She also told me that Duke was much more taken with Ferdinand Marcos, who was gravely ill in Honolulu, than she was with his wife. The Untold Truth of Stephen Hawking's Son - Ti. . Duke was the only child of J.B. "Buck" Duke, who founded the American Tobacco Co. and later endowed Duke University in Durham, N.C. Chandi was into Eastern cultures and all that stuff, and so was Doris. And then he was going to A.A., and he did very well in A.A., as far as I know. And she was so frail. (Burns dismisses reports that he was once a Chippendales dancer: "Not that I haven't been asked. According to a half-page biography released by Howard J. Rubenstein Associates, Bernard Lafferty was born in Ireland in 1945 and immigrated to the United States more than 20 years ago. There were four witnesses, including Dr. Charles Kivowitz, a fashionable Beverly Hills internist. "She used to come and see me and just cry," says singer Peggy Lee, who was friendly with Tirellaand who would later employ Bernard Lafferty as a butler. In 1968, she established the Newport Restoration Foundation, with Jacqueline Onassis as vice president. Duke scoffed, "Oh, come on. They were disciples of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the spiritual master of the Hare Krishna movement, and they had been unofficially married in a ceremony in India in the 70s. ", Others insist that Heffner's growing involvement with Burns created new tensions and was the root cause of Duke's disenchantment with her adopted daughter. "People always think that if you can have 200 people to dine at home without moving the chairs around and you don't, you must be very sad," says Claus von Blow. According to Heffner, Duke suffered heart palpitations in Moscow and was afraid to be alone, so for the rest of the trip they shared hotel rooms. Like Heffner, Amar quickly became involved in the running of Duke's houses, business affairs, and charities. "She looked great," Warnecke says. "She got us our first booking, in that black church in New Jersey. Then someone new entered the small Doris Duke family: James Burns, a 25-year-old former Marine and martial-arts enthusiast with a notably "buff" physique. I knew from the beginning she was a son of a bitch." Friends of Duke have intimated that the heiress had become fearful of Heffner's behavior, and eventually locked her out of the Hawaiian estate in early 1991. It must end, Drugmaker Eli Lilly to slash insulin prices, Stocks slip as stubborn inflation raises rate expectations, TikTok to set default daily time limit of 60 minutes for minors, Column: While workers struggled during the pandemic, CEO pay went up, up, up, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? Chandi lives on the horse farm now and operates a very modest charity called the CDH Foundation, with total assets of $ 2 million. Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes. She was so distressed about losing the baby. Chandi Heffner was "planted" on Doris Duke by Imelda Marcos. ", "When one of Doris's love affairs ended, there was always great drama," says her friend Consuelo Crespi. He had been recommended by Ron Oldenburg, a Honolulu lawyer who handled immigration matters for the employees of both Doris Duke and Imelda Marcos, and hired as a bodyguard for Heffner when she was hospitalized for severe sinusitis in February 1989. Warmer storms could cause problems, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Hyundai was poised to become Teslas top contender. There was a deadly side to Doris. She was having a real whirl." She told me that her parents did not approve of her lifestyle, and that they'd cut her off from everything. This went on almost every meal. Chandi Heffner choked back tears as she talked about Doris Duke, the worldly and restless tobacco heiress who legally adopted her in 1988, when Heffner was 35 and Duke was 75, and cast her out less than three years later. This only fueled rumors about his sexuality further and . Meanwhile, Heffner is holed up on her Hawaiian ranch. For many years she sang in a black gospel choir at the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, and left its minister, the Reverend Lawrence G. Roberts, $1 million in her will. Doris said, 'Do you have time for a drink?' One evening Steve Levy said that Miss Duke wanted him to administer a urine test on me. She grew up near Towson, an upper-middle-class suburb of Baltimore, and graduated from Notre Dame Prep, a private Catholic girls' school, in 1971. . . Heffner paints a sedate portrait of their life together, with Doris retiring to her music room, Chandi dealing with the employees and both women sharing vegetarian dinners. Then the U.S. government blindsided it, Column: Uber and Lyfts deactivation policy is dehumanizing and unfair. The reason it didn't last long was she didn't want them. That was a going-out-of-your-way gesture." Incredibly, she was awarded a $65 million settlement. ", In either March or April, Demopoulos said, he received a call from Irwin Bloom, who told him that he had been fired by Duke. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. On April 5, 1993, one week after Heffner had sued her, Duke signed her last will, cutting off her adopted daughter in brutally explicit terms: I am extremely troubled by the realization that Chandi Heffner may use my 1988 adoption of her to attempt to benefit financially under the terms of either of the trusts created by my father. During this period, Duke also plunged into three large-scale public projects. In 1985, she met Chandi Heffner, a 32-year-old Hari Krishna devotee. Until Doris Duke's death, this would be her principal residence. He was later retried and acquitted. "She designed those houses and she saw to every color," says Newport artist Richard Banks. The rest of the house was dark, which was odd. "She told me she was bored silly, and the palace was so froufrou. Shortly after Duke's 80th birthday, in November, Nelson Seabra saw her at C. Z. '", In 1947 she married again, but handed the groom a prenuptial agreement at the altar. Chandi Heffner is a small, sturdy woman with thick black shoulder-length hair and bone-white skin. He was the legendary Latin lover Porfirio Rubirosa, the former son-in-law of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. One night in August, Banks dined alone with Duke at Rough Point. But on Nicolas mothers side, things get more interesting. In 1985, she met Chandi Heffner, a 32-year-old Hari Krishna devotee. It was clear that something adverse was going on in the latter part of 1990 in Hawaii. "You know, fate is strange. It would be the last time the paparazzi caught her, and, true to form, she slapped Rossellini for not telling her the photographers would be there. You're Arden. '" Id love to be a fly on the wall when David and Victoria Beckham meet their sons fiancees family. Duke last made news in 1988, when she posted the $5.3 million bail for her close friend Imelda Marcos, the former Philippines First Lady. This gives her the air of philanthropy. They named them Princess and Baby. The billionaire believed that Chandi was the reincarnation of her dead kid. Lafferty served. And all of a sudden I started hearing, 'The food is cold.' Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. Her lawyer, David Keyko, said yesterday that in. Her last will is dated April 5, 1993, was drawn up by Katten Muchin, and was signed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Two years later, against her mother's wishes, she married James Cromwell, who was 16 years older than she, and whose family had lost its fortune in 1929, and embarked on a two-year honeymoon through the Middle East and Asia. The gossip at Mortimer's was that Duke was furious with him for talking to Stephanie Mansfield. ", Burns began working out with Duke on a regular basis. I tried repeatedly to get in contact with her. On Thursday, October 28, 1993, Duke died at Falcon's Lair. The two women developed a deep bond almost instantly. Heffner told me she had left "the farm community" and was living with Gordon Damon, a real-estate agent whose house was near Duke's Diamond Head estate. ", Though she still would occasionally joke, "I haven't had any greens lately," which Nancy Cooke de Herrera says was Duke's code for sex, she seemed to be settling down. Chandi Duke Heffner, the 39-year-old former belly dancer and Hare Krishna devotee who was legally adopted by American Tobacco Co. heiress Doris Duke in 1988, now claims the reclusive 80-year-old billionaire reneged on her promise to make Heffner the sole beneficiary of her estate. ", After Thanksgiving, as she had for five decades, Duke left for Hawaii. When he went to pick her up, Lafferty told him, "Always keep me informed, so that I can be sure everything works." ''Doris and I had been in the Gobi Desert together, and we found out they were becoming a threatened species." Heffner was also responsible for hiring a new accountant, Irwin Bloom, and a security consultant, Steven Levy, both of whom had worked for Nelson Peltz. Usually something came in the mail that she wanted to discuss, because Chandi was taking care of her financial affairs. ", Rybak says that Lafferty got off to a good start at Duke Farms. I said, 'Doris, get out of that house. This was not a frivolous woman, either. "Whenever she walked into your room, she made the room," recalls Mercedes Bass. . In May, a New York judge approved a plan to send the bulk of her estate to charity. Musks master plan for Tesla is built around sustainable energy economy, What to expect from Elon Musks third master Tesla plan, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. According to financial accounts shes posted on her website, she has about $700,000 parked in CDH to help India. 'Doris Duke really was the last Chinese empress, the last of a type that doesn't exist anymore. Tom Ford. Nine months earlier, she had sued her adoptive mother for breach of contract, claiming that she had promised to maintain her in the Duke lifestyle for the rest of Heffner's life and to make her the principal heir of her estate. We were joking around, because we both had bad knees. On an employment application Lafferty filled out for the Pavillion Agency in New York in September 1986, he said he had worked at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia from 1972 to 1983 and at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City from 1983 to 1985. The next day I got a phone call from Doris to thank me. As she spoke, she leaned forward like a child who is eager to please, but when she sat back and let her lawyers take over, her face lost its animation and she seemed older, harder, drained. On the last day of the seminar, he spent the afternoon with Duke at Shangri La. How do we get rid of her? Duke was spending the spring, as usual, at her 2,700-acre Duke Farms, in Somerville, New Jersey. Marcos has said that she and Duke were friends of almost 20 years, but others say that they met in the late 1970s through Franco Rossellini. She was not on steroids in the latter half of 1990, and this was not a mood swing. The two camels were right outside the dining room on a blue tarpaulin. A. once a week wherever we were. He also said that she had lent $600,000 for his company, Health Maintenance Programs, Inc., in 1989; the loan is to be converted into stock, according to the will. Subscribers have complete access to the archive. . I have come to the realization that her primary motive was financial gain. And along about March, I sent flowers and candy to her California home. "Most of them didn't want to leave. In the morning, Bernard didn't come down until 11:30, and he was a mess. According to her New York Times obituary, the cause of death was "pulmonary edema resulting in cardiac arrest." Keyko said that $800,000 was paid to Heffner on Friday. Each evening she would return to Duke Farms or her Manhattan apartment in time for dinner alone on a tray. This Grand Marnier was so old the labels had been written by hand. But by the following summer she was noticeably declining again. After Bloom was fired, Protas was told the loan was being reviewed. Inspired by this trip, they bought the most spectacular piece of property near Diamond Head in Honolulu, on which they built a Mogul-style fortress and named it Shangri La. Chandi Heffner is a small, sturdy woman with thick black shoulder-length hair and bone-white skin, Thick black eyebrows set off her striking indigo-colored eyes, She was wearing a dark-blue Paradise on show: Inside the exotic retreat of tobacco More Than $65 Million For Adopted Duke Daughter BILLIONAIRE'S HEIR OUT OF PLACE Column: 15 minutes of fame flies by. Duke believed that Heffner was the reincarnation of her daughter, Arden. . If anyone has news on Chandi from the far reaches of Hawaii, drop us a line at showbiz411@gmail.com. The agreement removed the heiresss former butler, Bernard Lafferty, as co-executor of the estate in return for $4.5 million and $500,000 a year for life. Contrary to Heffner's version of events, he told me that he had prescribed anabolic steroids for Duke for her knee problems in late 1989 or early 1990. Call your pilot tonight and leave immediately and go to Los Angeles and get checked up.' He named both his private Pullman car and his 80-foot yacht after her, and surrounded her with bodyguards. Duke was twice divorced and had no other children. If you want, we will give Bernard another chance, or we will get another butler. ' Peltz, a Michael Milken protg, was beginning his rise to the top of the junk-bond heap; he would soon take over Triangle Industries, then National Can and American Can, and be worth $400 million by 1989. Later on we would sleep together and Doris would come in most mornings and sit there on the bed with us and talk. The Sands says that Lafferty managed the theater, which headlined such stars as Bill Cosby, Joel Grey, and Rita Moreno. . ", Heffner wryly noted that Bernard Lafferty, accompanied by a bodyguard and chauffeur, had sat through her depositions wearing a five-carat-diamond earring, a diamond bracelet, and a diamond watch. When she was a cult member of Hare Krishna she got adopted by a Billionaire Heiress of a Tobacco company and Philanthropist, Doris Duke when she went to Hawaii in the 1980s. She was very intelligent and very together. ", "I'm crazy about Bernard," says Oatsie Charles. Who can help student-athletes cash in? Doris Duke was murdered. But theyve hit a snag, Review: A reimagined Secret Garden fails to flower anew at the Ahmanson Theatre, Elizabeth Holmes cites her new baby as a reason she should avoid prison for Theranos scam. Doris wouldn't take a pill unless she really needed it. Doris loved it. Duke. Miss Duke's will went on: "I am extremely troubled by the realization that Chandi Heffner may use my 1988 adoption of her (when she was 35 years old) to attempt to benefit financially under the . In a peculiar arrangement, in 1988, the 76-year-old Duke legally adopted the 35-year-old Heffner and bought her a $1 million ranch in Hawaii, where the two lived together as mother and daughter. So I fixed another tray and brought it upstairs. And then Chandi said something that took me aback: 'Bobby, I can't understand why you have a friend like that and yet you're struggling to have a dance publication. . Two years later she bought Falcon's Lair, the Beverly Hills house where Rudolph Valentino once lived. Lafferty had been working for Nelson and Claudia Peltz for the previous seven months, and Rybak says, "The Peltzes put him in a 28-day program. (The hospital said that Bernard Lafferty was a patient from July 1 to July 14, 1987.). He rushed to complete what was then the most expensive house on Fifth Avenue in time for her birth at home, on November 22, 1912. James Burns, 32, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, claimed Chandi Gail Heffner Duke owes him half of the $66 million she was awarded after Duke die in 1988. Heffner had asked him to have dinner with her and Gordon Damon, and he had told her to pick him up at Duke's front gate. She got right up like a trouper and fell right down again. Chandi Heffner Duke passed away on 1940. When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. So we let him start, and we had problems with the alcohol and did our best to put him in a situation where he dried out. For the Beckhams, this marriage is like sinking the best goal ever. "She forgave Rubi everything," says Reinaldo Herrera, even his subsequent marriage to Barbara Hutton. So did Imelda. He could barely speak.". Her telephone was not listed in the Los Angeles area. Guest's in Old Westbury: "She came by helicopter. I suspected that it was Bernard doing thiskeeping the food cold. Franco Rossellini assured everyone that he was all for it. . Lee told me, "Ten or 15 years ago, I went to sing in the Versailles Room at the old Bellevue, and Bernard was the manager of the room, and we became friends. ". Imelda stayed for a week, I think. She took daily tap lessons from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson at the Cotton Club, and for years studied ballet under Cyd Charisse's ex-husband, Nico. Heffner takes credit for everything from improving the dairy herd at Duke Farms to arranging the sale of Duke's gold deposits in Switzerland. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. . You felt that she was going to break. Doris and I used to go fairly regularly to see the president in the hospital; she would give him reiki treatments.". ), By then the center of her social life was Franco Rossellini, the extremely amusing and gay Italian movie producer, whom she had met about 1975. Meanwhile, Bernard said he wasn't feeling well and went back up to his room. When Doris was only 14, she successfully sued her mother to stop her from selling Duke Farms, the estate her father had created out of New Jersey flatlands, including a 30-room mansion with an indoor pool and indoor tennis courts, artificial lakes, and man-made hillocks. Because it was her major incapacity; there really wasn't anything else wrong with Doris. In the proceedings, Heffner formally renounced her natural parents, certified that she was not consenting to be adopted out of financial considerations, and legally changed her name from Charlene Gail Heffner to Chandi Duke Heffner. I feel unsure of myself physically. "There was a rumor that she did it deliberately. He was going to A. "He wanted a settlement," says Nancy Cooke de Herrera, "but you could not get a nickel out of Doris if you came at her the wrong way." . After the war, she moved to Paris and wrote for the magazine Harper's Bazaar . Miss Duke, 75, adopted Chandi Hefner, who owns ''extensive property in Hawaii,'' and has been living with her for three years, attorney Donald A. Robinson said. ", A few days before I interviewed Heffner, an item had appeared in Cindy Adams's gossip column: Robert Ibrahim Farrah, an instructor of Middle Eastern dance, who says he introduced Heffner to Duke in 1984, claimed that Duke had come to fear Heffner. Chandi called Steve Levyhe did security for Doristo find out what to do. Heffner Duke, adopted in 1988 when she was 38 and the heiress was in her 70s, could not be reached for comment. In later years she did have problems with her hearing and with her legs, but nothing major. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. As the organization grew, she set up a program exclusively focused on serving people in rural communities where money, jobs, health care, and education are scarce. Only one other trustee was named in the will, Marion Oates Charles, Duke's longtime summer neighbor in Newport, Rhode Island. Instead, she was cremated during the weekend following her death, and her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean off Shangri La on November 17, 1993, by Bernard Lafferty and Johnny Gomez, along with the hibiscus leis she loved. But she had a dramatic change in her lifeand it was weird. One week later, Doris Duke stunned the world again by adopting Chandi Heffner at the Somerset County Court House in Somerville, to which the two women were accompanied by Donald Robinson. This whole thing is such a shock." "When we were together," Heffner continued, "when things were really great, Doris was in wonderful shape. After repeated requests for an interview, I received the following statement through the New York public-relations firm representing him: "My duty to Miss Duke is to maintain her privacy even though she is gone.". And, like Heffner, after following Duke from Duke Farms to Rough Point to Falcon's Lair to Shangri La for more than six years he was suddenly given a few hours to pack his bags and leave. "Bernard got out of the hospital. "He was so attentive," Banks says. We took him to Newport. She also asked to be buried at sea. And I didn't sense any antagonism between Chandi and Bernard." She didn't like medicine in general. Brooklyn Beckham, whos 21, has announced hes marrying Nicola Peltz, 25. Banks never saw her again. She was very happy doing that.". Dukes father, James Buchanan Duke, founded American Tobacco Co. Heffner, 42, was adopted by Duke in 1988, but after the two had a falling out, Duke took Heffner out of the will. I came back clean as a whistle. Newport police declared it an accident, and her friends still swear that it was. A member of Heffner's family said yesterday that it is likely Chandi Duke Heffner, who legally changed her name, will accept a settlement for several million dollars. Ron Protas, the artistic director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, says, "Doris was very shy, and never thought enough of herself, because she was so beat up emotionally by her father. She told me during a break that she had studied reiki, a Japanese healing rite, and she said, 'Maybe I could help you with your knee.' This month, Chandi Heffner's lawyers, Ben Michel of Riker, Danzig and David Keyko of Winthrop, Stimson, will file her objections to Duke's will in New York State Surrogate Court, accusing Bernard Lafferty of "undue influence and sequestering." . ), HBOs Hit Show The Last of Us Finally Vaults Over 1 Million Viewers on Main Channel. "Sometimes people are attracted to the thing they fear the most.". Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. I used to tell her, 'You know, Doris, some people do like you for yourself. In a settlement signed Thursday by Manhattan Surrogate Court Judge Renee Roth, Chandi Duke Heffner, 42, dropped claims to the $1.2-billion estate and dropped a breach-of-contract suit. He went to Sarasota High School. According to Robert Farrah, the director of the Ibrahim Farrah company, for several months in the late 60s she took private belly-dancing classes with him every morning for two hours in New York and then flew from LaGuardia to Detroit, where she had rented a motel room near the airport and installed a piano for her afternoon singing lessons with Aretha Franklin's father. "She out-Leona Helmsleyed Leona Helmsley," Duffy said of Heffner. When tobacco heiress Doris Duke died last October, she left a will that shocked even those who had known her best. We would go into the kitchen, just the four of us. She thought it was very amusing. "That was quite an event. They had done the whole kitchen togetherthe carpentry, everything. Heres a description of Chandi (seen in the picture here on the right, with Duke and Imelda Marcos) from her website. Chandi Heffner established her organization on a small scale by undertaking humanitarian work in the field. "Elvis made whites interested in black music," she once told me, "which was very important, because race is the biggest problem we have in America.". Of course, many of the sources for these allegations are people who were left out of the will, or cut out of the will, or people who hope to eventually receive grants from the Duke foundations. The couple lived together from 1990 until 1993. They were putting up a curtain rod together. Born on 1940 to James Henry Roberts Cromwell and Doris Duke. And he confirmed that he had been named an executor when Duke revised her 1987 will in March 1991. View their profile including current address, phone number 808-882-XXXX, background check reports, and property record on Whitepages, the most trusted online directory. ", Heffner denies that she had had any previous association with Imelda Marcos. When Duke was 27 years old, she delivered a premature baby daughter who died just 24 hours after being born. I tried to see her the following week when I was in California, and there were about a dozen times since then that I called when I made trips to California, where I would simply get a response on the other end of the line that was: 'Miss Duke is doing well. I said, 'Doris, do it, I think it's a good thing.' And that's how the relationship evolved. We'll travel together. In 1969, socialite C. Z. He was cooking and she was serving. I called the California home and the other sites many times. He felt deeply grateful to Doris, as I did.". I do feel like I'm being drugged. "At the beginning of 1991, she placed an increasing reliance on me and Bernard," Demopoulos told me. Nanaline worshiped Society, and she disapproved of her tall, awkward, studious daughter. She has also been involved in equestrian sports and was the owner of the horse Authentic, whose rider took home the Gold Medal in show jumping for Team USA at the 2004 Athens Olympics. It was a really loving daughter-mother relationship. Duke died last October, leaving an estate reported to be between $750 million and $1.3 billion and lengthy obituaries which focused on her husbands and lovers, her houses in New Jersey, Rhode Island, California, and Hawaii, her collections of Oriental and Islamic art, her $5 million bailout of Imelda Marcos, and her perplexing relationship with Chandi Heffner. "But she thought everybody was after her money. It wasn't until the following winter, however, Burns told me, that he became romantically involved with Heffner. I'll go to dinner with them. Charles became so concerned about Duke's condition that she called her and asked if Heffner had been "giving her something, I don't know what"even though Heffner had been out of the picture for a year and a half. (Duke had a similar fascination with spiritualism: she gave $100,000 to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the 60s; fell under the spell of Norbu Chen, a pseudo-Tibetan lama, in the 70s; and left $500,000 to the Self-Realization Fellowship.). She had had several leg operations, after a riding accident, but she participated in the seminar. "I said, 'What's wrong?' Heffner also said that as next of kin she would have requested an autopsy, but she was never officially notified of Duke's death, and by the time she learned of the cremation, it was too late. They maintained a familial relationship until 1990 when Doris Duke disinherited Heffner. Chandi Heffner told me that Duke confided the truth to her: "It wasn't Cromwell's, and it wasn't her lover Alec's. She's a very nice girl, really first-rate, and she will keep Doris's foundation going in the futureyou know, not a law firm but a human being. "Rubi" was also presented with a string of polo ponies and a house in Paris. Sources at Duke's estates, however, portrayed Heffner in a different light. She was ahead of her time. The next morning, the day after Valentine's Day, James Burns remembers, Duke told Heffner she had a dentist's appointment and left the house with Bernard Lafferty. Heffner almost broke down again. There was a gradual onset of a depressed relationship between Doris and Chandi, starting about the middle of 1990 and going progressively downhill. She was wearing a dark-blue turtleneck, old Levi's, cotton socks, and scruffy moccasins. . Chandi Heffner In 1984, Doris met a woman named Chandi Heffner in Hawaii. . While Lafferty was hospitalized, Rybak says, "Doris said to me, 'Tom, we are going to leave this up to you. Also at Duke Farms, she constructed a series of 11 greenhouses containing elaborate recreations of English, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, and other gardens, which she opened to the public. "I was not aware of his drinking problem when I placed him there, but I did inform Chandi [before sending him to Doris Duke's]. Chandi sued Duke's estate. ", "Doris wanted the things money couldn't buy. ", James Cromwell maintained that it was not his child, and friends assumed that it was Cunningham-Reid's. I know a lot of bull dykes. Surrogate Court Judge Wilfred P. Diana asked Duke if she understood that the adoption "creates a relationship between you and Miss Heffner as if she were born to you in wedlock," and Duke said yes. . And the servants were absolutely bizarreponytailed, rings, sandals ". . After testy negotiations with local authorities, she finally shipped the pieces to New Jersey and installed them in her indoor tennis court. 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