she had become fearful of Chandi. Chandi Heffner established her organization on a small scale by undertaking humanitarian work in the field. Doris said, 'Do you have time for a drink?' Nelson Peltz is financing Chandi Heffner's legal battle. 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. 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. 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. "Not at all. 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. If someone crossed them, they just put them out of their lives. 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. 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. 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