But New Englanders associate her most of all with Rough Point, her Newport mansion visited each year by thousands, who tour the stately rooms while guides lavish praise on the late billionaire.Īdding to this largely laudatory portrait is a new biography by author Sallie Bingham, The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke, which devotes only 15 paragraphs to the homicide and continues to perpetuate the theory that Tirella’s death was an accident. Possessed of a voracious sexual appetite, she had rumored affairs with many an alpha male, including General George Patton and actors Errol Flynn and Marlon Brando. Down through the years, she acquired a curious assortment of friends, such as Imelda Marcos and Michael Jackson, along with a trail of lovers.
If Doris Duke is remembered at all today, it is as an eccentric tobacco heiress and philanthropist who, through her civic largesse, helped Newport regain much of its architectural glory of old. Ninety-six hours later, with no inquest-and basing their account of the crash entirely on the word of Duke-Newport police chief Joseph A. Below we've mapped all those and more important locations in the history of the cult that changed Los Angeles forever.With massive injuries to his lungs, spinal cord, and brain, he died instantly. The price of guard dogs rose from $500 to $1,500," according to Los Angeles magazine.Įventually the world would learn about the Manson Family, a cult in thrall to a man named Charles Manson, living together at the remote and abandoned Spahn movie ranch deep in the Valley. Seven murders in two days was horrible, and without any idea of who did it, the city was on edge: "A Beverly Hills sporting goods store sold 200 firearms in two days.
The authorities were stumped their main suspect, a groundskeeper at the Tate house, was released after passing a polygraph test. The following night, in Los Feliz, the "family” murdered two more innocent people, chosen randomly.
As Joan Didion wrote in her 1979 essay collection The White Album, the sixties "ended abruptly” on August 9, 1969, the night the Manson Family committed the brutal and infamous murders of five people at the home of actress Sharon Tate and director Roman Polanski.
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