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Lance, Peter.
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Duke, Doris, 1912-1993.
Tirella, Eduardo.
Lance, Peter.
Celebrities -- United States.
Private investigators -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
Murder -- Investigation -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
Heiresses -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
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Lance, Peter.
Duke, Doris, 1912-1993.
Tirella, Eduardo.
Lance, Peter.
Celebrities -- United States.
Private investigators -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
Murder -- Investigation -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
Heiresses -- Rhode Island -- Newport.
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Homicide at Rough Point / Peter Lance.
by
Lance, Peter.
Tenacity Media Books, 2021.
Call #:
364.1523 L246h
Subjects
Duke, Doris, 1912-1993.
Tirella, Eduardo.
Lance, Peter.
Celebrities
--
United States.
Private investigators
--
Rhode
Island
--
Newport
.
Murder
--
Investigation
--
Rhode
Island
--
Newport
.
Heiresses
--
Rhode
Island
--
Newport
.
ISBN:
9780996285599 (hc)
9781736363607 (trade pbk)
Description:
412 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"The untold story of how Doris Duke the richest woman in America got away with murder"--Cover.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-385) and index.
Summary:
"In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire. Minutes later, she crushed him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon as they were leaving Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate in
Newport
, RI, the storied resort. In a murderous quid-pro-quo, the local police quickly ruled the incident 'an unfortunate accident' and Doris began giving a fortune to
Newport
, restoring 70 colonial-era homes that quickly turned it into a tourist Mecca. In 2018, Lance, who started his career as a cub reporter for The
Newport
Daily News eight months after Tirella's death, began a re-examination of the case and proved that the mercurial tobacco heiress got away with murder. In a riveting, doggedly researched book with 105 ill.
--
including never-before seen forensic files
--
Lance, a five-time Emmy winner, rewrites history and finally restores the reputation of Eduardo Tirella, a gay Renaissance man and war hero whom Duke went to great lengths to erase from the history of her troubled life."--Publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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