7/2/2023 0 Comments Confessions of a heiress![]() ![]() ![]() Born in 1856 to a tobacco plantation farmer, James acquired a license in 1885 to use a new automated cigarette making machine, and was supplying 40% of the American cigarette market five years later. Lance, who began his career as a journalist with The Newport Daily News just months after the Tirella's death, paints a portrait of a privileged existence for the billionaire Duke, living a life of luxury due to the amassed fortune of her father, James Buchanan Duke. Homicide at Rough Point alleges that the world's third richest woman at the time deliberately crushed and killed Eduardo Tirella with a rented station wagon in a fit of rage after he told the heiress he was leaving her for a rising career in Hollywood. Vanity Fair today broke an exclusive story from journalist Peter Lance that makes the case tobacco heiress Doris Duke used her vast wealth to get away with the murder of her gay interior designer Eduardo Tirella in 1969. ![]()
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