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Author
Series
Publisher
Christie's
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The set's main catalog includes artwork, furniture, and other decorative items from Duke's various estates. The wine cellar catalog highlights "bottling spanning 1904 to 1934 and encompassing the great chateaux and domaines of France from Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Champagne, as well as ports and medeiras. The auction's jewerly catalog reflects Duke's eclectic style, revealing "an accidental mix of antique pieces she inherited from her family, gems...
Author
Publisher
Tenacity Media Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire. Minutes later, she crushed him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon as they were leaving Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate in Newport, RI, the storied resort....
Author
Publisher
Tenacity Media Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire. Minutes later, she crushed him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon as they were leaving Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate in Newport, RI, the storied resort....