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Doris Duke

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Profession
Family Member
Died
Oct 28, 1993
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
New York City NY
About
Tobacco heiress and prominent philanthropist. The daughter of James Buchanan Duke, she established Duke Gardens in New Jersey (not to be confused with the Sarah P. Duke Gardens on the North Carolina campus of Duke University) and managed the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Family
Her grandfather, Washington Duke, started a tobacco monopoly after the Civil War, which her father inherited and passed along to her when she was twelve years old.

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