HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, the true crime story launched in Vanity Fair on how billionairess Doris Duke killed designer Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her Newport, RI estate and got away with murder

By Peter Lance April 18th, 2025 In the fall of 2018, I returned to my hometown of Newport, RI, to investigate an historic true crime legend: whether or not Doris Duke, the richest woman in America in 1966, had escaped criminal charges in a cover up by local police after she crushed her longtime designer/companion … Continue reading HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, the true crime story launched in Vanity Fair on how billionairess Doris Duke killed designer Eduardo Tirella outside the gates of her Newport, RI estate and got away with murder