{"id":13747,"date":"2022-01-15T23:12:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T06:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=13747"},"modified":"2022-08-04T22:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T05:47:58","slug":"vanity-fair-the-doris-duke-case-reopens-the-only-known-eyewitness-speaks-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=13747","title":{"rendered":"Vanity Fair: The Doris Duke Case Reopens: The Only Living Witness Speaks For The First Time."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Vanity%20Fair%3A%20The%20Doris%20Duke%20Case%20Reopens%3A%20The%20Only%20Living%20Witness%20Speaks%20For%20The%20First%20Time.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><div>\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt SplitScreenContentHeaderDek-jtcVRv eTiIvU ggsQtV eFEUHE\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/contributor\/peter-lance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">By Peter Lance<\/a> August 5th, 2021<\/span> A former Newport, Rhode Island, paperboy says that in 1966 he confronted the billionaire heiress right after she may have committed murder\u2014a chilling update to <em>V.F.<\/em>\u2019s previous reporting and the author\u2019s new book,\u00a0<em>Homicide at Rough Point.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2021\/08\/the-doris-duke-cold-case-reopens-eyewitness-speaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLICK<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for the full story. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/video\/watch\/an-eyewitnesss-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>CLICK <\/strong><\/span><\/a> for a video:<\/div>\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-TURhJ BaseText-fFzBQt SplitScreenContentHeaderDek-jtcVRv eTiIvU hXSlCW eFEUHE split-screen-content-header__dek\">\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/video\/watch\/an-eyewitnesss-account\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13750\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-10.11.46-PM-1024x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-10.11.46-PM-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-10.11.46-PM-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-10.11.46-PM-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-10.11.46-PM-1536x844.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-10.11.46-PM-2048x1126.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-10.11.46-PM-800x440.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a>Mario Puzo famously began <em>The Godfather<\/em>\u00a0with Balzac\u2019s observation, slightly amended, that \u201cbehind every great fortune there is a crime.\u201d And so it was with the tobacco, aluminum, and energy fortune inherited by Doris Duke, once the richest woman in America.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago,\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2020\/07\/did-doris-duke-get-away-with-murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my account<\/a>\u00a0of the life and death of designer Eduardo Tirella, who, late one afternoon in 1966, was crushed under the wheels of a Dodge Polara station wagon driven by Duke. For seven years, he had been her constant companion, planning her gardens, curating her art collection, and decorating her mansions. In fact, his death occurred just outside the gates of her most sumptuous home: Rough Point, the sprawling estate on Millionaire\u2019s Row in Newport, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">A notoriously jealous and possessive woman, Duke had stabbed her common-law husband, jazz musician Joseph Castro, with a butcher knife three years earlier and escaped any criminal charges. On the afternoon in question, Tirella had just told Duke he was leaving her employ to make his mark in Hollywood. Then, moments later, as they left the mansion, he was dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Within 96 hours the local police closed the case, declaring it \u201can unfortunate accident.\u201d Within a matter of months, Duke began donating what would today amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations in the city of Newport. The police chief who oversaw the probe, Joseph A. Radice, retired months later; others involved in the perfunctory investigation were promoted. For years residents whispered that Duke had gotten away with murder and that \u201cblood money\u201d had helped pay for her eventual restoration of more than 80 Colonial-era homes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homicide-Rough-Point-Peter-Lance\/dp\/0996285598\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14376\" title=\"AMAZON HOM PAGE 4 EDITIONS\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/HOM-Audible-Cover-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"CneVideoEmbedFigure-bJIZil ihmZgh cne-video-embed\" data-event-boundary=\"click\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;pattern&quot;:&quot;CNEVideoEmbed&quot;}\" data-include-experiments=\"true\">\n<div data-testid=\"script-container\">\n<div id=\"cc351d7d-d362-9763-3a34-eafbe9175cb4\" class=\"cne-player-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Vanity%20Fair%3A%20The%20Doris%20Duke%20Case%20Reopens%3A%20The%20Only%20Living%20Witness%20Speaks%20For%20The%20First%20Time.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>By Peter Lance August 5th, 2021 A former Newport, Rhode Island, paperboy says that in 1966 he confronted the billionaire heiress right after she may have committed murder\u2014a chilling update to V.F.\u2019s previous reporting and the author\u2019s new book,\u00a0Homicide at Rough Point.\u00a0 CLICK for the full story. 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