Doris Duke: The World's Richest Girl Who Died in Suspicion

The Fallen Scepter

Doris Duke inherited a fortune before she knew its cost. Behind the palaces and jewels was a life shaped by grief, suspicion, and locked doors. Doris Duke was known as “the richest girl in the world,” a tobacco heiress whose childhood in the Gilded Age’s long shadow became a public fairy tale with