The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke

Dont touch that girl, shell burn your fingers, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Dukes billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her life, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother whom she sued 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. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny,