", 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. 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. She really had a feeling for him, and expressed annoyance with Imelda. A few hours later, when Heffner returned from a show-jumping lesson, she was informed that Doris had flown to Los Angeles. And all of a sudden I started hearing, 'The food is cold.' . ", Almost every friend of Duke's I talked to, including her many homosexual friends, told me that she had always been an avid heterosexual. So we went into the room, and Bernard was buck naked, bent over a chair, passed out. According to financial accounts shes posted on her website, she has about $700,000 parked in CDH to help India. The only times I saw Doris really relaxed were these few times in Beverly Hills.". And then he was going to A.A., and he did very well in A.A., as far as I know. . Duke may have been infatuated, but friends of Tirella's told me that he was unabashedly gay. 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 was going to A. The reason it didn't last long was she didn't want them. In June 1985, Duke and Heffner traveled to Russia together. He has an alcohol problem, but he's a basically good person. 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. I suppose it was Doris's fault for never talking about what she did.". Now, please understand that I'm not accusing anyone of anything.". Duke turned up at the Ritz in Paris that October walking with a cane. Chandi got a couple of the housemen, and they brought him to the Somerville hospital." I was constantly arguing with Bernard . His family all died, and he had one remaining relative, in Philadelphia. No wills! 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. She was ahead of her time. For some reason, Doris actually came to believe that Chandi. She wasn't Barbara Hutton," says Marina Cicogna, who was a friend of both heiresses. 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.". She continued to give him money, and friends say that their sexual relationship never really ended. I remember when I read his resume, I thought, This man has really been through it. "She was told she has a pretty good case," the family member said. Only one other trustee was named in the will, Marion Oates Charles, Duke's longtime summer neighbor in Newport, Rhode Island. 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. In return, Heffner claims, the twice-divorced Duke promised to "take care" of Heffner for the rest of her life. On the last day of the seminar, he spent the afternoon with Duke at Shangri La. She never married again, and from then on the men in her life, whether they were lovers or not, were considerably younger and came from the creative world. ", Heffner blamed Duke's altered feelings on the steroids she claims Duke was taking then. 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 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. 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 . Heffner pleaded on his behalf and asked to speak to Duke, but Robinson told her that Duke was tired. They maintained a familial relationship until 1990 when Doris Duke disinherited Heffner. "She got baby doses for a few weeks and that was it. "Darling, the girl is out the door without a cent," Franco Rossellini trilled to a friend. I remember that the captain of the helicopter was very worried and wanted her to leave early. ", According to Farrah, Heffner never actually took part in a dance class, because her leg was in a cast. 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. 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. But by the following summer she was noticeably declining again. The gossip at Mortimer's was that Duke was furious with him for talking to Stephanie Mansfield. I feel unsure of myself physically. Heffner was in New York for a week, visiting her sister Claudia, who had married Nelson Peltz in 1980. 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. On New Year's Day 1964, she ordered him out, and he retaliated by suing her, claiming that they had been secretly married. When Doris was only 14, she successfully sued her mother to stop her from selling Duke Farms, the estate her father had created out of New Jersey flatlands, including a 30-room mansion with an indoor pool and indoor tennis courts, artificial lakes, and man-made hillocks. . Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our. (We covered the story in Fame magazine in 1990, and New York magazine did it again in 1993.). Chandi Heffner is 69 years old today because Chandi's birthday is on 08/26/1953. We took him to Newport. ", Heffner denies that she had had any previous association with Imelda Marcos. The gate had obviously been left open. 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. He came over here, and she died. . "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." 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. You felt that she was going to break. . WHAT'S POPULAR TODAY. It's not true. After giving the matter prolonged and serious consideration, I am convinced that I should not have adopted Chandi Heffner. ", After Thanksgiving, as she had for five decades, Duke left for Hawaii. We'll have a great life together. "He had done her hair in a pageboy, and she looked so pretty, though she was painfully thin." You can live in the manner that I live and have this lifestyle. Who can help student-athletes cash in? Miss Duke lives in a walled 2,700-acre estate in Hillsborough, and rarely attracted . "He seemed depressed, and Doris thought it would give him more self-esteem. Doris told Chandi that she was happy about her having a man in her life. Steve comes about four, and he and I go up to Bernard's room. Shortly after Duke's 80th birthday, in November, Nelson Seabra saw her at C. Z. I have come to the realization that her primary motive was financial gain. She was taking so many pills at the end and, knowingly or not, killed herself. ChatGPT who? Tom Ford. Cary W. Goldstein, Burns lawyer, says Heffner Duke broke ``a very explicit deal she had with Burns, although it was never written down. According to the Mansfield biography, Cromwell asked her on their sexless wedding night what his annual income from her would be. "It was ironic that the man Doris loved the most was the greatest gigolo of all time," says Marina Cicogna. He had been recommended by Ron Oldenburg, a Honolulu lawyer who handled immigration matters for the employees of both Doris Duke and Imelda Marcos, and hired as a bodyguard for Heffner when she was hospitalized for severe sinusitis in February 1989. ", 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. ", 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. He also instilled in her an almost reflexive inability to trust people. ", Nonetheless, Duke seemed increasingly pleased with Lafferty. Chandi Duke Heffner Net Worth Chandi Duke Heffner Net Worth 2022, Age, Height, Relationships, Married, Dating, Family, Wiki Biography. That's not the Doris I knew. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. He received nothing. Id love to be a fly on the wall when David and Victoria Beckham meet their sons fiancees family. 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. . By 1963 she was having Castro trailed by a private investigator. He had also treated Chandi Heffner, and counted both women as friends. . Records: 123. . It would come back. 'I loved her so much. "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. 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. Chandi Heffner was "planted" on Doris Duke by Imelda Marcos. Call your pilot tonight and leave immediately and go to Los Angeles and get checked up.' She was contemplating having knee replacements. Community. "At the beginning of 1991, she placed an increasing reliance on me and Bernard," Demopoulos told me. . Nicola has an eclectic family, worthy of a Robert Altman movie a la A Wedding. On the plus side, theres the money. Chandi lives on the horse farm now and operates a very modest charity called the CDH Foundation, with total assets of $ 2 million. . 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. Duke died at age 80 in 1988, leaving a hotly contested $1.5 billion estate. 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. I tried repeatedly to get in contact with her. '", Heffner dismissed such charges, and also told me that one day during the "steroid" period Duke had called her into her bedroom and said, "I think somebody is putting poison in my food. One of those servants was the future executor of Doris Duke's estate. With a love for all living things, Ms. Heffner maintains a U.S. ranch that takes in rescued horses, birds, donkeys, pigs, and many other animals. . 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. Her former physician, Dr. Harry Demopoulos, is seeking to unseat Lafferty as co-executor. "We discussed cremation, and she said, 'Never, never, ever let anyone cremate me.' Chandi Heffner told me that Duke confided the truth to her: "It wasn't Cromwell's, and it wasn't her lover Alec's. 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. ", Dr. Demopoulos told me, "I spoke to her in early January. And when she left, that adverse thing ceased. 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. Keyko said that $800,000 was paid to Heffner on Friday. In fact, it was Chandi Heffner who hired Bernard Lafferty for Doris Duke, in 1987. . Duke was spending the spring, as usual, at her 2,700-acre Duke Farms, in Somerville, New Jersey. Heffner Duke, adopted in 1988 when she was 38 and the heiress was in her 70s, could not be reached for comment. She was like a flower child, even though the era was over. Nelson Seabra told me, "A very close friend of Doris's said that she committed suicide. Jane Engelhard sat next to the bodyguard, and you should have seen her face. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. '", In 1947 she married again, but handed the groom a prenuptial agreement at the altar. Despite the negative publicity, she fought her husband in the courts for five years, until he gave in. Then the U.S. government blindsided it, Column: Uber and Lyfts deactivation policy is dehumanizing and unfair. Heres a description of Chandi (seen in the picture here on the right, with Duke and Imelda Marcos) from her website. Today, Chandi lives on a palatial farm in. 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. 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.' Both Heffner and her lawyers emphatically deny that Nelson Peltz is financing Heffner's legal efforts. Chandi said, 'But where do I find a man?' He went to Sarasota High School. 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. "When we were together," Heffner continued, "when things were really great, Doris was in wonderful shape. . Learn how your comment data is processed. He wanted me out of there. In the morning, Bernard didn't come down until 11:30, and he was a mess. "We concentrated on her leg-muscle group," he said. And she was so frail. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? I said, 'Sure, have him call me.' 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. 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. "She got us our first booking, in that black church in New Jersey. Duke died last October, leaving an estate reported to be between $750 million and $1.3 billion and lengthy obituaries which focused on her husbands and lovers, her houses in New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Hawaii, her collections of Oriental and Islamic art, her $5 million bailout of Imelda Marcos, and her perplexing relationship with Chandi Heffner. Heffner spent almost six months on and off in two Honolulu hospitals, because she also developed a heart problem. 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. Chandi sued Dukes estate and wound up inheriting $65 million. Paul and his family moved to Sarasota, Florida, when he was nine years old. "Chandi loved animals. Under the terms approved by Surrogate Renee Roth on Thursday, Chandi Gail Heffner will receive $800,000 by Monday and $65 million on Wednesday. When I go I'll be eaten by the sharks.". And Nicolas first cousin on her fathers side is the great New York broadcaster and filmmaker Perri Peltz, whose father was Nelsons older brother. 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.". Duke." This went on almost every meal. She was so alive. ", 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. And he would tell me, 'Miss Heffner's complaining.' Ferencz Soltesz [the Peltzes' majordomo] told me he's an excellent butler so long as you keep him off the bottle. 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. Heffner Duke, adopted in 1988 when she was 38 and the heiress was in her 70s, could not be reached for comment. This was the fifth time that Duke had rewritten or revised her will since Heffner's banishment 26 months earlier. 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. "She wasn't just one of those rich women who said, 'Restore me 60 houses.' Demopoulos said that Duke had mentioned her suspicions that she was being poisoned. 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. Franco Rossellini assured everyone that he was all for it. "People always think that if you can have 200 people to dine at home without moving the chairs around and you don't, you must be very sad," says Claus von Blow. Today, the museum features objects, furniture, and art selected, arranged, and used by Doris to make Rough Point a home. And he called from a pay phone, and I felt so sorry for this guy, I said, 'Come to Somerville.' 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. She clapped her hands in glee. ", Duke gave him a house in Paris for a wedding gift, and a plane before their divorce one year later. "Doris did this more for the president. We'll travel together. It wasn't until the following winter, however, Burns told me, that he became romantically involved with Heffner. It was perhaps her last romantic affair, and in some respects foreshadowed her relationship with Chandi Heffner. "She forgave Rubi everything," says Reinaldo Herrera, even his subsequent marriage to Barbara Hutton. This was at 11 in the morning. 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. And so I decidedthe biggest mistake of my 41 yearsto give this son of a bitch a second chance . 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 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. I would have to reheat it. 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.' We wouldn't sit in the main dining room. 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. The next morning, the day after Valentine's Day, James Burns remembers, Duke told Heffner she had a dentist's appointment and left the house with Bernard Lafferty. In any case, their friendship ended in tragedy that October, when Duke ran him over as he was opening the gate of Rough Point. After Bloom was fired, Protas was told the loan was being reviewed. I've talked to bankers who said she knew where every last nickel was. ", In late 1990, he said, "I detected a growing unhappiness on Doris's part. 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. Heffner also said that Duke confided that she thought her mother had wanted to abort her. 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? I knew from the beginning she was a son of a bitch." Both Duke and Heffner served as close advisers to Marcos during her trial for fraud and racketeering. (Other sources say the meeting took place in 1985.) Nelson Peltz is financing Chandi Heffner's legal battle. 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. I'll go to dinner with them. It will be wonderful.' Farrah says that Duke had returned from her first visit to Manila, with Rossellini, about a week before meeting Heffner. Ron Protas, the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, says, "Doris was very shy, and never thought enough of herself, because she was so beat up emotionally by her father. I thought she'd live to 90 or 100. ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. Other people told me that Duke suspected Heffner of poisoning or drugging her, and that she credited Lafferty with saving her life. and as we were leaving they exchanged telephone numbers. They talked constantly, and Nelson and Claudia used to go to lunches quite often with Chandi and Doris. He named both his private Pullman car and his 80-foot yacht after her, and surrounded her with bodyguards. 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. She's getting better.' This stuff was from Miss Duke's father. And along about March, I sent flowers and candy to her California home. They were putting up a curtain rod together. Mercedes Bass remembered Duke's coming for tea at the Carlyle Hotel a year or so earlier and introducing Heffner as "my niece." He made a comment that Doris had a fair number of complications as a result of the surgery. Duke believed that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden. I hired him to come out [to Los Angeles] and work for me, to kind of be my majordomo here. One evening Steve Levy said that Miss Duke wanted him to administer a urine test on me. "I looked upon Bernard as a member of the small Doris Duke family," says Donald Robinson. Each evening she would return to Duke Farms or her Manhattan apartment in time for dinner alone on a tray. (After Duke's death, the trustees of her estate became defendants in this lawsuit.). That was Doris. It was a really loving daughter-mother relationship. Heffner claims she gave up her own life to immerse herself in being a companion to the eccentric Duke: helping to manage the Duke Farms dairy, advising her on financial matters, overseeing her "disorganized and run-down estates," selling gold deposits from her myriad Swiss bank accounts and hiring a bodyguard to protect her from kidnappers. . "He was devastated. . The Sands says that Lafferty managed the theater, which headlined such stars as Bill Cosby, Joel Grey, and Rita Moreno. And he had quite a history. He felt deeply grateful to Doris, as I did.". . She thought it was very amusing. "It's very important that Doris has done this," he told me at the time. During this period, Duke also plunged into three large-scale public projects. 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. 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. ", 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. Born on 1940 to James Henry Roberts Cromwell and Doris Duke. 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. And last May, Surrogate Preminger accepted Miss Duke's. Duke was the only child of J.B. "Buck" Duke, who founded the American Tobacco Co. and later endowed Duke University in Durham, N.C. We would go into the kitchen, just the four of us. Moreover, Heffner's legal complaint against Duke states: Doris . Things escalated. She started taking piano lessons before she went to school, had pianos in every one of her houses as well as in the black lacquered living room of her Park Avenue penthouse, and played every afternoon. Los Angeles, A $150,000 executive protection dog? ", 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. Seemed. And, like Heffner, after following Duke from Duke Farms to Rough Point to Falcon's Lair to Shangri La for more than six years he was suddenly given a few hours to pack his bags and leave. 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