Apparently, the warm weather had had a good effect. The will provides Lafferty with an executor's fee of up to $5 million, a lifetime annuity of $500,000 a year, and commissions, which could run into the millions annually, as a trustee of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and of three other closely related new foundations: the Doris Duke Foundation for the Preservation of Endangered Wildlife, the Doris Duke Foundation for the Preservation of New Jersey Farmland and Farm Animals, and the Doris Duke Foundation of Islamic Art. This month, Chandi Heffner's lawyers, Ben Michel of Riker, Danzig and David Keyko of Winthrop, Stimson, will file her objections to Duke's will in New York State Surrogate Court, accusing Bernard Lafferty of "undue influence and sequestering." But she had a dramatic change in her lifeand it was weird. She has completely wired the small house on her own, and she boards horses and cows for neighbors for $15 a head per month. And that's how the relationship evolved. As the organization grew, she set up a program exclusively focused on serving people in rural communities where money, jobs, health care, and education are scarce. Chandi Duke Heffner was recognized for her outstanding support of the Marshall Legacy Institute's, landmine detection program. His breath almost knocked me off my feet.' The court also gave Doris title to the Fifth Avenue house, which she gave to New York University in 1957, and Rough Point, a huge Vanderbilt "cottage" in Newport. I know a lot of bull dykes. 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. 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 remember her referring to 'we dancers.' Duke may have been infatuated, but friends of Tirella's told me that he was unabashedly gay. He was cooking and she was serving. Farrah says that Duke had returned from her first visit to Manila, with Rossellini, about a week before meeting Heffner. ", Though she still would occasionally joke, "I haven't had any greens lately," which Nancy Cooke de Herrera says was Duke's code for sex, she seemed to be settling down. Chandi sued Dukes estate and wound up inheriting $65 million. Shes the daughter of billionaire Nelson Peltz. And then he was going to A.A., and he did very well in A.A., as far as I know. The two exchanged their "vows" at Duke's Hawaiian mansion, but it was revealed the whole thing was a hoax. 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. After she returned to Newport later that month, Banks invited her to a concert, but she forgot the date. For some reason, Doris actually came to believe that Chandi. Lafferty has released few details about Duke's final illness. "Miss Duke said to me, 'I think I may have been drugged. "She designed those houses and she saw to every color," says Newport artist Richard Banks. They had done the whole kitchen togetherthe carpentry, everything. ", Dr. Demopoulos told me, "I spoke to her in early January. The 1987 will had designated Heffner executor. 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. They were putting up a curtain rod together. This went on almost every meal. 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. Enzo Natale says, "Chandi had accused me of trying to rape her in Honolulu. Doris Duke committed suicide. In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. We would go into the kitchen, just the four of us. "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]. ". No wills! One evening Steve Levy said that Miss Duke wanted him to administer a urine test on me. Chandi Heffner In 1984, Doris met a woman named Chandi Heffner in Hawaii. In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. ". 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. Because it was her major incapacity; there really wasn't anything else wrong with Doris. In November 1991, Duke had a new will written, naming Irwin Bloom and Chemical Bank as executors. 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. He's standing on a street corner in New York right now and needs a place to go. (Other sources say the meeting took place in 1985.) Doris told Chandi that she was happy about her having a man in her life. ", Dr. Harry Demopoulos, an early promoter of antioxidants and megavitamins, whose patients include Clint Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone, had been Doris Duke's personal physician since 1981. Miss Duke's will went on: "I am extremely troubled by the realization that Chandi Heffner may use my 1988 adoption of her (when she was 35 years old) to attempt to benefit financially under the . I've talked to bankers who said she knew where every last nickel was. 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. Lafferty was accused of conspiring to kill his terminally ill employer with morphine. Most of Duke's friends hadn't had an inkling. She told me that in the months prior to her fall from grace one of Duke's doctors was injecting her with steroids, for knee problems, and that the psychological side effects of "the substance enabled the other people to talk her into whatever they wanted. "Doris did this more for the president. . I said, 'Doris, do it, I think it's a good thing.' After a two-week rejuvenation cure in Romania with the controversial Dr. Anna Aslan, they stopped in London. Heffner was in New York for a week, visiting her sister Claudia, who had married Nelson Peltz in 1980. Her Newport artist pal Richard Banks said that that summer "Doris decided to do the whole social thing and she loved it. "Sometimes people are attracted to the thing they fear the most.". As Heffner fights to undo the will, she speaks exclusively to BOB COLACELLO, who delves into the mystery of Duke's final years. There's no question that Bernard was more than just a butler. Franco Rossellini assured everyone that he was all for it. Usually something came in the mail that she wanted to discuss, because Chandi was taking care of her financial affairs. Two years later she bought Falcon's Lair, the Beverly Hills house where Rudolph Valentino once lived. She's getting better.' ", In late 1990, he said, "I detected a growing unhappiness on Doris's part. 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. 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 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. She was very into the ritualistic part of Hawaiian dance. Menu. "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. Heffner told me that Duke was annoyed with Rossellini for falling behind on the rent on the New Jersey guesthouse. Years ago, she was talking about the things we all talk about nowthe environment, battered women and children, animal rights. Her telephone was not listed in the Los Angeles area. According to her New York Times obituary, the cause of death was "pulmonary edema resulting in cardiac arrest." 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. Chandi Heffner is a small, sturdy woman with thick black shoulder-length hair and bone-white skin. 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. He was the legendary Latin lover Porfirio Rubirosa, the former son-in-law of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. Chandi Heffner is 69 years old today because Chandi's birthday is on 08/26/1953. It was perhaps her last romantic affair, and in some respects foreshadowed her relationship with Chandi Heffner. "She got baby doses for a few weeks and that was it. It was a really loving daughter-mother relationship. One repeated her response to a straight man who was reluctant to have dinner with Rock Hudson for fear that he would be molested. Yet it is the underlying misconception of almost everything ever written about her, including Stephanie Mansfield's 1992 biography, The Richest Girl in the World. Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes. Steve comes about four, and he and I go up to Bernard's room. ". 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. 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. 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 . After testy negotiations with local authorities, she finally shipped the pieces to New Jersey and installed them in her indoor tennis court. "She moved very well for that kind of dancingwe called it Middle Eastern, or danse orientale, but essentially it's belly dancing. "Doris was seeing a Japanese therapist for her knee problems . She wasn't Barbara Hutton," says Marina Cicogna, who was a friend of both heiresses. Doris seemed very, very happy. "She wasn't just one of those rich women who said, 'Restore me 60 houses.' "He was doing a lot of embroidery work for Doris. I was not aware of what management roles he might or might not have had. She was ahead of her time. Then she became pregnant and had a premature daughter named Arden, who lived only 24 hours. 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. Peggy Lee told me that she had spoken to Duke on the phone several times in her last months, and that Duke had made a donation to an AIDS charity that Lee is involved with. She really considered herself a dancer. "Her legs were almost starting to atrophy from lack of exercise." Keyko said that $800,000 was paid to Heffner on Friday. Like Heffner, Amar quickly became involved in the running of Duke's houses, business affairs, and charities. 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. If you want, we will give Bernard another chance, or we will get another butler. ' ", Duke gave him a house in Paris for a wedding gift, and a plane before their divorce one year later. Before moving to Chandi's current city of New York, NY, Chandi lived in Kamuela HI and Kawaihae HI.In the past, Chandi has also been known as Duke Chandi, Chani Duke Heffner, Chani D Heffner, Chandi K Heffner and Chandi Duke Heffner. Upon her father's death in 1925, the 13-year-old Doris Duke -- known as "The Richest Girl in the World" -- inherited several hundred million dollars. She was a cool lady. Nelson Peltz is financing Chandi Heffner's legal battle. She clapped her hands in glee. 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. "He was so attentive," Banks says. 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.' 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. Chandi Heffner and Doris Duke were having a lesbian affair. 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. He was born on August 27, 1952, in Peekskill, New York, USA, as Paul Rubenfeld. Inspired by this trip, they bought the most spectacular piece of property near Diamond Head in Honolulu, on which they built a Mogul-style fortress and named it Shangri La. Also at Duke Farms, she constructed a series of 11 greenhouses containing elaborate recreations of English, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and other gardens, which she opened to the public. "But she thought everybody was after her money. Duke, who had managed to avoid almost all publicity since the Tirella scandal, stunned the world in November 1988 by putting up the $5 million bail for Imelda Marcos, whom the U.S. government had charged with racketeering. . 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. Another time, at a college in upstate New York, Bobby [Farrah] didn't have her dancehe had her completely veiled, and she sat on the stage and played finger cymbals. . Believing that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden, Duke bought her a million-dollar ranch in Hawaii, and . And along about March, I sent flowers and candy to her California home. Of course, many of the sources for these allegations are people who were left out of the will, or cut out of the will, or people who hope to eventually receive grants from the Duke foundations. 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 night at dinner, she told me, 'You know, my father always said no one would ever love me except for my money, and to be very careful.' If someone crossed them, they just put them out of their lives. It was 1982, and Heffner was taking a class at Farrah's studio near Times Square. That's the same as around $125 million in today's dollars. Shortly after Duke's 80th birthday, in November, Nelson Seabra saw her at C. Z. Until Doris Duke's death, this would be her principal residence. "There were clear indications of a growing trust, affection, and devotion between them. Miss Duke lives in a walled 2,700-acre estate in Hillsborough, and rarely attracted . ", 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. According to the 1993 Forbes Four Hundred list, Doris Duke was the 18th-richest woman in America, not far behind cosmetics billionairess Este Lauder. You're Arden. '" "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. It's so hard for me still, so hard." I feel in danger.' 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. While Lafferty was hospitalized, Rybak says, "Doris said to me, 'Tom, we are going to leave this up to you. 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 think this was the steroid thing happening. She was taking so many pills at the end and, knowingly or not, killed herself. Chandi was into Eastern cultures and all that stuff, and so was Doris. ", Duke had a passion for the performing arts all her life. She had had several leg operations, after a riding accident, but she participated in the seminar. Demopoulos said that Duke had mentioned her suspicions that she was being poisoned. Heffner pleaded on his behalf and asked to speak to Duke, but Robinson told her that Duke was tired. Heffner takes credit for everything from improving the dairy herd at Duke Farms to arranging the sale of Duke's gold deposits in Switzerland. Finally, one of her new lawyers, Mr. Doyle, got it back on track. Marcos has said that she and Duke were friends of almost 20 years, but others say that they met in the late 1970s through Franco Rossellini. I'll go to dinner with them. Chandi said, 'But where do I find a man?' "He was devastated. The Untold Truth of Stephen Hawking's Son - Ti. She was very intelligent and very together. She was alarmingly fragile." . 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. "Bernard got out of the hospital. 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. 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? All; Titles; TV Episodes; Celebs; Companies; Keywords; Banks never saw her again. In 1933, when she turned 21, Doris Duke came into the first $10 million left by her father. 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. ", "What struck me about Chandi was her hairit came all the way down below her waist," says Phyllis Saretta of her first meeting with Chandi Heffner. His mother was a teacher, while his father fought as a pilot during WWII. The Sands says that Lafferty managed the theater, which headlined such stars as Bill Cosby, Joel Grey, and Rita Moreno. After giving the matter prolonged and serious consideration, I am convinced that I should not have adopted Chandi Heffner. 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. It was clear that something adverse was going on in the latter part of 1990 in Hawaii. And then the wine was $1,000 a bottle; it came from her father's cellars. Records: 123. ", Heffner blamed Duke's altered feelings on the steroids she claims Duke was taking then. I hired him to come out [to Los Angeles] and work for me, to kind of be my majordomo here. ", "Doris wanted the things money couldn't buy. It was at this time, she said, that Duke told her that she thought her food was being poisoned. Through shrewd investments and her legendary parsimony, she managed to more than triple her holdings. Duke was spending the spring, as usual, at her 2,700-acre Duke Farms, in Somerville, New Jersey. We knock, we bang, we yell. If I were Victoria Beckham, I wouldnt count on a big wedding present. Doris was into it, too. Steve said, 'Your food has changed so suddenly Miss Duke thinks you must be on drugs.' "They did not meet in dance class," he insists. On New Year's Day 1964, she ordered him out, and he retaliated by suing her, claiming that they had been secretly married. 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. Heffner told me that "even back in high school I began kind of a quest to see if there was more to life," and that after a trip around the world, she ended up in Hawaii, meditating, surfing, and exercising polo ponies. 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