Doris Duke
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Doris Duke was an American billionaire tobacco heiress, philanthropist, and socialite. She was often called "the richest girl in the world". Her great wealth, luxurious lifestyle, and love life attrac
Duke in 1951
Duke created the Italian Garden to showcase sculptures that her father had collected, such as this replica of Canova's Three Graces
Duke with then-husband James H. R. Cromwell, January 1940
James Buchanan Duke
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James Buchanan Duke was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the invention of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing techniques, and his involvement with Duke Univer
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…and animals, the performing arts, wildlife, and ecology. Duke was born in New York City, the only child of tobacco and hydroelectric power tycoon James Buchanan Duke and his second wife, Nanaline Holt Inman, widow of William Patterson Inman. At his death in 1925, the elder Duke's will bequeathed the majority of his…
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James B. Duke House on Fifth Avenue, New York, as seen in 2010
Statue of James B. Duke in front of the West Campus Quad, pictured in July 2008