Only one other trustee was named in the will, Marion Oates Charles, Duke's longtime summer neighbor in Newport, Rhode Island. I almost feel . "She looked great," Warnecke says. 'I loved her so much. About Heffner's sister. 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. And that's how the relationship evolved. Chandi got a couple of the housemen, and they brought him to the Somerville hospital." One evening Steve Levy said that Miss Duke wanted him to administer a urine test on me. Doris seemed very, very happy. If anyone has news on Chandi from the far reaches of Hawaii, drop us a line at showbiz411@gmail.com. "He was doing a lot of embroidery work for Doris. One night at dinner, Heffner told me, "Doris said to me, 'You're my daughter reincarnated. The only times I saw Doris really relaxed were these few times in Beverly Hills.". Heffner had asked him to have dinner with her and Gordon Damon, and he had told her to pick him up at Duke's front gate. On October 6, it was announced that Duke had made a donation of $1 million to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. Two years later she bought Falcon's Lair, the Beverly Hills house where Rudolph Valentino once lived. Chandi lives on the horse farm now and operates a very modest charity called the CDH Foundation, with total assets of $ 2 million. ", Burns began working out with Duke on a regular basis. She really had a feeling for him, and expressed annoyance with Imelda. "Whenever she walked into your room, she made the room," recalls Mercedes Bass. "Chandi loved animals. . 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. "We discussed cremation, and she said, 'Never, never, ever let anyone cremate me.' "She's an unusually intelligent person: perceptive, articulate, well-read, culturally alive. This was not a frivolous woman, either. For Industry Professionals. While Lafferty was hospitalized, Rybak says, "Doris said to me, 'Tom, we are going to leave this up to you. Doris loved it. She told me that her parents did not approve of her lifestyle, and that they'd cut her off from everything. Her mother was another story. Some questioned Reubens sexuality at the time until in 1989 when Reubens engaged in a "mock wedding" with Chandi Heffner, the adopted daughter of tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Like Heffner, Amar quickly became involved in the running of Duke's houses, business affairs, and charities. She said, 'There was nothing to do on that train.' I turned and saw her on the floor. [Chandi] is a monster. According to the Mansfield biography, Cromwell asked her on their sexless wedding night what his annual income from her would be. That was a going-out-of-your-way gesture." The billionaire believed that Chandi was the reincarnation of her dead kid. Dukes father, James Buchanan Duke, founded American Tobacco Co. Heffner, 42, was adopted by Duke in 1988, but after the two had a falling out, Duke took Heffner out of the will. I came back clean as a whistle. 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. Nicolas mother, Claudia, has a sister we havent forgotten about. 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. 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. Last year she gave $40,000 to help people in India, $45,000 to Bronx Veterans Medical Research, and $2000 to the Hawaii Saddle Club. She was having a real whirl." and I finally quit just before Labor Day. You can live in the manner that I live and have this lifestyle. 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. He also hoped she would finance his 1940 campaign for U.S. senator from New Jersey; instead, she helped ruin his political career by snubbing Eleanor Roosevelt and putting private detectives on him to collect evidence of his extramarital affairs. Medical Center last summer. Moreover, Heffner's legal complaint against Duke states: Doris . ", The day after the adoption, the economist Woody Brock went to lunch at Duke Farms with Duke's New Jersey neighbor Jane Engelhard. I remember that the captain of the helicopter was very worried and wanted her to leave early. Talent. We used to joke that she'd outlive me. How do we get rid of her? I never heard from Doris again and I could never reach her again. The next day I got a phone call from Doris to thank me. Duke last made news in 1988, when she posted the $5.3 million bail for her close friend Imelda Marcos, the former Philippines First Lady. Enzo Natale says, "Chandi had accused me of trying to rape her in Honolulu. And the person who could best illuminate Doris Duke's declining days, Bernard Lafferty, refused to talk to me. "Sometimes people are attracted to the thing they fear the most.". Chandi was into Eastern cultures and all that stuff, and so was Doris. She had had several leg operations, after a riding accident, but she participated in the seminar. "It's very important that Doris has done this," he told me at the time. Her second husband, Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, fared only slightly better: His divorce settlement was estimated at $1 million. Then [Franco and I] didn't see Doris anymore. "She designed those houses and she saw to every color," says Newport artist Richard Banks. Duke died at age 80 in 1988, leaving a hotly contested $1.5 billion estate. It was 1982, and Heffner was taking a class at Farrah's studio near Times Square. I was constantly arguing with Bernard . She got right up like a trouper and fell right down again. WHAT'S POPULAR TODAY. 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. Heffner has a sister named Charlene Gail Heffner aka Chandi Duke Heffner. "There was a rumor that she did it deliberately. Her stage name was Sahda. Community. One night in August, Banks dined alone with Duke at Rough Point. You don't have to go back. She formally adopted Heffner in 1988. If I were Victoria Beckham, I wouldnt count on a big wedding present. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in. During this period, Duke also plunged into three large-scale public projects. On an employment application Lafferty filled out for the Pavillion Agency in New York in September 1986, he said he had worked at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia from 1972 to 1983 and at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City from 1983 to 1985. A few hours later, when Heffner returned from a show-jumping lesson, she was informed that Doris had flown to Los Angeles. Chandi Heffner was "planted" on Doris Duke by Imelda Marcos. We were joking around, because we both had bad knees. It happened on a train to California. 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." . But theyve hit a snag, Review: A reimagined Secret Garden fails to flower anew at the Ahmanson Theatre, Elizabeth Holmes cites her new baby as a reason she should avoid prison for Theranos scam. . ), HBOs Hit Show The Last of Us Finally Vaults Over 1 Million Viewers on Main Channel. Menu. ", When I asked Chandi Heffner about the widespread rumors that she and Duke were lovers, she laughed and said, "Oh, right, I've heard that. ''Doris and I had been in the Gobi Desert together, and we found out they were becoming a threatened species." She had received another $10 million of her inheritance in 1937, and would receive at least as much in 1942. This gives her the air of philanthropy. The 1987 will had designated Heffner executor. 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. Wait til the Beckhams Meet the Parents: Nicola Peltzs Aunt Inherited $65 Mil from Doris Duke in Infamous Adoption, Movie Release August Schedule for "Tenet," "Mulan" Will Be Scuttled as Gov. Duke turned up at the Ritz in Paris that October walking with a cane. Then one day in June, Miss Duke called me and said, 'Thomas, have you seen Bernard? She has completely wired the small house on her own, and she boards horses and cows for neighbors for $15 a head per month. ", Thomas Rybak maintains, "I personally believe that Chandi was pushed out by Bernard. I suppose it was Doris's fault for never talking about what she did.". ". Chandi sued Duke's estate. This was the fifth time that Duke had rewritten or revised her will since Heffner's banishment 26 months earlier. Finally, one of her new lawyers, Mr. Doyle, got it back on track. 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. That led to pneumonia and she couldn't eat and it was on and off, on and off, for months.". She grew up near Towson, an upper-middle-class suburb of Baltimore, and graduated from Notre Dame Prep, a private Catholic girls' school, in 1971. Duke believed that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden. . Now, please understand that I'm not accusing anyone of anything.". I called the California home and the other sites many times. We would go into the kitchen, just the four of us. Duke Kahanamoku went in after her and saved her. Then the U.S. government blindsided it, Column: Uber and Lyfts deactivation policy is dehumanizing and unfair. He felt deeply grateful to Doris, as I did.". "She out-Leona Helmsleyed Leona Helmsley," Duffy said of Heffner. ". ), 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. ", Dr. Demopoulos told me, "I spoke to her in early January. 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. On rare occasions I got Bernard. "We kept it to ourselves for months, until around July 1990. . She was ahead of her time. (Marcos was eventually acquitted, and returned to the Philippines.). 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. Chandi, which means "female energy personified" in Sanskrit, was born Charlene Heffner in Baltimore on August 26, 1953, the eldest of three daughters of William Heffner, a lawyer, and his wife, "Bunny," a nurse. In 1945, Duke began a short-lived career as a foreign correspondent for the International News Service, reporting from different cities across the war-ravaged Europe. He named both his private Pullman car and his 80-foot yacht after her, and surrounded her with bodyguards. Until Doris Duke's death, this would be her principal residence. But she got up again, and we did our steps. Although she was constantly compared to Hutton from the time they both had fairy-tale coming-out parties the year after the stock market crashed, Duke always hated the comparison to the much-married Woolworth heiress, who died penniless. One of Chandi's doctors thought that pregnancy might help her conditions, and Chandi was discussing this with Doris one evening in Newport while I was sitting there. I asked Doris and she said, 'Yeah, it's fine.' 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. We wouldn't sit in the main dining room. (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 had several indiscreet affairs of her own, with Errol Flynn, Hawaiian swimming champion Duke Kahanamoku, and British M.P. One afternoon in February, the architect John Warnecke went to Shangri La for tea. ", A few days before I interviewed Heffner, an item had appeared in Cindy Adams's gossip column: Robert Ibrahim Farrah, an instructor of Middle Eastern dance, who says he introduced Heffner to Duke in 1984, claimed that Duke had come to fear Heffner. ", Like many of her friends, Protas is unclear about when Duke went into the hospital for the operations on her knees, or when she came out. No wills! . Denise Hale recalls meeting Eduardo Tirella on the set of The Sandpiper, which was directed by her then husband, Vincente Minnelli, and having several dinners at Falcon's Lair. . ", 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. Learn how your comment data is processed. It wasn't until the following winter, however, Burns told me, that he became romantically involved with Heffner. 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. Musks master plan for Tesla is built around sustainable energy economy, What to expect from Elon Musks third master Tesla plan, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. "Most of them didn't want to leave. Meanwhile, Heffner is holed up on her Hawaiian ranch. 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. I hired him to come out [to Los Angeles] and work for me, to kind of be my majordomo here. The power that this will gives Bernard Lafferty is "awesome," says one attorney. 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. He received nothing. Apparently, the warm weather had had a good effect. Heffner was also responsible for hiring a new accountant, Irwin Bloom, and a security consultant, Steven Levy, both of whom had worked for Nelson Peltz. In 1985, she met Chandi Heffner, a 32-year-old Hari Krishna devotee. The next day Duke's lawyer called Heffner again and informed her that Duke wanted her out, too. 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. His mother was a teacher, while his father fought as a pilot during WWII. "Both of them greeted us at the door. According to the 1993 Forbes Four Hundred list, Doris Duke was the 18th-richest woman in America, not far behind cosmetics billionairess Este Lauder. The Untold Truth of Stephen Hawking's Son - Ti. He also said that she had lent $600,000 for his company, Health Maintenance Programs, Inc., in 1989; the loan is to be converted into stock, according to the will. In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. 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.". ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. 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 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. Her Newport artist pal Richard Banks said that that summer "Doris decided to do the whole social thing and she loved it. Let them kill each other over it.' You're Arden. '" 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. Heffner takes credit for everything from improving the dairy herd at Duke Farms to arranging the sale of Duke's gold deposits in Switzerland. Movies. Her lawyer, David Keyko, said yesterday that in. . 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. We would hear it, and we would just joke about it. 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. They talked constantly, and Nelson and Claudia used to go to lunches quite often with Chandi and Doris. The reason it didn't last long was she didn't want them. His breath almost knocked me off my feet.' ", 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. "It was unbelievable how hard she worked. "He was so attentive," Banks says. . ") 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. ", Rybak says that Lafferty got off to a good start at Duke Farms. When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. A dedicated philanthropist, Chandi Heffner is the founder and President of CDHIFI a charitable foundation that sponsors medical, veterinary and humanitarian assistance to rural regions around the . They all of a sudden just totally cut me off, and I can't believe that was Doris. On the last day of the seminar, he spent the afternoon with Duke at Shangri La. She's a very nice girl, really first-rate, and she will keep Doris's foundation going in the futureyou know, not a law firm but a human being. . 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 . 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. Do you think you could help him out?' Banks never saw her again. She was contemplating having knee replacements. 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