When Doris Duke, a fabulously wealthy tobacco and power company heiress, ran over and killed a longtime employee and confidant at her Newport, Rhode Island, mansion in 1966, police took her at her ...

When Doris Duke, heiress to the Duke family tobacco fortune, was born in 1912, newspapers christened her “the richest little girl.” The moniker held true: At the age of 12, she inherited $50 million ...

A federal judge has ordered a great-nephew of tobacco heiress Doris Duke to pay an Oregon man $2.2 million in damages for allegedly stealing an unfinished book and movie manuscript from his home. The ...

Sallie Bingham’s new biography, “The Silver Swan,” adds a wealth of new material to our understanding of the heiress and philanthropist. By Meryl Gordon Colonial-era homes line the streets of The ...