One repeated her response to a straight man who was reluctant to have dinner with Rock Hudson for fear that he would be molested. "Doris was seeing a Japanese therapist for her knee problems . Then [Franco and I] didn't see Doris anymore. ", Sometimes, Robert Farrah recalls, "Doris would throw up her hands and say, 'No wills! A Hare Krishna, sort of, Chandi went to Hawaii in the late 1980s and inveigled herself into the life of another billionaire, Doris Duke, the richest woman in the world. 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. In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. In court papers, Heffner -- a Baltimore native -- says the two women met in Hawaii in 1981. 'I loved her so much. She was very happy doing that.". 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. 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. Her telephone was not listed in the Los Angeles area. He spent many weekends at a guesthouse at Duke Farms and was her escort when she went into the city for lunches and dinners with friends such as Diana Vreeland, Nan Kempner, and Kenneth Jay Lane. ", Almost every friend of Duke's I talked to, including her many homosexual friends, told me that she had always been an avid heterosexual. This whole thing is such a shock." She was alarmingly fragile." 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. Like all of her houses, it was guarded by fierce Dobermans or German shepherds. 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. "Chandi loved animals. A. once a week wherever we were. They all of a sudden just totally cut me off, and I can't believe that was Doris. Tom Ford. Jane Engelhard sat next to the bodyguard, and you should have seen her face. 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. "He had done her hair in a pageboy, and she looked so pretty, though she was painfully thin." I think somebody is trying to kill me.". ", Heffner wryly noted that Bernard Lafferty, accompanied by a bodyguard and chauffeur, had sat through her depositions wearing a five-carat-diamond earring, a diamond bracelet, and a diamond watch. [Chandi] is a monster. There's no question that Bernard was more than just a butler. Heffner Duke, adopted in 1988 when she was 38 and the heiress was in her 70s, could not be reached for comment. I was constantly arguing with Bernard . . Chandi Duke Heffner was recognized for her outstanding support of the Marshall Legacy Institute's, landmine detection program. . 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. Then she became pregnant and had a premature daughter named Arden, who lived only 24 hours. We wouldn't sit in the main dining room. She was wearing a dark-blue turtleneck, old Levi's, cotton socks, and scruffy moccasins. Lafferty also may pay fees to and divide commissions among the trustees as he sees fit. 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. . ", She had already been planning to divorce Cromwell, but he apparently demanded a $7 million settlement. ", Robert Farrah agrees: "Doris Duke was not this elusive reclusive. 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 came back clean as a whistle. He always seemed to be there whenever she needed him. 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. Chandi Heffner Duke passed away on 1940. Sources at Duke's estates, however, portrayed Heffner in a different light. "Both of them greeted us at the door. 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. We would be four, six, eightOatsie Charles, Nuala Pell, Minnie Cushing, Lita McBean and her husband, and Sunny and me. Phyllis Saretta told me that Duke performed with the Farrah company four or five times, wearing a long black wig. On Thursday, October 28, 1993, Duke died at Falcon's Lair. In her will, Duke requested that no funeral or memorial service be held for her. She told me she was supposed to start hula dancing professionally at a hotel in Hawaii. Duke died at age 80 in 1988, leaving a hotly contested $1.5 billion estate. 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. The following February, Farrah repeated the seminar, and it was apparently then that Chandi Heffner entered Doris Duke's life. In 1985, she met Chandi Heffner, a 32-year-old Hari Krishna devotee. . . ), 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. I said, 'Doris, get out of that house. I feel unsure of myself physically. It would be her last trip to Europe, and she also visited Poland with Brazilian grande dame Aime de Hereen. Duke believed that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden. According to the Mansfield biography, Cromwell asked her on their sexless wedding night what his annual income from her would be. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. 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. 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. 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. And I didn't sense any antagonism between Chandi and Bernard." "She told me she was bored silly, and the palace was so froufrou. Chandi Heffner In 1984, Doris met a woman named Chandi Heffner in Hawaii. A member of Heffner's family said yesterday that it is likely Chandi Duke Heffner, who legally changed her name, will accept a settlement for several million dollars. Heffner told me, "Doris used to call James 'Teach.' (Marcos was eventually acquitted, and returned to the Philippines.). Newsom Closes California Theaters, "Dancing with the Stars" Needs a New Partner: Longtime Host Tom Bergeron Told Goodbye By ABC, Along with CoHost Erin Andrews, The Weeknd, Already on the Outs with the Grammys, Goes After Rolling Stone So They Rip Apart His New Show (Got That? Doris was into it, too. Doris Duke met Chandi Heffner in 1985 and felt a strong maternal connection to Her. The balance is due Wednesday. 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. I remember that the captain of the helicopter was very worried and wanted her to leave early. One afternoon in February, the architect John Warnecke went to Shangri La for tea. . Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. "She's an unusually intelligent person: perceptive, articulate, well-read, culturally alive. You felt that she was going to break. She got right up like a trouper and fell right down again. 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. All; Titles; TV Episodes; Celebs; Companies; Keywords; (The hospital said that Bernard Lafferty was a patient from July 1 to July 14, 1987.). "It was unbelievable how hard she worked. . I really don't know what the hell was going on, frankly. Chandi Heffner was "planted" on Doris Duke by Imelda Marcos. No wills! I turned and saw her on the floor. 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. The last words were 'Stay in touch, Harry.' Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes. 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. Phyllis Saretta says, "Chandi told me that her sister had a butler and a chauffeur and the whole thing. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? He received nothing. And the servants were absolutely bizarreponytailed, rings, sandals ". 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. Heffner pleaded on his behalf and asked to speak to Duke, but Robinson told her that Duke was tired. The two women developed a deep bond almost instantly. He went to Sarasota High School. In 1969, socialite C. Z. As Heffner fights to undo the will, she speaks exclusively to BOB COLACELLO, who delves into the mystery of Duke's final years. I remember when I read his resume, I thought, This man has really been through it. 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. You can live in the manner that I live and have this lifestyle. So I fixed another tray and brought it upstairs. Love. "I don't think you're supposed to use alcohol with steroids, and she was drinking sherry in the evenings." I was not aware of what management roles he might or might not have had. In June 1985, Duke and Heffner traveled to Russia together. Of course, they had a very attractive life. "They did not meet in dance class," he insists. Both Heffner and her lawyers emphatically deny that Nelson Peltz is financing Heffner's legal efforts. 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. He's a sweet human being, and he seemed to be honest and fiercely defensive of Doris. She took daily tap lessons from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson at the Cotton Club, and for years studied ballet under Cyd Charisse's ex-husband, Nico. When Duke was 27 years old, she delivered a premature baby daughter who died just 24 hours after being born. Enzo Natale concurs: "Chandi and Bernard were twins.". This went on almost every meal. 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. She had received another $10 million of her inheritance in 1937, and would receive at least as much in 1942. ", The day after the adoption, the economist Woody Brock went to lunch at Duke Farms with Duke's New Jersey neighbor Jane Engelhard. Duke is portrayed by her adopted daughter as a lonely, paranoid recluse in need of constant care. He was later retried and acquitted. I said, 'Sure, have him call me.' Doris wouldn't take a pill unless she really needed it. 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. ", Thomas Rybak maintains, "I personally believe that Chandi was pushed out by Bernard. Cary W. Goldstein, Burns lawyer, says Heffner Duke broke ``a very explicit deal she had with Burns, although it was never written down. I remember her referring to 'we dancers.' She was having a real whirl." Chandi said, 'But where do I find a man?' "Nobody gave Doris any credit for having any taste, any intelligence, any anything," says Marion Oates Charles, known as Oatsie. After testy negotiations with local authorities, she finally shipped the pieces to New Jersey and installed them in her indoor tennis court. In 1987, Heffner handled the negotiations for Duke's most talked-about acquisition: two Bactrian camels, which were thrown in as a sweetener on the deal to purchase a 19-passenger Boeing 737-300 for $25 million. "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. 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. 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. . You don't have to go back. ", "When one of Doris's love affairs ended, there was always great drama," says her friend Consuelo Crespi. On the last day of the seminar, he spent the afternoon with Duke at Shangri La. It was at this time, she said, that Duke told her that she thought her food was being poisoned. ", Burns began working out with Duke on a regular basis. In her lawsuit, Heffner claims it was she who arranged this transaction, as well as the payment of $5 million of Marcos's legal bills. Imelda stayed for a week, I think. "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.' She told me during a break that she had studied reiki, a Japanese healing rite, and she said, 'Maybe I could help you with your knee.' 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. And then he was going to A.A., and he did very well in A.A., as far as I know. . She was contemplating having knee replacements. James Burns, now an aspiring actor in Los Angeles, says that he and Chandi "are giving each other space for a while.". 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. In 1933, when she turned 21, Doris Duke came into the first $10 million left by her father. "We discussed cremation, and she said, 'Never, never, ever let anyone cremate me.' There was lack of ostentation. and I finally quit just before Labor Day. ". The power that this will gives Bernard Lafferty is "awesome," says one attorney. About Heffner's sister. 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. . Heffner told me that Duke was annoyed with Rossellini for falling behind on the rent on the New Jersey guesthouse. Contrary to Heffner's version of events, he told me that he had prescribed anabolic steroids for Duke for her knee problems in late 1989 or early 1990. She also asked to be buried at sea. "She forgave Rubi everything," says Reinaldo Herrera, even his subsequent marriage to Barbara Hutton. Richard Banks called Lafferty the next day. On New Year's Day 1964, she ordered him out, and he retaliated by suing her, claiming that they had been secretly married. 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. . I almost feel . ", 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. The next day Duke's lawyer called Heffner again and informed her that Duke wanted her out, too. Ron Protas also told me that Duke had a fear of fire, and that when he told her about "the terrible experience" of scattering Martha Graham's ashes, Duke said, "It's never going to happen to me. . He's standing on a street corner in New York right now and needs a place to go. "She was told she has a pretty good case," the family member said. Chandi called Steve Levyhe did security for Doristo find out what to do. In 1925, at the age of 13, she inherited an estimated $100 million in trusts from her father, James Buchanan Duke, a coarse but brilliant self-made man who founded the American Tobacco Company and the Duke Power Company, and who endowed Trinity College in North Carolina with millions, reportedly on the condition it change its name to Duke University. Chandi Duke Heffner net worth is $300,000. Lafferty can appoint the bank that will serve as the estate's co-executor, and three of the four other trustees of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. "Rubi" was also presented with a string of polo ponies and a house in Paris. "Cromwell was quite nice," says Nelson Seabra, a rich Brazilian friend of Duke's. "I couldn't quite keep up, so I was in the back of the class. I never heard from Doris again and I could never reach her again. 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. In 1995, Chandi Heffner Duke, the disinherited adopted daughter, reached a $65 million settlement with Mr. Lafferty and the estate. I feel in danger.' I hired him to come out [to Los Angeles] and work for me, to kind of be my majordomo here. This was at 11 in the morning. "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." 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. Even Imelda didn't see her.". 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. 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. "She got baby doses for a few weeks and that was it. (1940 - 1940) Photos: 19. If you want, we will give Bernard another chance, or we will get another butler. ' 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. I usually got one of the help. In the car, Chandi was saying, 'Oh, she's such a nice lady, and the house is gorgeous!' Brooklyn Beckham, whos 21, has announced hes marrying Nicola Peltz, 25. 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. 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. She wasn't about being a pretty, rich American girl. Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. She was a cool lady. And she was so frail. (Burns dismisses reports that he was once a Chippendales dancer: "Not that I haven't been asked. Ignoring Chandi Heffner, the latter-day flower child whom she adopted in. On rare occasions I got Bernard. Duke's Los Angeles decorator Tony Duquette adds, "He was just marvelous to Doris, and not at all sinister. She had this terrible fear of fire." "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]. Her lawyer, David Keyko, said yesterday that in. "Elvis made whites interested in black music," she once told me, "which was very important, because race is the biggest problem we have in America.". ", Duke gave him a house in Paris for a wedding gift, and a plane before their divorce one year later. When I go I'll be eaten by the sharks.". Everything good I could say about Bernard, I do. If I were Victoria Beckham, I wouldnt count on a big wedding present. They would helicopter over to Somerville from their estate in Bedford, New York.". She really had a feeling for him, and expressed annoyance with Imelda. ", Heffner was sitting in the Manhattan apartment of one of her lawyers on a Saturday afternoon late last December. Keyko said that $800,000 was paid to Heffner on Friday. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. 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