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Born on Nov. 22, 1912 in New York City, Doris Duke was the only child of James Buchanan (J.B.) Duke, a founder of the American Tobacco Company and Duke Power, and his second wife, Nanaline Holt Inman Duke. When J.B. Duke died in 1925, he divided his fortune between Doris and the Duke Endowment—a foundation that he established to serve the people of the Carolinas and continues to operate as an independent foundation, headquartered in Charlotte. Because Doris Duke was only 12 years old when her father passed, she inherited her share of his estate over a series of years, beginning with her 21st birthday.

Upon receiving the first installment in 1934, Doris Duke established Independent Aid, Inc., her first charitable foundation. Over the course of her life, Duke gave away the equivalent of more than $400 million in today’s dollars—often anonymously. Her philanthropic interests were wide ranging and included supporting the welfare of women and children, mental health, social work, Native communities, early family pl

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'NBC 10 Biographies' tells life story of heiress Doris Duke

There's been renewed interest in heiress and Newport socialite Doris Duke since the release of a new book about her involvement in the death of a friend at her Rough Point estate in 1966.

NBC 10's R.J. Heim talked to the book's author for a series of reportson the crash that killed Eduardo Tirella.

Duke was the subject of a segment on "NBC 10 Biographies" in 2000, hosted by NBC 10's Doug White.

Watch R.J. Heim's series:

Part 1: Journalist takes new look at 1966 car crash death at Doris Duke's Rough Point

Part 2: Journalist argues death of Doris Duke's friend at Rough Point was no 'unfortunate accident'

Part 3: Journalist alleges cover-up in 1966 death at Doris Duke's Rough Point mansion

Part 4:Journalist claims police helped Doris Duke escape accountability for death at Rough Point

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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist.

In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age ma