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Bernard Lafferty (14 April 1945 – 4 November 1996) was an Irish butler and heir to American tobacco heiress and philanthropist, Doris Duke. Duke hired Lafferty in 1987 and named him the executor of her $1.2 billion estate six months prior to her death in October 1993.
- 4 November 1996 (aged 51), Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
- Jim McCalliog (cousin)
5 de nov. de 1996 · Bernard Lafferty, the butler who became a millionaire after the death of Doris Duke, the lonely tobacco heiress he had befriended, died in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 51.
Doris Duke died at her Falcon Lair home in Los Angeles on October 28, 1993, at the age of 80. The cause was progressive pulmonary edema resulting in cardiac arrest, according to a spokesman. Duke was cremated 24 hours after her death and her executor, Bernard Lafferty, scattered her ashes into the Pacific Ocean as her last will specified.
- November 22, 1912, New York City, U.S.
- James Buchanan Duke, Nanaline Holt Inman
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Bernard and Doris is a 2006 film directed by Bob Balaban. The teleplay by Hugh Costello is a semi-fictionalized account of the relationship that developed between socialite heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke and her self-destructive Irish butler Bernard Lafferty later in her life.
In her final will, Duke did something startling: she placed Bernard Lafferty in control of the newly created Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which was to receive the vast bulk of her $1.2...
16 de jul. de 2020 · In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in tony Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, compelling...
8 de feb. de 2008 · Feb. 8, 2008 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. You don’t need to know or care who Doris Duke was, or the part her last butler, Bernard Lafferty, played in her life, to get something good out of...
