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Hey, weirdos. I'm Elena.
And I'm Ash. And this is morbid.
It's morbid in the afternoon.
Yippee. Kaye it hasn't been morbid in the morning for a while yeah because we're always doing like admin shit in the morning yeah and it's like kids going to school so it just gets chaotic in the morning now it really does the puppies are like cry crying yeah now there's puppies involved in the whole thing so our mornings start john and my mornings start at like 3 a .m now yeah so it's been a ride oh and by the way thanks everybody for mentioning litter mate syndrome I have gotten more messages than I can count about littermate syndrome fun and I appreciate the concern I did research littermate
syndrome before I got these puppies so I know all about it we have a trainer we're very like on it that's when they get being separated with training and being separated with sleeping and all that good stuff they just snuggle together sometimes during the day the littermate syndrome thing is when they get like too bonded and then they hate you yeah they either like they like Like, super bond with each other and don't bond with you.
Or they get super aggressive with each other and can get, like, it can get, like, dangerous.
Oh, shit. Like, they can get, like, too aggressive with each other.
Damn. So we're on it.
You know? My cats just, like, sniff each other's balls.
To be honest. Well, Sydney and Blanche seem to dig each other.
Yeah, they're good bros.
Yeah, they're good bros.
I love them. They can handle being apart right now, so that's good.
Yeah. Yeah. We'll just keep it up.
Dogs and cats. nick but thanks for everybody mentioning that i appreciate it but just know that i know what it is so i promise i know what it is i didn't i thought you were gonna say no i thought i was too and then she took a breath yeah i really did and she looked at her page and i said oh what's what's coming and then nothing came i think i just forgot how to do this for a second which is bad it's been a a busy week we had a busy week we we got to collab with bailey sarian with the girls from red hand with the girls from red hannah hannah and saruti it was they all three of those gals are top
fucking notch humans they really are let me tell you it's so weird though seeing that many humans within a one week period because we live a life where like we see each other yep our spouses and and that's literally it and the it's even weirder because we have collabed with bailey before but it was over the internet and like we feel like we know each other and then we got to do it this time in person right so we were like we're meeting each other but like we're not meeting each other because we know each other yeah but it was very strange and then red handed was in person too so it was like we're
usually doing these things on zoom so it was a whole week of in person and getting to hang with pod friends.
It was great. It was so much fun.
It was really fun. It was just wild.
I forgot how to act for a minute.
Yeah, I always forget how to act.
I was like, oh, hi.
Yeah. Oh, hey, I'm Ash.
Hey, weirdos. And then they're like, this is life.
This is life. Ash, are you broken?
They're like, oh, hey, weirdos.
What's going on? They're like, that what?
Me checking out at Target.
I'm like, hi, oh, yeah.
Weirdo. Keep it weird. Bye.
just like short circuit everywhere i go weird bye that's who we are oh i feel like a robot sometimes but don't we all yeah don't we all yeah i'm trying to think if i have any uh any more i'm i'm sure i'll have more tiktok shout outs for you guys like in the next episode i haven't been on tiktok as much yeah that's fun but i'm gonna get back on to it so i'll have some more for you because it's fun to shout out tiktok people did you see tom sandoval and watch what happens live last night that's something we could talk about oh no god no i was like excuse me no i didn't no that happened in an alternate
universe yeah no tom schwartz was on watch what happens live and he told people to hug tom no tom schwartz was on and he told people to hug tom sandoval if they saw them and did you see la la's response to that no but she said we're not gonna hug him we're gonna atomic wedgie him which i was like yeah that's pretty pretty epic so you don't put your hands on anybody else but but atomic wedgie i like it that i mean welcome to vpr corner for a second but man i can't wait for that reunion guys and it's not happening until like the end of may i know you keep telling me that and it's almost like you
punch me in the face every time well it's because if i remember it i feel like i've been punched from within my face so then i have have to outwardly punch you in the face but like figuratively yeah you know it makes me sad though i don't want to wait that long i don't either but ariana looks phenomenal she looks so fucking good the revenge dress oh my god shouldn't we all be so lucky shouldn't we all be that goddess the baddest bitch on the planet she really is but you know what i have a long one for you today i'm i'm here for it there was really no way to transition there is vanderpump rules
into true crime but there never is we should probably begin with vanderpump rules get into chit chat and then going to the story because it's probably an easier segue yeah sagoo but who knows um who isn't that where did i hear sagoo was it the office no i oh it's um and that's why we drink oh they say that yes sagoo i was like i want to give them cred because i remember hearing that word i like sagoo i like it a lot and i like it that's why we drink hey i'm christine hey what's up we love you um okay well yeah so we're gonna be talking about what's one of my favorite things in the entire world
other than old hollywood socialite an old socialite i fucking love it and we're gonna be talking about doris motherfucking duke oh let's go and she's actually one of the most like famous socialites in america from the very start of her life she had access to quite literally all the money and all the power in the world wow but weirdly she spent a good portion of her life like bouncing from one disappointing relationship to the next unfortunate yeah every time she entered a new relationship she was more and more jaded from the last one and it was kind of a pattern that was taking shape doris really
seemed to be losing control of herself and her emotions toward like the middle part of her life not great which could be part of the reason that she is linked to the suspicious death of one eduardo terrella but because he appears in like the later portion of her life and there's a lot to cover before that we're gonna start at the very beginning planning before we give too much away.
Let's go. Because I know you guys don't like if we give too much away.
So I said, I won't.
I won't do it. I won't.
I will cater to you, my little babies.
And I meant that lovingly, not like you're being a baby.
I meant like you are my babies.
I meant you are my babies.
My babies. Actually, Moira Rose is on the other side of my mic right now.
So Dora, she was born on November 22nd, 1912.
And from the time she took her first breath, she was among the rarest class of individuals set above and apart from other americans because of all the money she was born into it's a whole lot of money in a small fucker you know what i mean you know what i mean you know what i mean we're all like yeah carty totally so her father was james buchanan duke better known to his friends and family as simply buck buck which i'm like if you have a motherfucking name like buchanan don't you dare air shorten it to buck yeah don't buchanan is hannon beautiful yeah i mean come on he could do whatever he damn
well pleased because he was one of the richest men in the world and he was one of the richest men in the world because he had inherited his father's tobacco company and also a power company later so he expanded the tobacco company greatly he actually made them the first company to operate automatic uh automated cigarette machines in the us which like delightful so cool but like so terrible wonderful cool that like he invented something that could make it happen so quickly but bad because cancer sticks truth so by 1900 he had gained control of a lot of the competing brands and he consolidated all
of them and formed the american tobacco tobacco company awesome yay so happy about that this is wild eventually he owned almost 93 percent of the tobacco market in the u .s wow and a power company on the side damn like money the money i told you it's a whole lot of money it's almost all of it actually damn and you said money and manpower and you meant it oh i meant it you really meant it literal power no like you meant like power i got the power but it's literal power and tobacco which is also power at this point yeah i really i know yeah at that point people thought like smoking cigarettes cured
everything exactly so buck married his second wife who was known as nanny that's what they called her because her name was nanalene i believe is how you say it i love a nanny yeah my grandmother was nanny nanny yeah my kid's grandmother is nanny my kid's grandmother will also be nanny because my mother well soon to be mother -in -law is nanny yeah and she spells it just like our nanny oh i love that which makes me happy yeah um so yes he married nanaly nanny holt inman in 1907 after a very messy and very public divorce from his previous wife just one year before her name was lillian but But I didn't
really look into her, to be honest. That's okay.
I'm sure Lillian was fine.
Who really knows? Because they got divorced.
It could have been him.
It could have been her.
Could have been anything.
It's not my business.
But Nanny. She's my business.
Nanny. She had become a young widow in 1902 when her husband, wealthy industrialist. Is that how you say that?
Yeah. Thanks. William Inman, he died in 1902 from what is listed as diabetes.
But in all likelihood, it might have been alcoholism.
Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, diabetes will do.
so after her that'll do yeah after her husband's death she spent years traveling shopping being a young society woman pretty much all I've ever hoped and dreamed of yeah until she met Ben Duke who was Buck's younger brother and they met in 1906 at Lake Talks Away Resort um which I'm like did you name it Talks Away because like even back then it was like trendy to get the toxins persons away oh i like that maybe it's a place i don't really know but who really cares what it was i i mean maybe you do but whatever the meaning changed the entire course of nanny's life is the point here ben ended up
writing a letter to his older brother and told him quote i have met the most beautiful woman in the world essentially trying to set his older brother up with this sexy ass lady good for him and guess what what the plan worked what and by By the next year, Nanny and Buck were married on July 24th in a small ceremony in Brooklyn.
Oh, adorable. Yeah.
Now Nanny, she brought a huge inheritance to this new marriage and also her son from that previous marriage, Walker Inman.
Buck initially actually wanted to adopt Walker because, you know, he would be a son.
He would go on to carry the Duke legacy.
An heir. It would be wonderful.
But Walker was like, fuck all of that.
he didn't care he literally said that he it's the direct quote i don't know where i found it but it's direct he was not interested he made it clear from a very early age that he did not wish for buck to adopt him and they actually fought a lot over their years like a ton but especially more and more as walker got older and the fights led buck to worry that he was not gonna have anybody buddy especially like a child to leave his fortune to or to carry on his name yeah like he's like well shit this is all gonna end with me and this is like an amazing empire yeah you can't just let it float off into
the ether that would suck so bad stranger take it i know right so luckily in the spring of 1912 that all changed when at 42 years old nanny discovered she was pregnant whoa right which like must have been crazy back then too because like we know a lot more about pregnancy now but like in 1912 i feel like that must have been a little scary yeah you know yeah like i don't think she expected to find herself no definitely not in 1912 exactly now that fall she went into labor actually unexpectedly and doris our girly girl but like not really was born in the master bedroom of the buck and or of buck
and nanny's rented house which was on new york 78th street and as she was born she was surrounded by quote a fleet of high -priced private physicians and nurses she was just surrounded by money by money they just as she came into the world they just threw cash at her they absolutely did yep they were like let's make it rain up in here let's make it rain for this infant and this like it's really interesting that this happened but it's also really scary because her birth made headlines in major cities across the country in america that's terrifying and of course the press noted that she was now the sole
inheritor of buck's 100 million dollar estate which led to her being nicknamed the richest girl in the world oh that's a little scary right that's a little scary and you know what maybe i'm thinking of it in like a now age where like social media is so scary and things fly so quickly but i mean back then back then the news was the news obviously but it was like social media yeah it's like oof that's a little scary and a lot to put on a baby a lot to put on a baby and on her family to shield her from and by the way so his estate was worth a hundred million then today that would be worth three billion dollars
whenever you bring me into a place of billion i don't my mind cannot no comprehend a billion no like a billion that's watching succession the other night they were talking about some deal and they were like 10 billion and they were just saying it like it was it sounds fake here's a cob salad like it was just like it was so normal and i was like billions like billions billion literally sounds fake to me billion exists like that's crazy to me it's wild yeah just ask you know shiv and logan roy i will it exists it exists and they throw it around like monopoly money over there i mean when you get
to billion i feel like it is fucking monopoly yeah at that point it's got to be like whatever what's scary is i was never ever good at monopoly money so i don't know i was never a monopoly gal i am gonna go on the record right now i fucking hate monopoly oh that's that's a bold stance to take i i will you know what i'll stand with you okay but only because i cannot remember the last time i played monopoly don't and i never remember it being a good time it's never a good time whenever it was like brought forth that we were gonna bring out the monopoly board i was like i would rather go lay in the the middle
of the road you're gonna bring out clue let's motherfucking sit down we'll make a night of it yeah i got kids clue for my kids recently cool it's so much fun you have to figure out who broke the toy that's that's what you do in kids clue because like i'm not going to introduce them to murder like right now when they're seven why not but i know it's crazy but man they love that and they keep asking me to play the adult clue and i'm like not yet not yet just because of the basis of of it yeah you don't need to explain one i don't want to explain that to you and two you don't need to go to school
and talk about like the butler was murdered in the kitchen with the candlestick oh my god but kids clue who broke that toy and what toy was it that broke yeah that's fun it's all the same characters i like that a lot i love it but yeah clue i'm all about monopoly not so much no i'm fuck monopoly too much but doris but doris too she's rich as fuck and from the moment she was born it was clear her life was going to be very very different than anybody else's life around yeah buck was also a huge germaphobe and he was like incredibly protective of her so he bought a private pullman car that he named
doris that way the family could travel around new york just like totally isolated from the general public but the car was stocked with champagne champagne cigars and staffed with a full -time chef that's so wait this is a car for the child and like the family but like he got it so that the child wouldn't be like just wheeled around in a little i thought you meant this was literally just for the child and it was like stocked with champagne cigar tobacco he bought it when they had the child it's kind of like when you get like when you have more than two children and you get a third row yeah like you
get the bigger car you You get a rich little baby to give all your inheritance to, so you get them a car that's stocked with all that shit and a chef.
That's sick. Which I was like, but where does the chef cook though?
Yeah, that was my first question that I was going to have about that.
It's like, what's happening there?
What kind of chef is it?
Is it only a salad chef?
He's a full -time chef.
He's a full -time chef.
So also it's like, is he just hanging out in that car?
All the time? That's not good for you.
Just at the ready? I don't know.
And it's like, is everything up to code?
I don't think there even was a code back then.
Is the temperature of everything right when he starts cooking?
I don't know. Like, I don't know about that.
It's going to get real fumey up in that car.
Yeah, I'd rather just stop and get some burgers on the way.
Yeah, too much going on.
Yeah. But Buck also hired what was described as a battery of nurses and bodyguards to protect his daughter.
Get it. Because he was rightfully convinced that she had become an attractive target for kidnappers.
Yeah. since everyone was like hey this bitch has three billion three hundred billion dollars yeah you know wait yeah no three billion not oh excuse me that'd be insane yeah that would be wild that would be crazy and you know what i don't blame him i don't care billions of dollars he can afford to do it do whatever the fuck you want do it man it's for your kid but that's the thing when she had been born and dubbed the richest girl in the world it opened the floodgates and tons and tons of letters were starting to be sent to the family on a regular basis begging the baby for money like she can't
even write you back always been people and yeah people you know like people always just people always take it that extra mile people stay people they do yeah true like you said that and i was like what the hell guy then i was like no that makes no that's really not open up your venmo yeah but the thought of someone kidnapping her for ransom wasn't far -fetched so buck was was spending money to protect his daughter out of pure fear and constant paranoia and when he wasn't doing that he was showering her and his wife with like super extravagant gifts and artwork and antiques like craziness sounds
like the life is it the life of riley did they say it sounds like yeah it is is it riley is it riley but from the moment she arrived in this world there was a very loud and clear message being conveyed to doris that you could have whatever the fuck you you want whenever the fuck you want and there is nothing that can't be bought because you have the means to do so and herein lies the problem all of that other stuff you're like that sounds cool beautiful awesome yeah yeah why not you got the money for it do it but then when you get to that part you're like and there it is that's the issue exactly
that is the issue exactly that doesn't make a great adult.
No. Or an easy to deal with adult.
No. No. No, no. No, no. So shortly after Doris was born, the family actually moved back to Duke Farms, which was their 2 ,700 acre in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey.
It's actually cool to read about Doris because she's from around here.
I know that is cool.
She spends most of her time in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island, actually.
Oh, that's funny. Yeah.
Like the Newport mansions will they have such like a cool mystique about them oh my god like they're so knives out they like they're so like murder mystery yeah they just got that vibe about it I just love it I was like looking at some of them online as I was doing this story just to see because I've never been inside of one have you no I don't think I've actually been inside the Newport mansions I can though like there yeah they do tours yeah I want to do that and I think like part of them isn't like Salve Regina that campus like some of the mansions are part of it or something probably I think
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Spock. So they moved back to New Jersey to their, you know, this like small, quaint little farm with 2 ,700 acres.
acres no in addition to the nbt yeah just yeah just a couple right past that a few acres yeah but in addition to the main house the property included more than 40 other buildings damn nine lakes nine lakes and one and a half miles of stone walls huh so before doris was born the property had actually been open to the public like they were welcome to come stroll on the grounds there There was a lot of diverse wildlife that could be spotted.
The landscape was beautiful.
It was like visiting a park.
But when the family returned, Buck was way too scared of having the public roam the property while they were there.
I don't blame him. Yeah.
Especially because a lot of interest had peaked in his family.
Yeah, of course. So he closed the property, and it was said he effectively kept the world from his daughter and keeping his daughter from entering the world.
That's tough. and it's like the thing is totally protect your kid at all costs but you can't cut them off from the world i know that's but i understand why that was so hard yeah totally because it's like how do you balance that because i'm sure like especially in that position that's well i was just gonna say like i'm sure every parent feels that to a certain degree like you want to shelter your child as long as you can but then to enter like all the money that they had into it yeah it's scary that's when when it gets like really really tough but i don't know i feel bad like that's a shitty like
i know i'm saying i feel bad for like billionaires i'm not saying that no but i'm saying like that position i feel bad you feel bad for this you're worried about your kid yeah yeah you're like parent to parent parent to parent you can relate on that level so much in common not many more by nine lakes you know so while she was shut out from the outside world at duke farms buck luck doted on his daughter entirely he would buy her anything she could have wanted toys pets ponies but he never really let other children come over to play with doris and on top of that for the first 10 years of her life
i just got super boston right there and i like for the first 10 years of her life kid but she was homeschooled by private tutors so between being kept away from children children her age in play and at school her social skills were lacking to say the least yeah but luckily luckily he came around and in 1922 when doris was 10 her parents decided to enroll her in the brearley school i think that's how you say it it was an all girls private school on the upper east side of new york oh excuse me xoxo gossip girl now i had it right originally originally wrote in, I just said.
I'd originally wrote in.
I had originally wrote in that she became best friends with a girl named Blair and Serena and then they lived happily ever after the end.
There you go. But that's not what happened.
You remember the character Doris?
Yeah. Right? I had originally wrote in that.
Yeah. You had wrote in that.
They wrote in her out of there.
Now school helped Doris dive into different interests and things like music, art, and literature, which those were all things that she really loved to like dive into.
But school didn't do much to improve her social skills she was still getting piles and piles of letters from strangers either making threats to her or begging her for money and she would show them to her classmates very unaware that this was not something they would ever relate to i was gonna say or understand that i'd be like that's wild you want to be friends that's really scary i'd be like i'll help you i want to help you now one friend she did make recalled that doris was quote a smart girl tome girl sardonic and kind of scrawny but then she went on to say she was definitely something of a pariah
among the other kids that's sad it was giving me like um a little princess remember that movie oh my god you know i've been thinking about that movie really yeah for some reason the vibes were similar that's how i felt yeah sometimes you and i are like really like lately i feel like too like i'm like can you just like leave my head for a moment get the fuck out of my head okay I just feel bad because it's not her fault no you know like it's not her fault she was born into I just said her fur it's not her fault she wrote it she wrote in it it's not her fur it's it's not her fault that she was born
into a family of of a billionaire like you know legacy yeah one in a billion chance that's it's it's it sucks that like she kind of she reaps the benefits of it the monetary benefits of it but she's really not everything thing exactly and it's like obviously it's that's really tough for a kid i just feel bad i do too for the kid but sadly things were gonna take a sad turn for doris that is sad because in night sad brought to you by sad in 1925 life shifted really dramatically for her because her father's health started to take a serious decline as she was getting older like into her like 10 11
12 i don't know what the fuck you call those her 10 11 12s yeah the 10 the 11 the 12 pre -teens he was constantly fatigued he was constantly sick but now it was becoming clear that this was a lot more serious than anybody had originally thought oh no and on october 10th john buchanan duke did end up dying from pernicious anemia pernicious yeah damn it's a condition where the body is is incapable of absorbing enough vitamin b12 eek yeah yeah that's rough now doris was a self -described daddy's girl and buck's death death excuse me left a major hole in her life and left her alone with a very cold and very
distant mother oh no and of course a house a full -staffed house of course but the year before he died buck had established the duke endowment with a 40 million dollar donation to trinity college in north carolina where he was from Damn.
After that, the school was redeveloped and branded as Duke University to honor him.
Oh, that one. Some people say that, like, he made them rename it after that, but, like, if he donated $40 million, I think that's fair.
Yeah, I would say so.
I'd want it named after me at that point.
He definitely bought that name.
Like, that is for sure.
You know? Now, after he died, his will left another $65 million to the school, but the bulk of his estate went to his daughter, leaving 13 year old doris with roughly again a hundred million dollars in cash she's flushed with cash and again three billion dollars today so she had three billion dollars in cash damn she on top of that had control of duke farms among other properties wow at that that point she quite literally was the richest girl in the world wow the entire world the world the planet all of it the planet but sadly her inheritance put more of a strain on the relationship she had with her
mother because nanny which i would too resented the fact that her husband had left everything to their daughter can you imagine yikes you marry this man's and like i want my kid to be taken care of or my future kids but like they get everything yeah all those nights we spent together that's it that's a tough they get everything that's a tough hit to take that's right i will say that and what was even harder of a hit to take was there actually ended up being a lawsuit where doris sued nanny over the sale of duke farms because nanny wanted to sell the property but doris wanted to keep it so she
ended up suing nanny and the executors of the will successfully unsuccessfully wow and she kept uh duke farms and the family until she died it was like her primary residence wow look isn't that crazy but like 13 years old and she sues them 13 years old having to sue them yeah and that's and that's so traumatic too like like what the fuck and it's like how do you how do you even come to that that place and you guys just you know like how do you even know to do that yeah and you guys just like go home and eat dinner together after your lawsuit suit gets settled out of court and like who got her
to do that it had to have been somebody i think i don't know because it's like that person must have had a vested interest maybe it was just her though because she she sued her mother and the executors of the will maybe i don't know you're right and she's a very steadfast girlie i mean yeah so that definitely could be it no fast forward a few years from that to the fall of 1930 now doris is celebrating her her 18th birthday with a big old coming out party.
Oh, you've always wanted one of those.
A debutante ball with the white gloves.
Ever since you saw it on Gilmore Girls.
Oh, I've always wanted a debutante party.
Yeah, you wanted to do a fan dance.
I really, really wanted to do the fan dance, y 'all.
Like, I don't know any of the interworkings about anything else, but I really want to do the fan dance.
Yeah, like, you don't want to, like, have anything else to do with it.
You just want to do the dress.
Yep. Probably the food.
absolutely and the gloves and the white gloves i love it gloves now most society women would like have this at this time and love it and all that jazz doris fucking hated this she wanted to go off to college she didn't want to have one of these but nanny was like you are having a coming out party of course like duh you're doris duke now the coming out party was held at rough point which was their new york rhode island no newport rhode island estate that will end up becoming a huge point in this story later on but it marked doris's entrance into high society high society in the world of the elite
and the wealthy american families cha -ching cha -ching which all sounds pretty terrible if you ask me but like the food and the white gloves the fan dance sign me up into it so the coming out party like i said definitely meant a hell of a lot more to nanny than it did to doris nanny was what was a member of what was referred to as the old guard which is just like Like the old high society woman.
The original. It's like how it meant more to Emily Gilmore than it did to Rory.
And Lorelai. Exactly.
Now she took Nanny, she took the rights and responsibilities of society life very seriously.
While Doris, on the other hand, saw the responsibilities of all this wealth and privilege she had as an inescapable burden.
At some points, I'm sure.
She probably loved it.
there was probably some uh pretty sick parts of it yeah definitely not gonna lie but at least at least at this point in her life she felt like it was an inescapable burden yeah i'm sure there were definitely those moments of being like oh cool everyone wants to kidnap me yeah exactly that's a burden and i'm sure it was very difficult to make friends that were not that you of her station exactly that like you don't know if people are just being friends with you because you got money exactly you know now she would tend to hang out doris with a different crowd that nanny deemed the lower class oh
and she called them undesirables wow i call you an uncrustable that's like a compliment though so don't even call her that but these people what what flavor though what's not a great flavor remember when i got them to tweet at me about the grilled cheese flavor that was a good time i need uncrustable to please bring back that flavor i never had that but i'm intrigued by it it was greasy and beautiful and everything that dreams are made of if you ask me and it also probably sent me into like a very i don't even know like very unhealthy lifestyle down the health highway yeah that was the backwards
yeah yeah exactly With my light sauce.
But these people, who were the undesirables to Nanny, were Doris' friends.
They were the musicians, artists, and writers, and they would all hang out at the Harlem Jazz Clubs.
Oh, that sounds cool.
Which Doris discovered in her late teens and absolutely fell in love with.
She was a big, big fan of jazz.
Ba -da -bow. There you go.
What did the Watch What Craffens guys called a lady?
Oh, Trixie Monaco. Trixie Monaco.
go listen if you love bravo go listen to watch what happens ronnie and ben are chefs and we love them we do um now try as she might to express her disinterest in the high society life that was so important to her mother doris could not escape the responsibility or the pressure of her wealth and the most important expectation that she was faced with was finding a husband that her mother felt was a good match for her status and social position.
Now Nanny tolerated Doris's art and musician friends from the Harlem nightlife, but they would literally never do for a husband in Nanny's eyes.
Yeah. Now Nanny had her eye on another man in Doris's life.
I don't know why I'm getting southern because they're not even southern.
But this guy was Jimmy Cromwell.
He was an aspiring politician and he was also the sole heir to a fortune that was made from investment banking king with uh one jp morgan i wonder if he was also related to um the family from halloween town it's entirely possible i couldn't find any valuable sources on that information but you should look into it i'm gonna look into it i think you should you know do you know marnie do you jenny halloween is cool okay what's the scale is it benny the skeleton yeah benny he's He's my favorite.
But Cromwell, he sounds like a big creep.
He's not like Benny.
That's not great. He had his eye on Doris since she was just 16 years old.
And he was off 33 at that point.
And I, oop, I'm out.
What's that? TikTok's out.
We're like, that's weird. But as they got older, the relationship was actually encouraged by Nanny Duke.
I hate that. And friends of the Duke family.
they all felt that quote a merger of the two families would strengthen their position and consolidate their wealth ew so they were like yeah it's totally fine that he's been hitting on her since she was 16 will it make us richer let's go let's go girl let's go so jimmy and doris they actually did end up marrying in 1935 doris was 22 and he was 39 okay the ceremony took place in the library of the duke's new york home at east 78th street which i'm pretty sure is where she was born oh um and was described by the new york times as unostentatious and somewhat mysterious which is uh the theme of my
wedding thank you i like the somewhat mysterious somewhat not entirely mysterious totally but somewhat but there was a little mystery in there and i like that unostentatious unostentatious i like it yeah i feel that i'm into it they're like tom dom sandoval and rachel oh their age gap i was like in what way their age gap that's true in the creepiness of it all there you go yeah now doris had made it a point to shield herself from the press throughout her entire life and that's why the wedding was as private as it was she was very very private and i feel about too now she and jimmy made a quick
exit after the wedding they headed to the haba and they got on board an italian ocean liner that was bound for egypt which was where they would spend their honeymoon oh okay right my friend actually just went to egypt hi holly and it looked so fucking beautiful and now i want to go to egypt let's go to egypt okay cool now in the years before jimmy and doris were married nanny was really confident like i was just saying that his wealth was sufficient she seemed to think that his intentions with doris were genuine she never thought he was a gold digger until the stock market crash of 1929 Uh -oh.
Then she said, I think he might be a gold digger.
You know what? She started getting a little skeptical of Jimmy boy there and his motivations to marry her precious daughter because the financial crisis had caused his family to lose a large amount of their fortune.
So he was kind of clinging to his relationship and it seemed to be a way of keeping up appearances and maintaining a lifestyle that he'd gotten used to.
Oh no. Versus like being in love.
Yeah. But still, no matter how right Nanny might have been about this man her constant criticism of jimmy only seemed to push doris closer to him uh -oh it was like like doris wanted to spite her mother any chance she could get of course defiance was kind of a pattern in her relationship with her mom whether it was the coming out party the wedding celebration or even the marriage if nanny thought it should be one way doris was like cool i'm gonna go the other way i'm so sad that nanny was not like a radical nanny i know and i mean radical in the way that's like radical raw like rad she's so rad
radical yeah i was like she kind of seems a little radical i think she maybe was yeah yeah i'm mad that she's not rad yeah yeah i mean she's a product of her environment she sure is but you know you have a choice yeah don't be a shit don't be a bitch yeah don't be a bitch don't be a bitch she's like what did you just say young lady now Now, another theme emerging in Doris' life was her desire for privacy and this tendency to avoid the press.
This was probably a behavior that grew over time, I think, and most likely came from Buck's last words to her.
On his deathbed, he had told her, never trust anyone.
I mean, solid advice.
Those were his dying words to his daughter.
I can't even. I can't even.
Like, a 13 -year -old daughter.
Solid advice. Solid advice.
Like, definitely don't trust anyone.
I wish she had said like and if you're going out if you're going out that's all you're like i gotta throw something important in here that is solid advice to throw out at the last at the buzzer like also like go see what you want to see in the world i mean i hope an i love you was thrown in there so i'm sure it was i bet it was because he loved his daughter i'm sure maybe maybe that's what it led up to maybe it was like this whole thing like i love you i never want anything to happen to you fly fly little bird it was all these wonderful things then it was like follow your dreams travel travel
the world but don't trust anyone and that was the end of it maybe i'll give my kids that advice when i die i think it's good advice i would i'm already already handing out that advice to everyone i know yeah trust anyone don't trust a hoe i'm not giving it to people i don't know because i don't trust anyone well especially if you don't know them but anyway she was probably right to guide to guard her privacy because like we know since she was a child it was this endless line of strangers asking for money threatening her safety or prying into her personal habits to write about them in tabloids
sounds awesome and even her mom kind of had a way of slipping in and out of those categories especially when it came to one money and two how doris's choices choices would affect her social status oh it was like nanny had i think she had good intentions at her heart but it was also always layered with like well how will people think of us i think it's literally and i know like it's like emily gilmore it's like emily gilmore it literally is it's like you there's times when you're watching that show and you're like fuck yeah Emily yeah like you love them like I know you love them I know you want
what's best for them and then there's times where you're like God Emily what the fuck shut your mouth and it's always to do with like appearances yeah and like what is like socially acceptable and I think it's just like that's that's the that is a product of how they were raised totally unfortunately the time period the society they were in it's so surface level though all of it and that's what sucks is like doris was looked at on such a so like a surface level from her own mother yeah no it's true and and the reason why i think she was like like she did love doris and had good intentions is because she
was really really worried about doris getting together with jimmy yeah so worried so that she actually um before they were officially married hired a private detective to dig into jimmy's life hell yeah which i think was again a mixture of caring a lot about her daughter but also like what could come out yeah i'm making sure that you you aren't gonna tarnish my legacy here exactly now it could have tarnished her legacy in her eyes because the investigation for one reason or another led her to believe that jimmy was a gay man and that would would not be acceptable for her daughter which is lame
yeah now of course she warned doris but i can literally picture doris rolling her eyes into the back of her head and not giving a shit yeah because she's like cool mom bye and she probably thinks at this point that her mom's gonna say anything to make it so that she doesn't marry jimmy now whether it was because jimmy wasn't necessarily interested in doris physically or not uh signs of a troubled marriage began almost almost immediately after they got on the ship headed for Egypt.
According to one biographer, quote, they had delayed sex to enjoy the ship, but they retired early.
She slipped on a negligee.
Jimmy asked his bride what he could expect in the way of annual income.
Wow. Those are two different things.
She's trying to go a little spicy and celebrate the mirage.
Of course. The marriage.
The mirage. I was gone for a minute, but I'm back now.
now i literally died like actively actively died you might have heard some of that actually i don't think we cut it entirely possible that you heard me die slightly yeah but i'm back now she's back here i am so yeah she's trying to get a little spicy and he's just focused on his yearly projections yeah i just i'm just getting ready for taxes which like imagine like the night after you get married or like a couple nights after you're like oh like let me put on this outfit where I look a little cute like let's go and he's like so like how much money are you gonna give me annually I'd be like I fucked
up can you sign this tax form for me like god like yeah that's not good yeah so this night uh laid the foundation oh for a marriage where Jimmy constantly wanted more more more when it came to money and Doris wanted more more more when it came to intimacy it was not ideal but at the same time a divorce would have been a scandal so hey brought it back they went went on as a married couple for a good while with both of them just maintaining affairs on the side, trying not to get caught by the press.
Wow. Yeah. Now, the marriage finally did fall apart, though, in early 1943, and it was a messy divorce.
Oh, no. Doris told the press that Jimmy was a reckless spender and he was constantly demanding more money.
And Jimmy pointed the finger back at her and revealed a ton of the affairs that she had had throughout the years.
Oh, Did she say like, same to you?
Pretty much. You too.
Direct quote. But the court did end up siding with Doris, probably because she had more money and influence.
Probably. Jimmy got literally nothing and he would spend years contesting the divorce and still begging for more money.
Oh no. So the divorce from Jimmy, it really marked the beginning of a new era for Doris.
New year, new her. That's right.
She dove deeper into her interest. She started traveling more.
She took tons of trips abroad to Europe.
and in the last days of world war ii she was like going there constantly wow and she fell in love with the culture and of course the men we love a european of course the men of course the men she kept going back more and more and she was so inspired that she started writing and eventually took a position as a foreign correspondent for major newspapers across the country like bad bitch i didn't know that about her nor did i until i started looking into it you know those photos sitting in your phone the ones that make you smile every time you scroll past them well at smallwoodhome .com they believe
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Now, it was during one of her European trips that she met Porfirio Rubirosa.
And I did look up how to say that and I'm doing my best. You're like and I nailed it if I do say so myself.
Maybe. I think I did all right.
Now he was a Dominican diplomat and actually the former son -in -law of a Dominican dictator.
Oh. So he was a little messy.
Well he was a little messy.
A little bit of a lot going on.
Now Rubirosa was usually on the fringes of violent political movements and a lot of people were really fucking terrified of him.
Yeah. One because he was perfectly fine being aggressive and two he had major major scary scary political ties eek and also he had a reputation as a popular ladies man oh look at that he's like super handsome it's a i don't think he was the best human being but like sometimes the worst human beings have good faces they sure do he'd actually been linked to our girl marilyn oh miss marilyn monroe damn and also to rita hayworth and veronica a lake oh wow so he really like he got around yeah now when doris met him in paris in 1945 he was still actually married to popular french actress danielle derue
i believe is how you say it or dare you uh but he was oh my i just looked is it a little hot in here it's unfortunate i know right not not the kindest man no but he was still married to this french actor actress danielle derue i believe but he was completely taken with doris and she felt the same way toward him.
He was to her sexy, dangerous, exciting.
Quite frankly, everything that Jimmy was not.
All right. Now, it was no surprise that not long after meeting, Doris and Rubirosa started an affair that would eventually lead to marriage.
Okay. Now, by the time she married him, she knew it was highly unlikely that she was ever going to build a relationship on love and mutual respect because she was one of the wealthiest people in the world.
That sucks. And unless she wanted to keep having her heart broken over and over again she just kind of had to accept that most people were attracted to her at least partially because of money okay now this was 10 000 million gajillion percent true of ruberosa he was already known to swap one opportunity or partner out for another if it was for more money oh which is sad yeah so and this is fucking wild doris put up 1 .5 million dollars for her relationship with him whoa a million dollars went to danielle with the expectation that she would divorce her husband and walk away which she did holy she
was like she was like all right she was laughing straight to the bank literally laughing to the bank yeah and that was in 1947 damn and then uh doris and rubirosa were married in september of 1947 wow Wow.
Now, in true Doris fashion, the ceremony was understated.
It took place, I think this is really cool, it took place at the Dominican consulate in Paris and there was just a handful of guests there.
And at that time, actually, Doris was working as a fashion correspondent for Harper's Bazaar.
Look at Doris. So a lot of the guests were co -workers from the magazine.
Now, she definitely entered the marriage with eyes wide open, but it also didn't make it suck any less that her husband was almost entirely motivated by her money.
Yeah. Within days of the wedding, he was already making demands and clearly expected to be showered with expensive and extravagant gifts, including an apartment in Paris and an airplane.
Just a little stuff.
That's what I got drew for our wedding.
I was going to say just stuff that you expect when you get married.
Here's a chateau and a flying device.
You know, love you.
Love you. Mean it. Jokes.
Now things Things couldn't go on that way, obviously, and be, you know, hunky -dory forever.
So as the years went on, Doris started getting more and more jealous and resentful of her husband between his demands of her and his flirtations with other women.
So she would try to work on things, but he saw it as her making unreasonable demands of his time.
So it just forced a greater wedge between them.
Now, to get away from all of that, just as she had done with her mother when she was was a teenager doris hid from the status and wealth and the quiet cafes and nightclubs in paris in the post -war years paris was getting more and more popular with americans and jazz musicians so that was drawing a huge huge crowds of people who either knew nothing or didn't care about high society that's kind of cool yeah it's awesome yeah so she could just be another american jazz enthusiast when she was out with them instead of the richest girl in the world oh that's cool yeah so after spending more and more
time in the club she actually started sitting in with the bands playing piano and like socializing with the people there who liked her for who she was that's wild not what she could buy them yeah her newfound popularity and acceptance at the jazz clubs of Paris only exacerbated the tension between her and her husband though at first it started as her getting away but then it was like I'm sure her eyes started to open and she was like what the am i doing yeah she's like why am i settling for this i can have this life yeah just as easy yeah so the final nail in the coffin came when ruberosa was named dominican republic's
ambassador to argentina which meant that he was going to have to move to buenos aires oh what a terrible predicament to be what a terrible one doris she didn't want to move there for multiple reasons and she was especially concerned over fears for her personal safety yeah so she decided to stay back in the US.
But she brought or she bought him yet another airplane that he could use whenever he wanted to see her.
My God. Which was. To buy an airplane.
And she was like, for whenever you want to see me.
But he like barely came home to see her.
Of course. Sad. Yeah.
So the distance clearly made things worse.
And by 1948, her second marriage had completely fallen apart.
Yeah. They were barely together a year.
But this time she had planned ahead and they had signed a prenup that actually i read in one source the u .s government helped pen this holy shit yeah um but it allowed for a quick divorce but also unfortunately required her to pay him 25 000 a year for the rest of his life holy shit which she did until 1965 when he was unfortunately killed in a car accident wow now allegedly their relationship actually never truly ended did sexually at least oh and she was so upset over his death when he did die she spent several days in bed oh wow so like it's like so she really loved him she really did really
cared for him i think she loved in a big way for sure that's sad and i think it's also like apparent how much she loved him because this relationship i think changed her fundamentally really she knew that everybody wanted something from her and throughout the year she had learned to use that to her advantage advantage but i think years of trying not to let that bother her were starting to catch up yeah that makes sense she was spending more and more time at the jazz clubs and the lifestyle in her case was a bit of a catch -22 she was learning more and more about the music and the culture and like
having really a lot of fun with that but at the same time she started to experiment more with drugs oh now this scene eventually led her to joseph joey castro he was a young jazz musician he was gaining popularity in LA and in 1950 Doris invited him to stay with her in Hawaii she had part of the house renovated to accommodate musical performances you know as one does I was just gonna say that's what you know that's what everybody renovates their house yeah like my boyfriend's in a band so let me just renovate part of my house for him of course now she had cultivated a lot of relationships with the people
in the jazz scene and a lot of these people she she considered close associates but joey was one of the few people that she actually considered a close friend they shared a passion for music but he also understood things about her that a lot of people had overlooked like she struggled massively with social anxiety and he understood that and like could help her yeah it was actually the reason that kept her from actually pursuing a career in music or performance was her social anxiety that's sad i know social anxiety sucks it does i get social anxiety me too i think everything's very difficult just
like varying degrees oh yeah and i think hers was like on the higher end of the spectrum yeah for sure but eventually their friendship you know joey and doris here grew into a romantic relationship oh and in 1953 doris actually bought a home for them in la where they could unwind unwind this is my unwinding home i I was going to say you just have a home to...
I unwind in that one.
We make music in that one.
We unwind there. We sometimes eat cereal in this one.
This is where we watch The Price is Right.
And this is where we watch The Spooky Stories.
Exactly. Imagine. Imagine.
Now, according to her biographers, Doris's purchase of the house in LA, quote, implied a commitment to Castro.
But she had only made the decision to buy the place after her on and off again relationship with another man novelist lewis bromfield appeared to be going nowhere yes now the end of the affair with that man's freed up more of doris's time so she refocused that time to her relationship with joey now in 19 or by 1954 joey had actually assembled a small jazz combo with doris and they were performing together in small clubs clubs with doris in disguise so she couldn't be recognized oh my god she is like duke silver ron swanson bitch i literally wrote that oh my god i love that i literally wrote it
i also said i couldn't help but picture her wearing a sia wig and playing a saxophone right yeah right i literally all i could think of was duke silver oh my god i'm obsessed i love it so it wasn't quite as stimulating as her last relationships but this relationship with door or with joey excuse me was comfortable and familiar for doris and also allowed her to pursue her love of music yeah it was a bit out of convenience i think it sounds like it unfortunately again it was a lifestyle that put doris in contact close contact i'll say with a lot of questionable characters yeah including those who are more
than willing to sell her drugs drugs she's getting a little more on drugs throughout this time period which we all know doesn't lead to wonderful wonderful things no always now by 1956 doris's world had undergone a dramatic and unexpected transformation in a very short amount of time she had gone from introverted socialite to secret jazz performer and this is where i wrote it's giving duke silver she was literally traveling around the world at this point performing in some of the most prominent jazz clubs of course still in disguise and while she may have been privately living out her fantasies
she was like i think she was really going through it i think mentally and then i think the drugs didn't help yeah and she couldn't ignore the reminders of a lot of past failures starting to creep in around her that year lewis broomfield died and it was the first of several events that hit doris really hard oh after he passed she learned that ruberosa because this was before he had passed yeah had married socialite and her former rival barbara hutton uh -oh and the disappointments and heartbreak caused her to retreat even further into her secret lifestyle which made her dive even further into drug
use and casual sexual encounters oh so by the early 1960s her relationship with joey castro started to become more strained because of that yeah mostly Mostly because she was also reluctant to fully commit to their relationship.
Joey really wanted to get married, but Doris was like, no. And according to her cousin, Pony Duke, Doris loved Joey's music and appreciated his companionship, but, quote, was not about to get married again.
She didn't want to get married again.
She'd been scorned twice.
I was going to say, yeah, you can't really blame her.
So instead, she, quote, orchestrated a strange sort of marriage ceremony.
that was not really a marriage ceremony to appease joey so i think she low -key like made a fake wedding i was just gonna say so what you're saying it seems to me like he was very much under the impression that they were legally married but to her it was like nah this is like not for realsies wow okay now the sham marriage did ease tensions for a little bit but the fights were going to start back up again yeah and by the end of their relationship the arguments between doris and joey had not only increased in frequency, but also intensity.
Uh -oh. They usually ended violently.
Oh no. And things took a dramatic turn for the worse in June of 1963, when during one of these intense arguments, Doris grabbed a butter knife from the kitchen counter and allegedly stabbed Joey in the arm.
Oh, that's not a normal fight.
She stabbed him, y 'all.
That's not a normal argument.
That's, if you are grabbing any kind of knife to stab your partner in the midst of an argument, it's time to walk away yeah any kind of weaponry that's being um brought into an argument is really that that's the time to think about it yeah i would say so that's the time to really take stock of what's happening here seek guidance yeah you know you know everybody needs it occasionally that's not good so by 1964 doris and joey had become completely estranged and he's not not not guilty in all of this either yeah but he and we'll get there he was totally cut off from the life of luxury that he'd been
enjoying with doris for a decade at this point so as a result he filed a shit ton of lawsuits and divorce suits demanding financial compensation anywhere from five thousand dollars to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars oh i guess it just like depended on how he felt that day yeah you know yeah but he also wanted part ownership of the house in la Now, among other things, his suits allege that they had been married twice, first in Rhode Island in 1956 and then again in Philadelphia in 1960.
But in response, Doris filed for and was awarded a restraining order in May of 1964, which barred him from ever publicly claiming to be her husband and effectively ended his pursuit of a quote -unquote divorce.
Oh, damn. Or any kind of compensation.
Because they were like, you're not married.
now he had allegedly broken her jaw at one point in 1966 after she pulled the plug on his record company which she owned what the fuck the morning after she fled to Hollywood to go to Newport with her designer and a man that would soon be at the center of this story Eduardo Eddie Torello uh -oh now Joris's life before this point had always been kind of like a fairy tale whether she liked it or or not, her wealth, her money, and her privilege shielded her from a lot of the more difficult realities in her life.
Yeah. But they were only going to protect her for so long, and she knew that.
Now, that knowledge and that wear were starting to show in her personality.
Anytime a relationship ended, and especially because they usually ended badly, she would become harder and tougher on the outside and more depressed on the inside.
And at the same time, her experimentation mentation with drugs, paired with her mental struggles, that was starting to make her a lot more impulsive, and that was becoming more clear, especially in the violent fight she was starting off.
I mean, she literally stabbed her sort of husband.
Her fake husband. And while she hopefully regretted those arguments and altercations, they were not going to be the last time she became violent.
Oh no. And the next time should have come with greater consequences.
Eek. So even though she felt more and more comfortable with the la nightlife through joey during the 1950s she was kind of retreating further into herself and at the same time she was surrounding herself and surrounding herself with what her cousin referred to as a colorful group of hollywood types oh which included eddie tarella and i would also assume that he was probably referring to her butler bernard lafferty and this other woman shandy hefner who doris actually ended up adopting ding when shandy was like 35 and doris was in her like 60s or 70s um it's like a sidetrack story that i can't
get into here because we'd be here for hours okay but please go look into that yeah oh yes i will it is wild wow okay yeah okay yeah i would definitely accept that information definitely read some of the biographies that i'll link in the show notes and the variety variety vanity fair articles written about her but right now we're going to focus on eddie okay now it's crazy though like that that happened wow yeah I think there's a whole A &E show about adopting adults they should feature Doris oh my okay so anyways Doris met Eddie Torella in LA in 1959 this was before she had um cut Joey off and that's
how they met he was an aspiring interior designer and occasionally moonlit as a nightclub singer which I think is really fun moonlighting as a nightclub singer that's so like old Hollywood wood yeah bada boom it's also how lady gaga like got big i'm pretty sure you go but then she used to sing in nightclubs yeah probably wasn't she on the hills oh my god yeah she was yeah i think that's when she was starting to get like getting her outfit together on an episode yeah you're not wrong when she was singing like poker face i think that's a deep cut yeah i want to watch the hills now yeah but eddie he
had played some of those same venues that joey had played because remember Remember, he's also, like, a singer guy.
Oh, yes. And Joey had learned that Torella's real passion in life was for design.
And while they were still together, Joey told Doris about Eddie because it just so happened she was looking for an interior designer.
Ah. Of course. She's rich. Look at that.
So, it was Joey who suggested she take a chance and hire Eddie.
Literally the only thing that Doris and Eddie had in common was that they had both grown up in New Jersey.
It started and ended there.
I feel like that's like the ultimate in common thing, though.
It's like if you're both from Jersey, I feel like it's like, that's OK.
That's it. I think so, too.
Yeah, actually. Right.
I just I don't know why.
You'll hit it off. It'll be great.
Yeah. I think you'll get each other.
It's not great here.
No, but they they did seem to sort of get each other.
I think Eddie got Doris a little more than Doris got Eddie, but I think she got him to a degree.
Cool. Now, by all accounts, Eddie was a charming, popular and super, super talented dude.
in high school his classmates actually referred to him as playboy of the western front wow which like wow i'm obsessed with that who are these high school kids that came up with that well like high school kids were like way better back then that was like the 40s and 50s i feel like they all had like transatlantic accent accents and they were just like hey yeah these are like high school kids that like had cigarettes rolled up and for sure like which like don't smoke smoke cigarettes but like back then it was cool yeah you know yeah so after graduating from dover high school he had pursued a career
as a dancer and an artist but at the same as he was like trying to pursue that he got drafted into world war ii and when the war ended and he returned home he worked on sax fifth avenue oh designing hats for people like may west oh who's she yeah crazy i love her now then he decided to move out to la where he started gardening and he found work with famous clients like alan ladd and peggy lee oh yeah he was like in touch with big people he was an incredibly hard worker he really never had any trouble finding a job especially through word of mouth of these very famous influential people yeah it
was just that he struggled to maintain an interest in one job or one field for a long time by the early 50s he was actually though becoming pretty successful as a designer in hollywood but because he refused to To join a union, it limited the work he could get, so to make extra money, he was singing in the nightclubs where he met Joey.
Just moonlighting. Moonlighting.
Now his first work with Doris was when she had him remodel and design the 20 greenhouses at Duke Farm.
Now this is actually, I thought you would be all over this.
She wanted him to revive them, and she wanted them to be used as like a public attraction, because she opened the grounds up again.
Oh, okay. Okay. Now, Eddie impressed the shit out of her when he redesigned each greenhouse into a garden that represented a different ecosystem or part of the world.
Shut the fuck up. That's awesome.
How fucking cool is that?
I want to see that.
Right? Damn, I love a theme.
I love a good theme.
You guys know we love a theme.
We love a theme. Oh, that's so cool.
Transforming gardens that That represent different ecosystems. That's cool.
Like that's a cool mind right there.
Yeah, that was a mind at work.
Yeah. So she was like, oh, let's fucking go.
Like you're my guy.
Yeah. She was super excited to dive into her love of gardening because she actually was an avid gardener.
So with the completion of the project, she was like, let's go.
But she had also gained a new companion.
And at this point, her relationship with Joey Castro is falling apart and then it ultimately does fall apart.
So she wasn't interested in a romantic relationship with a man, she just missed companionship, which she had found in Eddie.
And he was the ideal companion because he was a gay man.
He wasn't after her for like love or anything like that.
She knew that he would stick by her and not lose interest in her sexually, and at the same time, he was funny, talented, and also nice to look at.
now according to Pony Duke Eddie quote was the mixture of masculinity and taste that Doris Duke found so very attractive and the perfect ornament for Doris as she aged I was like wow damn but her dramatic and theatrical aesthetic was also a perfect match for Eddie because he was just starting to make a name for himself in the theater and film industry very multifaceted man okay oh he was a handsome man too wasn't he?
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now like i know really good just like he looks friendly doesn't he does got a friendly face i like his face i'd give him a little smooch but probably not because he'd be like get away from me i'd give him a little a little smooch a little smoochy kiss if you watch bluey smoochy case now before long doris had actually made space for eddie and all of her houses and apartments which there's a lot of them yeah he always had his own room wherever they went he could have have privacy when they traveled together but aside from him getting to like sleep in his own space doris was starting to dominate
all of his time because remember she doesn't have a man's right now and she i she's somebody that needed to have someone yeah i could i'm starting to see that about her she treated eddie like a romantic partner in all ways other than sexually and a lot of times she would actually get jealous if she wasn't feeling like his first priority but like Like, they're not together.
Yeah. So it's like, uh.
And that was a lot for him.
And by the mid -19 - Oh, sorry.
I just kicked you in the foot.
Just kicking my feet.
Foot five. But by the mid -1960s, her demands were starting to wear on him.
He was on the payroll and happy for the work, but the expectation that he would be at her beck and call every hour of every day was getting exhausting.
It was a little above his pay grade.
It was. Yeah. One of those friends, one of his friends said he hated those nights, the nights that he worked for her and had to spend time with her.
Oh. No. But as tired as he was, he was trying to stick with it as long as he could because he had bills, he had debt, and working for Doris paid a pretty penny.
Yeah. Now, as she got older and started cutting more and more people out of her life, Doris was actually starting to seem a lot more the generation before her that she used to hate.
Yeah. Her mom's generation that treated working people, that people that were working for them, like the help.
That's how she was kind of starting Yeah, she was getting that attitude.
And that's something that Eddie was starting to really hate the most. It was making it harder and harder for him to stick around.
And he also felt like he was getting pulled in another direction.
He really wanted to make a name for himself in Hollywood.
And it actually seemed like that dream was headed in the right direction.
Because by 1965, his work in LA was finally paying off and he had landed a job doing the set design for The Sandpiper, which was starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
who are they i don't know to relative unknowns yeah just like credited briefly yeah then in 1966 film producer martin ran ransohoff is that how you say i think that's how you say that sounds good to me him he offered eddie the production design job on don't make waves which was a movie starring tony curtis and sharon tate oh sharon tate yeah and it was due to start production that fall now this opportunity was like exactly what he was hoping for and it was proof to him that he could make it in hollywood he was starting to make strides and it was also proof that he could get out from doris's thumb
but doris lost her gd mind when eddie told her about the job offer yeah i was thinking it would happen he was sure that she was going to fully freak out if he told her that he had already accepted the job which he had oh so instead he told her he was only considering it now doris was begging him not to take the job and she thought of every last thing she could offer him to stay but he just wasn't committing one way or the other so she kept begging and pleading for months and months and she invited him to come to her family estate in newport rhode island for the fall remember rough point from the beginning
of the story okay here's where it becomes a pinnacle point of the story now eddie did finally cave and he agreed to send the fall in rough point with doris and that was a decision that was going to change his life forever oh no eddie arrived at rough point early in october of 1966 and he had still planned actually to work on don't make waves but at the time he was really behind on taxes so when doris offered him more money than he was making before he couldn't refuse he had to go there with her his plan was to get the work done for doris that fall and then return to hollywood and begin building
the career that he wanted and he was finally going to be free so it's really unclear what happened on the evening of october 7th but by most accounts doris's mental state was not very good that night eek and the months leading up to that fall at rough point she had been drinking a lot more than usual she was still using drugs and she was experiencing very intense mood swings and depression that related to her failed relationship with joey and then the most and then the recent death of rubirosa this is when he did die and it was that was among like many other things too now she could have she for most
of her life was used to getting what she wanted she even meant she could get from them what she wanted but at some point they were going to leave her and move on to someone else and now it seemed like that was happening with eddie and she simply couldn't take it yeah now that fall she had rented a 1966 dodge palera station wagon to use while she and eddie were were in newport on the evening of the 7th when she was not in a very good headspace they got into the station wagon a little after 4 p .m they were going to actually meet with the president of the newport preservation society because doris wanted
to discuss her interest in funding a project that was actually going to preserve a lot of newport's historic homes oh she was like i want to pay for that that's pretty cool yeah it was also probably a really good tax write -off yeah Yeah, I would say so.
For one reason or another, Eddie and Doris were arguing with each other even before they headed out, and they were still said to be arguing as they were getting into the car.
And when they got to the bottom of the driveway leading to the road, Eddie put the car in park, pulled the parking brake, and hopped out of the driver's seat to open the large iron gate so they could pull out.
I'm very nervous. You should be.
OK. As he turned around to start walking back to the car, he saw that Doris had moved from the passenger seat to the driver's seat where she disengaged the parking brake shifted the car into drive and quote pressed down so hard on the accelerator that she left tire -wide gouge marks in the gravel oh my the car sped forward struck eddie which sent him flying up onto the hood then she tapped the brakes he rolled off the car and landed in the middle of bellevue avenue avenue holy shit she stopped the car momentarily while eddie laid screaming in the middle of the road and then she hit the accelerator again drove
forward crushing eddie under the front tires oh my god and dragging his body across the street under the weight of the station wagon oh before the car jumped onto the curb on the opposite side of the street drove through a fence and came to a stop when she finally hit a tree holy shit so days later an autopsy would show that the first impact had broken eddie's hip which had sent him up onto the hood but the second impact caused crushing injuries to his lungs spinal cord and brain which killed him almost instantly damn the police arrived on the scene no more than five minutes later it said where they
found doris in a daze behind the the wheel of the car.
Edward Angel, who was the first officer to arrive, he remembered seeing a small amount of blood coming from Doris's mouth and his report describes that as a steering wheel injury.
But other than that, she was physically fine.
As he approached the car, she jumped from the driver's seat and just started frantically pacing back and forth and then she ran back into to her mansion looking for someone named ed even though she knew he was underneath the car she had just driven over him oh no now once they were able to calm her down police escorted her to the new nearby newport hospital where she was treated for facial cuts and severe shock but other than that she was literally fine oh no so the next day this is very upsetting it's horrible yeah the next day the local paper the newport daily news ran with the headline doris duke
kills friend and car crash the article was like very light on information and noted that police chief joseph radis or yeah radis quote could not be reached for comment on the case and reporters were told that he would not be available that day for questions it would actually be two days before the police chief made a statement to the press about the death of eddie tarella and when he did it was to inform them that an investigation had been conducted and it was determined that eddie's death was the result of an unfortunate accident oh yeah that's okay that's what we're going with yeah okay according to
doris who wasn't interviewed by the police until over a day after the incident okay she was in the passenger seat when eddie got out to open the gates she slid over into the driver's seat to Oh, my.
Cars usually, like, don't leap forward on their own.
I was just going to say.
I've never had that experience.
The old car leapt forward defense.
It's very similar to dog ate my homework.
Yeah, that's not a great defense.
fence now the only other information that the police was the police chief was willing to report on was that as far as he knew eddie and doris were quote on very good terms no they were not no no the hell they were they were literally arguing as they got into the car and he was planning on leaving and she was begging him not to oh no now two days after he responded to questions from the newport daily news a larger press conference was held and the police chief told reporters that Torella's death was definitely an accident quote and quote as far as we're concerned the case is closed how though quick
hush hush bye -bye how though is what I need to know yeah how though yeah so Doris may have been able to use her money to hide from uh any kind of responsibility or public scrutiny in the past but times have changed and people cared a lot less in in 1966 about this random American socialite.
Times they are a -changin'.
They were pissed by the lack of information on the case.
Yeah. And they found it extremely suspicious.
In Newport, the press were super critical of the way that this was handled and the way that the police released information, and they felt actually like the police chief had handled similar incidents poorly because in the years past, he had written off crimes like this that involved the rich summer residents.
Ah. Mm -hmm. Shocking.
Even though people were upset and critical over the investigation, it still seemed like whatever had happened at the gates of Roughpoint were to remain a mystery.
And as far as Doris Duke was concerned, Eddie Torello's death was nothing more than a tragic accident and she went on to live the rest of her life saying so.
That is shocking. Shocking.
That that just was like crescendo, crescendo, crescendo.
Then it's like, no, it's fine.
Oh, no, we're not done yet.
like but i mean like that part of it oh yeah just that it's like it ended oh and this big crazy thing happened and oh my god but everything was fine it was an accident yeah it's just like you're like oh don't you know that car sleep forward you should watch out you don't even have time to be like oh no because like oh oh okay it's just an accident okay right we're just gonna live the rest of our lives that's fine insane what the fuck so the following year eddie's five siblings filed a wrongful death suit against doris in the superior court of rhode island they were seeking 2 .5 million dollars
in damages and they alleged that doris had quote negligently and carelessly operated the car that led to their brother's death which is literally the truth damn now the case actually eventually made its way to the supreme court of rhode island in 1973 but the justices mostly sided with doris and the family only received and i say only because she's a a billionaire yeah seventy five thousand dollars wow that's it wow like who did you pay off i'd be so pissed they were also treated terribly by her legal team they made it seem like eddie was like worse like they made it seem like he was worse than doris somehow
what the fuck yeah very Very strange.
And in the, sorry, I messed up.
Hold on. Oh, silly me.
What I meant was it was worse in the way that the family was treated by the legal team during the trial.
Particularly when it came to their brother's legacy.
They described him as an opportunist who hung around famous people hoping their talent and fame would rub off on him.
Wow. I'm like, no, he didn't need it to.
He was incredibly talented on his own.
I was just going to say, like, let's just ignore the fact that he had any success on his own.
Yeah, absolutely. Actually didn't need Doris and was fully intending to leave her employment.
Yeah, no. His niece later told reporters she killed him twice.
She destroyed his body and then eviscerated his memory.
Yeah. Which is so sad.
That is so sad. And throughout the trial, investigators privately and publicly tried to get any information from Doris about the incident or the accident.
Excuse me. But by then, she had completely shielded herself with lawyers and doctors that made it impossible to get anywhere near her.
But by the early 1990s, she was a fucking shell of herself.
After Eddie's death, she pulled even more into herself and she became almost entirely a reclusive.
And more and more people were cast out of her circle.
In the end, there was only a very small group of doctors, lawyers, and quote unquote hangers on who hoped she was just going to leave them something in the will.
When she turned 79 in 1992, allegedly her butler talked her into getting a facelift. And that started a slew of health problems. It would go on to include a broken hip, a knee replacement surgery, and a severe stroke in the fall of 1993.
That shit is so scary.
Right? Like the stuff that can happen from plastic surgery like that.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, and you hear about like implants and stuff, like the scary health problems that can come from it.
It's crazy. Watch Michelle Visage's documentary on that.
It freaked me out. I was like, okay, neville.
But on October 28, 1993, Doris Duke did die of a cardiac arrest at 80 years old.
She had no children and no spouse to leave her enormous fortune to because she had a huge falling out with the woman that she had adopted.
Oh, I forgot she adopted a 30 -something year old yeah but they had a huge falling out and that's like its own whole separate story that involves her very shady butler holy shit but she left a lot of her like enormous fortune to the butler oh i knew you were gonna say that i knew it and a lot of people speculate on his motivations and whether or not he had something to do with accelerating her death i'll say oh boy yeah but that's like laird and it's for another time velocity so when doris passed away most Most people figured any revelations about the more mysterious aspects of her life had gone
with her, especially the accident that murdered Eddie Torella.
Yeah, that's a big one.
Yeah, but that all changed in the summer of 2020.
Whoa. When journalist Peter Lance published an article about Eddie Torella's death in Vanity Fair.
I love Vanity Fair.
I do too. I actually just signed up to get their hard copies too.
Nice. Because I had online access and then I got like signed out for some reason and I was like, oh, give me hard copies.
Yeah, they have great articles.
They do. do now peter lance he had actually been born and raised in newport and he remembered not only eddie's death but the controversy and the suspicion surrounding it a lot of people in town believed that there was a cover -up and the story he wrote prompted a flood of comments and memories from newport's residents who pretty much confirmed the suspicious nature of the quote -unquote accident oh man one man in particular would take peter down a path that would eventually uncover what what many accept as the truth about Eddie's death.
What? Bob Walker was a 13 -year -old paperboy living in Newport when Eddie Torello was killed.
And on the afternoon of the quote -unquote accident, he was out on his route delivering papers near the Rough Point mansion when he heard a commotion coming from the direction of a massive estate.
He would later tell Peter, quote, I initially heard the argument and screaming of two people.
And he said, because it was usually such a calm and quiet area, it was very easy to hear that these people were definitely pissed off at each other he said the argument was followed by silence and then quote the roar of a motor the crash and the screaming of a man oh no now according to bob he could hear the accident happen and rush to the scene arriving well before the police did and when he got to the gates he said doris was just getting out of the car and was staring down at the wreckage when he rode up on his bicycle and he he asked if he could do anything to help because he had no idea what was going
on doris turned to him pointing and screaming you better get the hell out of here oh that just gave me chills and then she began what he described as a kind of crouched pacing in front of the car like she was trying to block his view of whatever was beneath it and she kept yelling at him get out of here now now it was literally like walking around like an animal like an animal exactly like an animal hiding his view so bob was completely shaken by this and as far as he could tell she wasn't hurt so he got back on his bike and got out of there because he had that's all he had seen yeah he's like
what the fuck but when he got his bundle of papers for delivery the next day he saw that headline about the accident and he read the article but everything in the paper didn't match what he had seen and heard that afternoon.
So he ran home to tell his father and explain what had happened the day before.
But he got a very different reaction than what he was expecting.
When he got home and he told his dad everything, his dad grabbed him by the shirt and slammed him up against the wall and told him, now you listen to me, son.
You will never ever tell anybody this story again.
You will not tell your brother.
You will not tell your friends.
And of all people, you're not going to say anything to the police do you understand me do you understand me what Bob Walker did not understand because his dad was usually completely adamant that his children always tell the truth but Bob said he was so serious that it was scary and he didn't want to say anybody didn't want to say anything to anybody about what he had seen until years and years later and by that point everybody had more or less forgotten about eddie torilla holy shit so years like way down the road years later as his dad was declining in health bob asked his dad why he reacted
that way and this is what his dad told him you know son at the time when you told me the story i recognized that you could have shown motive and intent i was concerned that you as a key witness could have gone or could have been doing your paper route on the ocean drive and a truck could have come up on you from behind the life of my child was more precious to me than that woman on bellevue avenue that's why i reacted the way i did oh my god so basically he was saying like that woman has all the money in the world and all the power and i was protecting you you a little informant anything could have happened
to you or our family and i love you more than i love anyone in this world oh my god i got full chills because at first i was so mad at bob Bob Walker's dad, when I first read it, I was like, what the hell?
See, and in my head, I was like, he's scared.
He's scared. Like, he's scared that something is going to happen to his kid.
And he's like, I don't give a fuck about anybody else.
Right. I care about you.
When I found that out, I was like, I'm literally crying.
Because I would be the same way.
You don't give a fuck about anybody else.
Exactly. I'm protecting you.
Exactly. Damn. And the thing is, even if Bob had gone to the police and spilled everything that he had seen that day, it wouldn't have made a difference.
No. because doris was spending all that money restoring the homes exactly so it wouldn't have made it the only difference it would have made was putting bob in danger exactly so but literally the reason why eddie's death was covered up is because she had so much money in power and she was doing so much for the community that they were like okay it didn't happen like it will take blood money for you to restore these homes damn so as peter dug deeper into bob Walker's story, he found that there were other people who had come to similar conclusions about Eddie's death, including a police sergeant
who had been assigned to the case at the time.
His report concluded there was no way this could have been an accident and that Torella's death was most certainly intentional.
And he also learned that right after the accident, Doris hired the county's acting medical examiner, the one who was literally filing the autopsy and the death certificate as her private doctor wow conflict oh i was just gonna say can you say and there were other people in town including police chief redis there whose lives and personal fortunes seem to drastically improve in the weeks and months following eddie's death holy shit aka she paid a shit ton of people yeah it certainly looks that way allegedly so peter allegedly allegedly.
Peter definitely took all that information to the police and they sat on it until they felt enough public pressure to reopen the case.
Whoa. And they especially felt that pressure after Peter Lance's book Homicide at Rough Point which I definitely recommend reading was published.
Now unfortunately the reinvestigation of the case was just as doomed as the initial case and just after a few days of review days the Newport police determined quote that new evidence presented in the book is insufficient to warrant further investigation i love that they were like we've thought about it for 48 hours and we decided that after that long think on it we're not even gonna look into it yeah like that cool in a statement to the press town administrator said it remains the opinion of the newport police department that there is not sufficient evidence to draw any firm conclusions as to
the motivations of mrs or miss duke for For that reason, it appears that this will continue to be a case that will have to be left to the court of public opinion.
Yeah, that's what everybody wants to hear.
So they essentially said, you can think whatever you want and you're probably right.
But according to us, nah.
We're going to agree to disagree.
But as far as Peter and pretty much all of the residents of Newport, Rhode Island are concerned, the police had all the evidence that they needed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Doris Duke intentionally murdered Eddie Torella.
but it seemed that even 30 years after her death nobody wanted to fuck with the duke family name wow trust no one trust no one and that's the really really sad story of the death of eduardo that is very sad right damn what a story a bunker story what a life what a legacy right what a downfall yeah like shit i definitely recommend like looking even more into doris because i'm sure that felt like a very long episode i think it might have been but there were so many things that i ended up skipping over because we could have just been here for like hours and hours that's so that's a wild story she
lived a crazy ass life yeah and at the end of it she wasn't a great person allegedly allegedly you know you know maybe the car hopped forward you know maybe the as cars do they do leap forward sometimes allegedly allegedly Allegedly, that's all there is.
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