The Richest Girl In The World - The Extravagant Life And Fast Times Of Doris Duke
This revealing unauthorized biography of the famed tobacco heiress supports the adage that money doesn't buy happiness. In 1925, according to the author, 12-year-old Duke lost the one man whose love she trusted when her father, hard-driving magnate Buck Duke, died. as is, 'according to' refers to dad's death, not author's reading of daughter's life Raised by a cold, aloof mother, she looked fruitlessly for emotional sustenance in marriages to men interested only in her wealth: womanizer Jimmy Cromwell and shady Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa. Both unions ended, and she embarked on a series of turbulent affairs with fortune hunters and hangers-on. Drawing on interviews with Duke's former servants, friends and acquaintances, Washington Post reporter Mansfield paints a convincing portrait of a discontented, eccentric, dictatorial, stingy and bad-mannered woman desperately searching for perpetual youth. This depiction is likely to be a hit with followers of the rich and famous. Photos not seen by PW . BOMC alternate.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.