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A American Tobacco Company xiv, 10, 224, 226 Adams, Dr. John Payson America’s Cup Series 24, 90, 118, Reading Room Member. Muriel 190, 192, 193 Vanderbilt’s 3rd husband 98 Amory, Cleveland xvii, 59, 184, 327, Alice Tirella Romano et. al vs. Duke 335, 339, 340, 344, 366 Wrongful death suit fled by Angel, Edward, “Eddie,” Patrolman Eduardo Tirella’s 5 sisters & Newport PD (ret.) 3 brothers vs. Te frst ofcer on the scene afer she refused to settle for moments afer Doris Duke $200,000 at a time she was crushed Eduardo Tirella earning $1M a week 42 under the wheels of the 2-ton Almeida, Philippa “Phil” Dodge wagon and dragged Anti-poverty activist who helped him across Bellevue Avenue. the author report “Newport’s Angel saw blood and skin on Back Yard, a 1968 exposé Bellevue Avenue far outside on slumlords preying on the the gates. 94, African American commu- 274, 276, 324, 325, 328 nity in the West Broadway Annandale Farm neighborhood 120 Estate adjacent to Hammersmith Amato, Willie 25, 302 Farm. Onetime candidate Eyewitness to the double murder for “Summer White House. of two sailors at Te Quality Auctioned by Cosmos Bank. Lunch 25, 302 194, 195, 196, 197, 221 American Revolution, Te 17, 114 388 Index

Ann’s Kitchen Baltimore Sun, Te 21, 165, 335 Restaurant run by Al Paranzino Bannister’s Wharf 21 and Dom Capochiano who Barton, William worked as bookmakers for Revolutionary war captain who Raymond Patriarca 81 abducted Gen. Richard 18, 112 Prescott, known thereafer as Arabian, Aram “Te Barefoot General” 188 Duke’s, RI attorney 47 Battle of the Bulge, Te 6, 384 Arnold, Benedict, Governor Battleship Arkansas, Te 19 Great great-grandfather of the Beard, Peter 75, 131, 201, 341 infamous Revolutionary War Bechtler, Donald W. traitor, believed by some to AVIS Regional Claims Mgr. 42 have used “Te Stone Tower” Beck, Mary Ridgely Carter in Touro Park as a mill; a Leading Newport socialite who theory that’s been discredited threw lavish parties at her 113, 117, 351 estate near Rough Point Ashurst Place 22, 25, 27 But she secretly cultivated rats. Associated Press, Te 31, 38, 49, Twice in the mid-60’s they overran 165, 186, 225 Ledge Road 234, 235, 236, Astor, Vincent 237, 238, 240, 241, 243, 244 Reading Room Member 66 Bella Drive: 1436 Falcon Lair xiii Aughey, Robert Bellevue Avenue xviii, 3, 5, 13, 36, Eduardo Tirella’s brother-in-law 38, 43, 44, 55, 56, 57, 65, 66, 45, 136, 276, 277, 336, 382 69, 74, 87, 94, 95, 96, 122, Aughey, Robert Jr. 45 128, 135, 149, 154, 159, 161, Avenue Crowd, Te 17, 70, 87, 162, 164, 168, 173, 175, 177, 213, 236, 274, 300 214, 235, 237, 279, 283, 284 AVIS Rent-A-Car 4, 42, 44, 47, 135 Belmont, August 74 Azorean 28, 113 Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry Azores, Te 28, 112 Belcourt 73, 74, 95, 141, 244, 345 Bennett James Gordon Jr. B Publisher, Te New York Herald. Bailey’s Beach Reading Room Member 66 Spouting Rock Beach Association Benson, John Howard 65, 75, 76, 161, 165 Headed family of stone carvers Ballard, Ford 217 Son of Trinity Church Canon 76 Bethune, Adé Ballard, Lockett Ford Religious art restorer and activist. Canon of Trinity Church who Dated the St. Ursula Reli- helped Doris Duke create quary. 142, 208, 209, 218 Queen Anne Square but later Bingham, Sallie clashed with her as a tenant Author of “Te Silver Swan,” a in one of her restored colo- Duke Biography 11, 292, 294 nial homes 76 Black Pearl, Te 24, 73, 76, 335 Index 389

Blake, William F. Butler, Paula Deputy Sherif 305 Mother of 5 who lived in a sub- Blue Moon, Te. Strip club on standard home at 93 Kings- Tames St. in the 1950’s 18 ton Ave. named in “New- Boys Club, Te 25, 30 port’s Back Yard” 121, 127, Brito, Alda 128, 129, 130 Newport Policewoman 47 Byrne, Peter Bronze Star, Te 6, 129, 138, 384 A former RAF pilot, adventurer Brooke, Peter and big game hunter, he had Writer in catch-and-kill plot to a fve month afair with Doris muzzle Joe Castro. Found Duke in 1967, eight months Doris with a broken jaw. 105, 108 afer Eduardo’s death. Brooklyn South Homicide 12, 45 In an interview for this book he Brown, Clem said that just before he lef Pelham Garage, AVIS dealership her in October, Doris con- that rented the Dodge wagon. fessed to him that she’d killed His tow truck was summoned Eduardo with intent. 265, to the crash scene to lif it so 374, 380 frst responders could extract Eduardo’s remains. 281 C Brown, Clem Jr. 281 Caldwell, Sarah Mae Rovensky Brown, Eileen With her second husband she T.J. Brown Landscaping 64, 69, 71 traded her Fifh Avenue Brown, John Perkins mansion to Pierre Cartier for A preservationist and antique two strands of pearls worth dealer who sold Doris Duke $1 million 68 Te Reliquary of St. Ursula. Callahan, Cathy Afer Eduardo’s death he ran Former Newport Daily News re- the NRF until Doris fred porter. Compiled a list of 400 him. 141, 144, 202, 203, 209 Sullivan nicknames framed Brown, William “Wiggie” on the wall of Te Irish Mu- Newport landscaper 64 seum on Tames St. Bugliosi, Vincent xv, 379 157 Bunker, Lee, Mrs. Calvert Street 25 Bookeeper for Eduardo but tes- Candy, Capt. H.A. “Sugar” tifed vs. his family in 1971 Expelled from Te Reading Room wrongful death trial 54, 55 afer riding a horse onto the Burton, Richard, the Welsh actor front porch 66 who co-starred with his wife Canning, Kim Elizabeth Taylor in “Te Lived at “No View,” a Ledge Road Sandpiper,” the 1964 flm shot home. Her father James was in Big Sur and Paris produced Chairman of Te RI Turnpike by Martin Ransohof 7, 234, & Bridge Authority which 251, 259 built Te Pell Bridge 243, 377 390 Index

Capochiano, Dominic “Dom” Cielo Drive 10050 Chief Radice’s brother-in-law 80 Te red farmhouse where Te Capote, Truman 69 Manson family murdered Cardinale, Claudia 7 Sharon Tate, pregnant with a Casey, Harry. B. son, and 3 of her friends xiii High Sherif of Newport City By Te Sea, Te 16, 56, 154, Evicted Louise Vanderbilt 161, 194, 317 for non-payment of rent 95 Clambake Club, Te Castro, Joseph Armand 10, 144, Summer Colony shooting venue 267, 269, 332, 347, 350 69, 99 Common-law marriage to Doris Clef, Rocky 35, 336 Duke 4, 10, 103, 269 Clement, Denise 15, 333 Kidnapping 10, 348 Clement, Rosemarie Chief Radice’s Stabbing 4, 12, 106, 267 secretary. 15 Charles, Marion “Oatsie” Clif Walk, Te 4, 58, 78, 79, 88, 89 Friend of Doris. Lived around the Close, Glen 69 corner from Rough Point on Clover Records the property of “Land’s End,” Recording company Doris Duke Edith Wharton’s estate 237 set up to appease Joe Castro Chartier, Louis 105, 108, 349 Newport Developer, His wife Coburn, James 7, 251 found Eduardo’s wallet on Coggeshall Avenue the edge of their estate next Te Holmwood’s summer place 63 to the crash site. He later Columbia J-School 61 told Sherif Harry Casey that Conti, Al Louise Vanderbilt murdered Newport police detective (ret.). her husband 95, 135 Solved multiple heists from Chateau Sur Mer Newport mansions. Estate of William Shephard 99, 150, 279, 313, 314, 346, 383 Wetmore, founder of Te Coogan, James Jay 65 With his wealthy wife Harriett Cheda, Glen Gardiner Lynch, he bought Longtime friend of Sculptor Whitehall, a Stanford White Edmund Kara, Eduardo’s designed estate in Newport partner 139, 140, 328 In 1910 they invited 300 Newport Church Community Housing Corp. summer colonists to a lavish A non-proft set up to build aford- coming out party for their able housing for the residents daughter. When nobody of West Broadway 127 came, they lef the mansion Ciarla, Dr. Philomen P. that night. Newport Health Supt. Ordered 181 shutdown of Beck’s estate Coogan, Jay afer an infestation of rats. Descendent. Columnist for Te See Plaisance Cape Cod Times. 181, 183 Index 391

Cook, James D., Killed at Te Quali- Curtis, Tony 3 ty Lunch 10.6.67 31 Cushing, Howard Gardiner 75 Cooley, Pete Cushing, Mary “Minnie” 22, 63, 75, Duke Business Manager 37, 48, 80, 81, 131, 138, 156, 157, 136, 138, 146, 229, 230, 231, 158, 191, 210, 211, 233, 234, 264, 284, 294, 355, 374 235, 243, 244, 246, 264, 316 Corte-Real, Miguel Portuguese Azorean explorer and D slave trader, whom some say, Daddy’s Duchess, Duke biography built Te “Old Stone Mill” by Tom Valentine & Patrick in Touro Park in 1502 as a Mahn 10, 105, 214, 330, 332 beacon for his lost brother Dame Patti 24, 194 Gaspar. 112, 113, 351 Davis, Bette 57, 287 Cosmos Bank of Zurich Davis, Deborah Author: Swiss bank that hid its interest in “Gilded” & “Party of Te Century” Annandale Farm, estate next 69, 87, 182, 340, 343, 366 to Jackie Kennedy’s mother’s Death Certifcate residence. Allegedly tied of Eduardo Tirella. Cites injuries to gangster Meyer Lansky consistent with the nature of through the Paradise Island his murder. 13, 276, 278, 284 casino in the Bahamas and Dee Dee Richard Nixon, whom investiga- Nickname for Doris Duke x, 10, tive reporters say, held a se- 14, 82, 214, 215, 287, 348 cret bank account there with Dee, John his close friend Charles Bebe Anglo-Welsh mathematician and Rebozo 195, 196, 197, 198 cartographer, believed by Cowboy Pool James Alan Egan, proponent Reading Room billiard game 67 of “Te Renaissance Tesis,” Cranston Calvert School to have designed Te New- Fully integrated until 1959 when port Tower, built, he says, the Black children from Te during a preliminary English West Broadway neighbor- expedition in 1582 115, 116 hood were excluded in an Delabarre, Edmund B. act of e acto egregation Brown University professor. First afer the district was propounded the Azorean gerryman-dered to favor thesis for construction of Te middle class whites 22, 23, Newport Tower 112 Crile, D de la Renta, Oscar, designer of Min- Cleveland Clinic founder 57 nie Cushing’s bridal gown 75 Cromwell, James De La Salle Academy 20, 23, 25, 30, Doris Duke’s 1st husband 101, 227 84, 109, 154, 169, 173, 174, Cruiser Destroyer Force Atlantic 19 196, 233, 281, 300, 301, 314 CRUDESLANT 19, 190, 317 Dershowitz, Alan Cullen, Norey Dotterer 73 Claus von Bulow Atty. 69, 149 392 Index

Dixon Street 72 Bedroom interview 38, 178, 179, Dodge Polara wagon 4, 36, 41, 42, 284 95, 277, 284, 286, 293 Common-law marriage to Joe Donnelly, Humphrey “Harp” Castro 4, 10, 103, 269 Mayor of Newport in 1976 who Debut of 8 presented the City fag to Dee Dee x, 10, 14, 82, 214, 215, Queen Elizabeth II. It fea- 287, 348 tured an image of Te Old Duke Farms Stone Mill which he called 2,700 acre New Jersey estate 54, “Te Viking Tower.” 111 104, 144, 146, 148, 214, 218, “Don’t Make Waves,” third flm Edu- 219, 228, 229, 231, 232, 248, ardo Tirella worked on for 264, 291, 292, 342, 357, 358 producer Martin Ransohof. Excessive Drinking 4 It co-starred Sharon Tate 3, Fabricated Q&A 46 7, 140, 379 First Baptist Church. Dotterer. Dr. Charles S. Doris Duke choir performance in Reading Room Member 73, 341 African-American church on Dow, Charles Henry 16 the eve of the Tirella wrong- Doyle, William D. ful death trial 54 Superintendent, Newport Reading German Shepherds 37, 78, 270 Room 65 Goddard Chippendale mahogany Duke, Doris v, x, xiv, xv, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, highboy. $102,000 record 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, purchase. Parke-Bernet Gal- 19, 20, 23, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, leries. May, 1971 54 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, Inheritance of $50,000,00 8 53, 54, 55, 69, 76, 77, 78, 79, Jealousy 4, 10, 14, 103, 261, 267 81, 83, 84, 89, 90, 93, 94, 98, Litigation ix, 10, 104, 348 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, Newport Restoration Foundation 106, 107, 108, 111, 129, 131, 5, 17, 89, 131, 145, 199, 206, 132, 135, 136, 138, 140, 141, 207, 211, 212, 216, 220, 222, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 291, 296 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, Paranoia 10, 78 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, Private investigators 10, 15, 105 179, 180, 186, 187, 199, 200, Stabbing of Joe Castro 4, 12, 106 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, Suicide attempts 106, 267 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, Te Duke Curse: a belief by some 213, 214, 217, 218, 219, 220, that people over the years 221, 222, 223, 224, 226, 227, who got close to Doris Duke 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 235, were damaged in some way, 237, 243, 247, 254, 262, 263, due to the tainted origins of 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, her fortune 224 270, 271, 275, 276, 277, 279, Tirella homicide 77, 78, 82, 151, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 282 286, 287, 288, 292, 293, 294 Vicious dogs 78, 79, 144, 145 Index 393

Violent temper 4 E Wrongful death liability 5, 10, 15, 42, 47, 54, 144, 145, 177, 282 Easton’s Beach Duke Gardens 5, 55, 214, 220, 221, Te main town beach on Memori- 230, 247, 330, 356 al Boulevard aka ‘First Beach” Eduardo Tirella designed glass- 81, 187 house display at Duke Farms Edward, James G. “Jim” 5, 55, 214, 220, 221, 230, 247, Managing editor, Te Newport 330, 356 Daily News 24, 27, 28, 122, Duke, James Buchanan “Buck” 123, 163, 195, 196, 317 Creator of the modern cigarette, Egan, James Alan considered the greatest single Principal exponent of cause of death in the 20th Te Renaissance Tesis century 10, 226 for Te Stone Tower’s origin. Te Duke, Nanaline, Doris’s mother belief that a British expedi- whom she sued over her tion built it in 1582 114, 115, inheritance 8, 226 350, 351 Duke, Pony Eisenhower, Dwight D., Te 34th Godson of Doris who co-authored President who summered in “Too Rich,” a scathing biog- Newport from 1957-1960 74 raphy in which he described Estelle Dunbar I-VIII how desperately she wanted Herman C. Hufer’s sailboats to keep Eduardo within her named for his mother 70 control 10, 79, 103, 140, 227 F Duke Power Duke Energy, cited over the years Fach, Wesley for multiple environmental Doris Duke’s principal attorney and civil rights violations xiv, 37, 48, 150, 179, 230, 294, 332 147, 148, 224, 225, 373 Faerber, Matt “Judge” Duke University xiv, 11, 136, 148, Lawyer who represented Timmy 224, 231, 356 “Te Woodhooker” in 1949. Dunn, Bill. A native Newporter who An internationally acclaimed sailed the world for years expert on military justice, aboard the RV Knorr, one of he was out of the country at the research vessels of Te the time Steve Robertson’s Wood’s Hole Oceanographic parents tried to reach him to Institution. Part of an extend- represent their son 166, 308 ed family of Sullivans in Te Faerber, Paul City By Te Sea 156 Newport Fire Captain (ret.) who, Dunton, Gardner, Harvard Class as a 9 year old witnessed of 1918. Te former Bureau the afermath of the Tirella Chief of Te Providence homicide scene with his fa- Journal in Newport, RI 20, ther Eugene “Jeeps” Faerber, 29, 62, 124, 317 brother of attorney Matt. 394 Index

Motivated to discover the truth Reportedly murdered by the behind Eduardo’s death, he Capochiano family when located the FD’s log book his hands were tied to the from that fatal night, which steering wheel of his car then helped to construct a timeline driven onto railroad tracks of events 78, 273, 341 80, 82 Fairholme Forbes, T. Curtis “Tom” 21, 329, 371 Estate of Mrs. Robert R. Young on Ford, Daryl G. Ruggles Ave. where President Te contractor hired by Doris Kennedy swam mornings in and the NRF to renovate her the salt water fed pool 190 initial colonial era houses Falcon Lair, former Bel Air man- and Prescott Farm. He later sion of Rudolf Valentino, sued her for lack of payment, Purchased in 1953 by Doris alleging she used Foundation Duke. In 1966 Eduardo Tire- Funds to beneft herself per- lla redesigned the kitchen. sonally 149, 187, 203, 204 His work was showcased in Vogue magazine 3 weeks af- Commissioned in 1799, it was ex- ter his death xiii, 7, 103, 105, panded into a massive coastal 106, 108, 228, 230, 265, 266, defense, starting in the 1820’s 267, 287, 327 by a force of 300 Irish immi- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, publisher grant laborers working six of “Te Silver Swan” 11 days a week for seven years. Fassett, Kafe A National Historic Landmark, it’s A painter and fabric artist, now 83. the current site of the annual As a young gay man in the Newport Jazz & Folk Festivals 1960’s he was close to Eduar- 24, 155, 156, 190, 235, 361 do Tirella who inspired him. Friedman, Edward I. He spent a weekend at Rough Tirella family Providence Atty. 55 Point with Eduardo where he met Doris and she visited his G studio in London. 252, 261, Gallagher, Patrick 267, 379, 380 De La Salle, Class of 1966 154 Fifh Ward, “Te Mighty Fifh” Gallagher, Patsy Snyder Newport’s working-class neighbor- St. Catherine’s graduate and native hood since the Irish diaspora of Te Fifh Ward 154, 361 of the 1820’s when 1000’s of George, Gwen immigrants came to build Newport PD records clerk. Report- Fort Adams 152, 154, 157 ed seeing the missing police Flynn, Andrew report “10-15 years” before Mary Capochiano Flynn Radice’s the fall of 2018 150, 151, 360 grandson 80, 342, 343 Gerry, Elbridge Flynn, David Grandson of the creator of “gerry- Mary Radice’s 1st husband mandering.” Index 395

Onetime owner of Seaverge, the , summer home “summer cottage” next to of Janet Auchincloss, mother Rough Point 161 of Jacqueline Kennedy Onas- Gianiotis, Anna 25, 335 sis 17, 56, 192, 193, 196, 367 Gianiotis Family, Te Hanley, James Co-owners of Te Quality Lunch First to report Duke crash. 94 where two sailors were shot “Harlan County, USA,” to death on October 6th, Academy Award winning 1976 1967 25, 335 documentary on the 13 Gianiotis, Gus 25, 335 month strike of mine workers Gianiotis, Julia 25, 335 at Duke Power’s Brookside Gianiotis, Paulie 25 Mine and Prep Plant in Har- Gielgud, John 60 lan County, KY 225 , Te 17, 87, 89, 109, 216, HarperCollins 11, 315, 321, 328, 296, 327, 352 332, 333, 347 Goelet, Robert Wilson Harrington, Julia 22 Manhattan real estate magnate, 20, 21, 57, 58, donated Ochre Point to the 59, 127, 338, 344 Catholic Church. It became Hayes, Michael Salve Regina College (now Son of Sen. Patrick O’Neil Hayes. University) Runs a luxury clothing store He also was a principal benefactor on Bellevue Avenue. 40, 157, of Queen Anne Square 237 196, 228, 229, 246, 259, 300, “Te Great Gatsby” 341, 361, 373, 374, 378 Newport production 1973 56, 337 Hayes, Patrick O’Neill Griggs vs. Duke Power Newport state senator and lawyer Landmark 1971 U.S. Supreme who purchased Idle Hour Court case that focused on and bid on Annandale Farm. alleged racial discrimination Represented tenants fghting at Duke Power’s Dan River Doris Duke. 195, 196, 300 plant following passage of the Hays, Will H. 1964 Civil Rights Act 225 So-called “Film Czar” who devel- Guccione, Bob oped “Te Hays Code” of Penthouse magazine publisher forbidden movie content sued by Doris Duke over James M. Beck worked as his U.K. production of flm “Caligula.” representative 236 144, 358 Helmsley, Leona Te so-called “Queen of Mean” H imprisoned for the same Haddad, Loretta misuse of corp. funds for Beautiful young singer who personal gain Doris Duke stoked Doris Duke’s jealousy. was accused of in a 1970 suit Later married Joe Castro 108 149, 359 “Helter Skelter” xv 396 Index

Historic Hill xviii, 17, 212, 213, 214 Hutton, Barbara Hollywood xiv, xv, 3, 4, 7, 69, 79, 80, Woolworth heiress 81, 108, 175, 234, 236, 249, Doris Duke’s nemesis who married 250, 254, 259 Porfrio Rubirosa afer he and Holm, Celeste 57 Doris were divorced 102 Holmwood, Albert, “Uncle Bert” Te Butler at . 18, 56, 60, I 81, 123, 124, 160, 186, 312 Ida Lewis Yacht Club, the Soci- Holmwood, Dorothy, “Aunt Dot” ety club named for heroic Ladies Maid to legendary Society lighthouse keeper Idawally matrons. 56, 240, 376 Zoradia Lewis who rescued Homen, Donald dozens of stranded seaman Middletown Police chief who over 54 years keeping watch criticized Radice for botched from Lime Rock, the tiny extortion plot sting. 99, 346 island of Newport where the Honduras, Dr. Jacques club sits to this day 65, 236 “Psychic to the Stars,” consulted If You Grew Up In Newport, RI, by Eduardo when friends Facebook Group 12, 329, warned him against returning 382, 383 to Newport. 140 Integlia, Dr. Peter Honey Fitz Member Mary St. Y 211 Te Presidential yacht. Jackie Intrepid 24, 194 water-skied of the stern in Irish Museum, Te Narragansett Bay during the Located at 648 Tames Street, a 3 seasons the Kennedy’s sum- center for the preservation of mered in Newport 190 Newport’s Hibernian history Honolulu 3, 92, 96, 102, 103, 105, 157 108, 146, 147, 148, 265, 266 Irons, Jeremy 69 Hopper, Hedda 6, 250 Irving, Washington Hufer, Herman C. Jr. Reading Room Member 66 Reading Room Member 70 Hughes, J. Harold J Ex-FBI agent, lawyer who convinced Joe Castro to James, Arthur Curtiss 88 drop his suits vs. Doris & betray Beacon Hill House. Site of “Te his Atty. R. Edward Brown Swiss Village” 88 103 James, Henry Hurley, Armstead “Te American Scene” Co-founder of RI’s frst Black- Called 1907 Newport, “a breeding owned bank. Lived in the ground for white elephants.” West Broadway neighbor- 88, 343 hood afer emigrating from Jamestown, 29, 70, Jim Crow Virginia 119 110, 243, 303, 304, 341, 352 Hutchinson, Ann 17, 334 Index 397

Jansen, Harm Kitt, Eartha Engineer with Collision and Injury Legendary singer who succumbed Dynamics. Examined the to the charms of Porfrio forensic evidence behind the Rubirosa, second husband of crash 286 Doris Duke 101 Jazz and Folk Festivals, Newport 24, Konchar, Dan, one of the “Boys” 118, 155 who worked at Te Newport Jones, Brian Reading Room in the early Newport Bureau Chief for Te 1960’s. Went on to a distin- Providence Journal 1967-68 guished career on the faculty 29, 30, 124, 134 of Rogers H.S. 68, 340 Jones, Pembroke & Sarah Kusinitz, Sam Sherwood 96 Member Mary Street Y 211 Kutik, William “Bill” K Reporter for Te Newport Daily Kahanamoku, Duke News who covered multiple Legendary surfer and Olympic stories in the 1970’s cited in medalist who introduced this book 220, 244, 368 Doris to the long-board L Rumored to have been the father of her baby Arden who died LaChance, Ron just hours afer birth in 1940 One of two staf photographers 227, 228 (along with Ed Quigley) at Kara, Edmund Te Newport Daily News Eduardo’s partner who carved the 272 nude redwood bust of Liz Ladd, Alan 7, 139 Taylor’s character in “Te Laferty, Bernard 9 Sandpiper” and the Phoenix Lance, Albina “Bina.” Deputy Clerk sculpture at Nepenthe, the at Te RI Superior Court- restaurant high atop the Big house on Washington Square Sur coast 6, 7, 108, 138, 139, 20, 84, 233, 315 249, 251, 257 Lance, Joseph, former Navy Chief, Kennedy, Caroline 17, 19, 89, 118, worked at Te Newport 156, 190, 191, 193, 197, 199, Naval Base & Nick Merlo’s 218, 321, 334, 367, 368 Tailor Shop on Tames Street Kennedy, Jacqueline Bovier 17, 10, 19, 47, 80, 81, 102, 103, 89, 118, 156,19, 190, 191, 193, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 144, 197, 199, 218, 321, 334, 367 151, 152, 191, 192, 193, 267 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald 17, 19, 89, Lance, Mary 22, 63, 75, 80, 316 118, 156, 190, 191, 193, 197 Lance, Peter iii, iv, xviii, 82, 321 Kerry Hill Lansky, Meyer 119, 352 Gangster forced out of Cuba afer King Park 72, 157, 163, 236 Castro’s takeover. He got involved in 398 Index

Te Paradise Island casino, which Maguire, Jane was initially failing until Newport native. Wife of John a causeway was built to it Quigley who found missing fnanced by Cosmos Bank of photographic evidence, key Zurich 197 to the solution of the murder Laverty, Mary 191 of Eduardo Tirella 272, 314 “Te Ledges.” Summer cottage of Mahn, Patrick Te Cushing Family over- NYU prof. who Doris hired to looking Bailey’s Beach 64, manage her fnances. Co-au- 75, 76 thored Daddy’s Duchess Lee, Peggy, a close friend of Eduardo a critical biography that Tirella who redesigned her underscored the heiress’s vin- hilltop home in Beverly Hills dictiveness 10, 105, 214, 229, 7, 251, 264, 380 328, 330, 332, 371, 374 Leno, Jay Maloney, Arthur Owner of Seafair, the former Vern- Night watchman at er Z. Reed mansion on Ocean 273 Drive. 239, 377 Mandell, Johnny Lenthal School 26, 27 Oscar winning composer of “Te Lipton, Sir Tomas Shadow of Your Smile” for Mounted 5 unsuccessful bids for “Te Sandpiper.” Frequented Te America’s Cup 90 musical sessions Eduardo Little Rhody 19, 200 and Edmund held in Big Sur Lohmeyer, Donna & Laurel Canyon 139 Eduardo’s closest living relative Mansfeld, Stephanie, former who’s been searching for the Washington Post reporter truth behind his death for who wrote the defnitive 1992 decades. 5, 14, 136, 150, 151, Duke biography, “Te Richest 203, 232, 248, 254, 270, 297, Girl In Te World” 44, 102, 314, 328, 329, 355, 360, 365, 218, 231, 269, 282 369, 378, 379, 384 Manson Family, Te xiii Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Marlborough Street, site of the New- American poet who visited port Police Headquarters in Newport in 1852. His poem the mid 1960’s. Current site “Skeleton in Armor” refers to of Newport Fire Department the mysterious stone Tower Headquarters 21, 29, 304 in Touro Park 113 Massachusetts 17, 19, 57, 99, 113, Los Angeles Times, Te 9, 204, 250 161, 190, 222, 223, 225, 301 Massarone, Al M RI Registry of Motor Vehicles Machado, Rose Investigator 53 Mother of six living in a con- Mather. Norman, Inspector New- demned building at 28 Marsh port Police Department (ret.) Street 121, 130 Index 399

Supplied crucial details of the cov- Mey, Steve er-up by Chief Radice 239, Came upon the crash on his paper 241, 244, 279, 376, 377, 383 route & summoned help. McAllister, Brendan 41, 233, 375 Another time, while fshing McAllister, Dr. Phillip C. 14, 36, 41, for stripers, his brother Chris 44, 45, 233, 268, 269, 284 found Doris swimming nude Assistant M.E. who hired on as below Rough Point. 273, 382 Doris Duke’s private doctor Middletown, Rhode Island 31, 79, on the night of the crash. 81, 99, 134, 135, 164, 210, He put her in a pvt. hospital 211, 233, 273, 281, 346, 375 room out of reach of RI in- Millionaire’s Row 3, 55, 87, 169, vestigators. Later his personal 276, 327 & professional life unraveled Minnelli, Vincent 7, 260, 380 14, 232 Miramar McAllister, Phillip, Jr. 41, 120, 127, Te 27 bedroom “cottage” of Dr. 132, 133, 204, 205, 233, 238 Alexander Hamilton Rice 57, McFarlane, Howard 58, 59, 60 Caretaker at Rough Point 34, 64, Miss C 75, 76, 92, 134, 175, 178, 217, One of Doris Duke’s Newport 218, 230, 232, 321, 344, 359 maids, identifed only by the McFarlane, Linda (Knierim) 34, 42, frst letter of her last name 141, 173, 200, 335, 356, 368 While sunbathing on the rocks Howard’s daughter. Wrote a Rough below Rough Point she Point memoir describing the was struck by a wave and early evening Eduardo Tirella drowned. According to Lin- was killed as “Tat horrible da McFarlane, the caretaker’s night.” 34, 297 daughter at the time, there Means, Phillip Ainsworth was no investigation of her Historian who called Te Newport death and nothing else was Tower, “Te most enigmatic ever said of her. 174 and puzzling single building Te Missing photograph. A key in the United States.” 111 shot of the underside of the Mello, Dan Dodge Polara wagon taken by Caretaker at Harbor Court; estate Ed Quigley. It was selectively of John Nicholas Brown 64 removed from Te Newport Mercedes SL 300 Gullwing roadster Daily News archives, but a Te $100,000 sports car Doris copy was found 52 years later bought to placate Joe Castro. by his stepson John Quigley 105 & his wife Jane Maguire iv Merlo, Nick 19, 131 Mocambo, Te Mesta, Pearl Hollywood nightclub where Joe “Te hostess with the mostess” 57 Castro played 102 Monkey Dinner, Te 59 Mosbacher, Emil “Bus” 24, 192 400 Index

Moss, James, Det. NYPD (Ret.) Newport Daily News, Te 10, 11, “Jimmy” 12, 45, 82, 152, 176, 18, 35, 49, 73, 90, 157, 163, 285, 314, 337, 365 220, 242, 244, 273, 277, 281, Mudge Paris. David Madupe 312, 328, 329, 333, 334, 336, Purported “African Prince,” alleged 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 345, in an exposé in Confden- 346, 347, 351, 353, 354, 358 tial magazine to have had Newport Historical Society 10, 150 an afair with Doris Duke 5, 12, 14, 35, 73, that turned into a blackmail 84, 134, 136, 179, 281, 284, scheme 106 294, 314 Mumford School 22 Newport Mercury. Sister paper of Munday, Richard Te Newport Daily News Architect and designer of Trinity founded in 1758 by the Church and Te Colony widow and son of Benjamin House in Newport 216 Franklin’s brother James 18 Murdoch, James Newport Navy Base 19 Gardener at Miramar 63 Newport Navy League 73 Newport Police Department 10, 14, N 47, 48, 94, 135, 177, 269, 282, Narragansett Bay 19, 29, 110, 112, 285, 312, 336, 345, 360, 365 116, 188, 190, 316, 361, 367 Newport Preservation Society Narragansett Indian tribe 18 Maintains fve of the Gilded Age National Archives, Te 42, 281, 372 “summer cottages” includ- Nepenthe ing Te Breakers, Marble Legendary restaurant atop the Big House, Te Elms, Roseclif, Sur clifs. & Chateau Sur Mer 89, 184, Run by the Fassett family, in the 202, 240 1960’s it became the center Newport Reading Room, Te 33, of the artistic universe just 66, 237 south of Te Monterey coast Newport Restoration Foundation Edmund Kara carved the Phoenix 5, 17, 89, 131, 145, 199, 206, sculpture at Nepenthe and 207, 211, 212, 216, 220, 222, Eduardo, who held forth 291, 296 with him at nightly dinners Newport, RI 3, 12, 34, 95, 165, 247, there, suggested to producer 313 Ransohof that he use it as a Newport’s Back Yard; 4 part exposé location for “Te Sandpiper,” of slum housing conditions in starring Taylor & Burton the West Broadway neigh- 108, 139, 251, 252, 253, 258, borhood. Published in Te 259, 260, 261, 349, 379 Newport Daily News, August , Te 8, 66, 235 28th-31st 1968 ix, 23, 120, , Te 73 126, 131, 132, 133, 353 Newport Creamery, Te 71, 173 Newport Society 8, 21, 69, 164, 182 Newport to Point Judith Race 70 Index 401

Newport Tower, Te Novak, Kim, the legendary star of Ancient circular stone structure in “Vertigo” and so many classic Touro Park, the origin of which flms introduced Martin has sparked multiple theories Ransohof to Big Sur, and 109, 351 through him she met Edu- Newton, Sgt. Fred, Te Newport ardo Tirella and his partner, PD’s chief accident investiga- sculptor Edmund Kara 7, tor who solved the murder of 139, 140, 251, 257, 259, 264 Eduardo Tirella within hours NRF 89, 131, 149, 199, 204. See of his death but was prevent- also Newport Restoration ed by Chief Joseph Radice Foundation from putting the details into Nugent, J. Joseph, RI Attorney his ofcial report 272, 282, General, who balked at Chief 286, 312, 314 Radice’s rush to judgement in New York 400, Te. Te leading the Tirella case, then acqui- families of New York Society esced to the “accident” story. in Te Gilded Age, some- 5 years later he hired on “of times referred to as “Te counsel” to Te Tirella family, Knickerbocracy” 3 charging them $11,500+ in New York Daily News 36, 38, 39, 44, current dollars 15, 49 49, 53, 167, 264, 332, 339 Nutt, Johnny, a Rough Point garden- New York Times, Te 9, 21, 36, 53, er whose grandmother was 54, 58, 60, 69, 90, 91, 92, 95, Doris’s beloved chef. He con- 98, 160, 161, 168, 205, 228 frmed the heated argument Nicholson, Joe the heiress had with Eduardo Newport City Manager who aided moments before she killed in the search for the missing him 175, 176, 328, 364 police fle 151 Niven, David. Co-star, with Deborah O Kerr and Sharon Tate in “Eye O’Brien, James S. of Te Devil,” the frst flm Te City Solicitor, named in “New- Eduardo Tirella worked on port’s Back Yard” who failed for producer Ransohof 7, to enforce the minimum 257 housing code. He later went Nixon, Richard, the 37th President on to prosecute Stephen Rob- who lost RI in 1968 and nar- ertson for Te Quality Lunch rowly won it in 1972. He ex- murders. 126, 308 acted his revenge by slashing Ocean Drive. Te 10 mile ribbon of 21,000 Navy jobs in the state “Summer cottages” that runs in 1973. Te City was desper- from Rough Point to Castle ate and Doris Duke’s Resto- Hill Inn xviii, 17, 77, 98, 159, ration Foundation became its 190, 196, 213, 239, 316, 377 salvation 19, 198, 200 Northeastern University 20, 321 402 Index

O’Connell, William Parvo, Bill Newport lawyer who practiced A painter who had worked at with the late attorney Joe Rough Point. Revealed that Houlihan - frst to disclose the metal escutcheon plate the existence of the fabricat- which held the massive gates ed Q&A transcript used by inward, was knocked of Chief Radice to clear Doris by the force of Doris Duke Duke 47, 54, 337 crashing through them in the Oelrichs, Alice Fair Dodge Polara wagon 311 Roseclif 56 Patriarca, Raymond “Te Old Man” Ofcer Candidate School Cosa Nostra boss of New England Te Newport Naval Station 43 80, 305 Oglethorpe Club Pearson, Drew Savannah, GA 64, 340 Columnist critical of Doris Duke’s Oliver, Ronald “Ollie” insistence the U.S. pay for her Maitre d’ at Newport’s White Hawaiian yacht afer the Pearl Horse Tavern in 1975 Harbor attack 147, 359 A skydiver, he made a daring Pease, John entrance by air into a party at Friend of Joe Castro, falsely labeled Plaisance thrown by Ridgely “a racketeer.” Unknowingly Beck in August, 1975 244 drawn into a plot by Duke’s Olmsted, Frederick Law, Designed Honolulu lawyers to kidnap the gardens at Rough Point Castro and induce him to as well as Te Boston Garden withdraw his L,A, lawsuits vs. and Central Park in Man- Doris for alimony and assault hattan. His brother Albert 105, 348 owned Wildacre another Pelham Garage Ocean Drive estate 8 Te AVIS dealership that rent- O’Loughlin, Agnes ed the Dodge Polara death Chief’s Radice’s 2d. wife 80 wagon also supplied the tow Onassis, Aristotle truck to lif it, so the victim’s Married Jacqueline Kennedy on body could be recovered the Island of Skorpios, Oct, from under the rear axle. 20th 1968 197 134, 135, 175, 177, 281 Pell, Claiborne Sen. P Six term U.S. Senator. Husband of Palantine Hill, Te xvii Nuala. Lived at Pelican Lodge Paranzino, Elayne on Ledge Road. His Bellev- Chief Radice’s granddaughter. 80, ue Ave. estate became St. 81, 342, 343 Catherine Academy. Creator Park Holm. Public housing project of “Pell Grants.” Campaigned near Te Navy Base 30, 302 for Newport to become the Parsons, Louella 6, 251, 379 site of JFK’s “Summer White House” 194, 316, 367 Index 403

Penhallow, William He retired in 2015 from the D.C. Astronomer & physicist who frst Bureau of Te L.A. Times saw Te Stone Tower as a afer a career as a reporter horologium -- a grand time and editor for the NYT, Te piece 114, 351 Baltimore Sun and Newsday Perkins, Pauline (Moyé) where he broke the Anita Hill As a young community organizer story 21, 98 she helped the author get Plaisance access to the homes cited in Te 6500 sq. foot French Provin- “Newport’s Back Yard.” Later, cial-style estate of Te Beck she fought Doris Duke’s Family on Ledge Road x, eforts to buy up West Broad- 234, 235, 236, 237, 242, 243, way homes. Today she is 244, 245, 246 Director of Resident Services Polanski, Roman xiii, 261 for Te Newport Housing Pollack, Ada Authority 120, 126, 128, 201, Chief Radice’s 1st. wife 80 202, 223, 353, 370, 373 Portsmouth, RI 18, 90, 96, 149, 187, Perón, Eva “Evita” 188, 222, 233, 331 First lady of Argentina, said to Prescott, Richard, Gen. have fallen under the spell of Commander of Te British oc- Porfrio Rubirosa 101 cupying force in Newport, Perrotti, Lewis A. He was abducted by an RI Registry of Motor Vehicles In- audacious band of American vestigator 53, 329, 336, 337, Patriots, July 10th 1777. 365, 381 187, 188 Perrotti, M. Tomas Providence Journal, Te 20, 53, 60, Former Chairman of Te Newport 123, 124, 125, 134, 330, 334, Redevelopment Authority 336, 337, 343, 361, 365, 378 223 Perrotti, Tom Q Native Newporter who took pho- Q&A tos of several NRF installa- Fabricated transcript of an “inter- tions for this book 223, 291, rogation” of Doris Duke that 313, 373 never took place. 48, 49, 53, Perry, Commodore Matthew C. 73 83, 176, 178, 180, 283, 285 Perry, Commodore Oliver H. 73 Quality Lunch, Te 24, 28, 302, 307, Person to Person 7, 331, 379 313 Phelps, Henry Delafeld Double Murder 24, 28, 83, 298, Reading Room Member 302, 307, 313, 335 Muriel Adams’ 2d. husband 98 Quatrel Phelps, Tim, former reporter for Lorillard Estate 44, 95, 135, 168 Te Providence Journal in Newport. 404 Index

Queen Anne Square Ransohof, Martin Crown jewel of Duke’s restoration Producer of “Te Sandpiper,” efort. She decided to move “Don’t Make Waves” & “Eye a 16 ton boulder to the park of Te Devil.” He hired below Trinity Church. Later Eduardo for design work on snubbed QE II who visited each flm. Discovered Sharon Newport to dedicate the Tate who soon became close Square in 1976 111, 213, 216, to Eduardo & Edmund in 217, 221, 223, 237, 370 Laurel Canyon. Kim Novak Queen Elizabeth I 111, 116 introduced Ransohof to Big Queen Elizabeth II xiv, 111, 217 Sur. 138, 251, 259, 264, 379 Quigley, Ed, one of the two staf Ransohof, Steve photographers for Te New- Son of the producer, he and his port Daily News in the mid twin brother Kurt spent time 1960’s. He took the ground- as eight-year-olds with Edu- breaking shots of the Tirella ardo, Edmund and Sharon murder scene that helped Tate who took them on walks solve the mystery 28, 41, 134, behind Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn 150, 272, 277, 280, 289, 305 251, 258, 379 Quigley, John Raposa, Manual, Patrolman 31 Te stepson of Ed who, with his Ray, Joseph T. wife Jane Maguire, found Newport’s frst Black police ofcer long missing photos in the and oldest living survivor of basement of their L.I. home, Te Civil War. He owned a that proved crucial to the house at 30 Kingston Avenue solution of the crime 272, 119, 352 277, 289, 290, 314, 382 Rebozo, Charles “Bebe” 77 Quonset Naval Air Station 19, 190 Redford, Robert 56 Redwood Library, Te 73, 340 R Registry of Motor Vehicles, RI 12, Radice, Joseph A. 4, 14, 15, 38, 39, 45, 53, 150, 177, 283, 286, 42, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 77, 294, 313, 337, 365, 381 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 97, 98, Reversal of Fortune 99, 100, 136, 141, 152, 156, Te von Bulow saga 69, 330, 340 178, 179, 180, 230, 269, 271, Rhode Island Judicial Archives 10 276, 278, 280, 282, 284, 288, Rhode Island Superior Court 293, 294, 328, 341, 342, 346 Te Court House 21 Within 96 hours of the crash he Rice, Dr. Alexander Hamilton called Eduardo Tirella’s death Surgeon, explorer, clubman 57, 58 the result of “an unfortunate Rice, Eleanor Elkins Widener accident.” 38 Philanthropist 58, 60 Radice, Mary Capochiano Flynn Chief Radice’s 3rd. wife 80 Index 405

Rimmer, David 227, 228, 230, 232, 234, 243, Estates manager for Doris Duke. 248, 262, 264, 267, 270, 272, Close friend of Eduardo’s 273, 274, 279, 280, 282, 284, who few to Newport within 285, 287, 288, 289, 290, 292, hours of his death and was 294, 295, 296, 297, 311, 312, denied access to Rough Point 314, 315, 316, 318, 327, 328, by Pete Cooley, Duke’s busi- 329, 331, 332, 335, 358, 368 ness mgr. 229, 232, 264, 284, Te Great Room 8 292, 330, 374, 380 Rough Point gates xv, 4, 8, 9, 13, Ring, Woody 14, 43, 55, 134, 174, 175, 177, As a young patrolman he was one 178, 179, 270, 271, 272, 273, of the frst on the scene afer 275, 276, 278, 280, 286, 288, Tirella’s death 79, 342 290, 291, 296, 312, 314, 318 Robertson, Stephen “Magoo” Rubenstein Library. De La Salle grad and Boys Club Te David M. Rubenstein Rare “Boy of Te Year,” convict- Book & Manuscript Library ed of killing two sailors at at Duke University Te Quality Lunch in 1967. 81,600+ pages of fles from Doris Became a “jailhouse lawyer” Duke are stored there. Te and redeemed himself as an research for this book includ- advocate for prison reform x, ed more than 1,000 of them. 25, 28, 31, 32, 76, 82, 83, 122, 136, 148, 229, 231, 293, 328, 157, 272, 298, 299, 300, 301, 330, 332, 348, 349, 355, 356 302, 303, 304, 305, 306 Rogers High S Te public H.S. in Newport which Sachuest Beach dominated New England aka “Second Beach” on Sachuest sports for decades thanks, Point Road in Middletown in part, to the vast pool of 99 athletic talent among the Salem, Emad 12 thousands of Navy families Sanders, Ed xv stationed in Newport 68 Te Sandpiper 7, 138, 139, 251, 257, Rome xvii, 102, 296 259, 260, 261 Romulus and Remus xviii Sarras, John 25, 27, 302, 303, 307, Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 20, 33 313 ’s Baby xv Sarras, Koula 25, 313 Rough Point iv, xv, xviii, 3, 4, 8, 9, Saunderstown, Rhode Island 30, 11, 12, 17, 20, 33, 34, 35, 37, 304, 352 39, 42, 44, 45, 48, 49, 55, 57, Schilling, Russell A., Commissary- 65, 74, 75, 78, 79, 90, 94, 95, man 3rd. Class, killed at Te 98, 102, 134, 142, 143, 144, Quality Lunch 31 149, 150, 160, 161, 167, 168, Schliemann, Heinrich xvii 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 186, School Committee, Te Newport 22 199, 200, 203, 212, 213, 214, 406 Index

Schwadron, Terry H. Silvia, Joseph G. Providence Journal reporter 60 Blacksmith who repaired the dam- Scotch, Benson aged Rough Point gates afer Te New York lawyer who rep- the fatal crash 273, 305, 382 resented Cosmos Bank of Simpson, Nicole Brown 15 Zurich and presided over the Simpson, O.J. 15, 333 1968 auction of Annandale Sinatra, Frank 6, 136, 355 Farm 195, 196 Sisson, Jack “Prince” Seaverge African American member of the Estate next to Rough Point, pur- raiding party that kidnapped chased by Mrs. Peyton J. van Gen. Richard Prescott. It Rensselaer. was Sisson who breached the She was met with ferce opposition door to the room where the by Bellevue Ave. residents British general was cavorting afer announcing plans to with the wife of Quaker John convert it into “luxury apart- Overing ments,” dubbed a “Million- 188 aire’s Hut” by the NY Daily Slagle, Alton News 161, 167, 168, 197, 363 Veteran crime reporter for the Sellar, Rita Dolan New York Daily News, who Lived in “Seaweed,” a Horace was frst to learn that Dr. Trumbauer designed estate McAllister, the Asst. Medical near Ledge Road 242, 377 Examiner had been hired by Shalabi, Mustafa 12 Doris Duke to hide her away Sherman, Albert 18, 56, 60, 81, 123, in Newport Hospital on the 124, 160, 186, 312, 338, 340 night of Tirella’s death 36, 37, Sherman Family, Te 18, 124 39, 44, 331, 336, 381 Sherman, Ned 18, 124, 125, 312 Slocum, Eileen Editor-in-Chief of Te Newport Harold Brown Villa 69 Daily News. He published Slocum, Marguerite “Newport’s Back Yard” as a Made her debut in 1962 at a ball 4-part series. 8.28-31.68 123 attended by more than 700. Silva, Gary 71, 341 Newport Police Chief. Met with Smith, Alfred the author in 2019 during his Created Bellevue Avenue with search for the missing fle on Joseph Bailey in 1851 87 Eduardo’s death 152 Sopwith, Tomas Silvia, James Lost 1934 America’s Cup series 90 Miramar employee, 1950’s 60 Stanley Hills Place, 2048 Silvia, John 28 Te Laurel Canyon home Eduardo Silvia, Joseph and Edmund shared in the Sherif who accompanied Steve mid 1960’s 139, 249, 283 Robertson to the ACI the Statmen, Alisa, co-author with Brie night of his arrest 273, 305 Tate of “Restless Souls” xiii Index 407

Steele, Romney Sullivan, Dr. Michael H. Granddaughter of Bill and Lolly A pediatrician who made house Fasset who opened Nepenthe calls, he delivered so many in 1949. A successful chef Newporters that an elemen- in her own right, she wrote tary school was named afer “My Nepenthe,” a beautifully him 157 designed memoir. Sullivan, Edward, “Big Eddie” It chronicles the restaurant’s Newport Police chief in the 1940’s culinary history and goes who cleaned up Tames into great detail about the Street, then a notorious involvement of Marty Ranso- district of red light joints and hof, Eduardo and Edmund gambling dens 156 Kara as Nepenthe became a Sullivan, Francis John Pershing prominent location in “Te A local radio host who opened Sandpiper” Sully’s Public House, a 259, 260, 349, 379 nightclub of Bellevue in the Stephens, Rod & Olin 60’s. Every Saturday night Designed a successful string of the place was packed as Leo America’s Cup defenders 90 Connerton tickled the ivories Stewart, Elizabeth, Dr. with Mike DeLuz on drums Antiquities appraiser who wrote a 157 monograph for this book on Sullivan, Paul, Capt. Te Reliquary of St. Ursula Chief of Detectives 42, 47, 53, 82, 296, 384 84, 157, 160, 283, 298, 301 Sturrock, Jock 24, 192 Sullivan, Tim Stuyvesant Fish, Marion “Mamie” Son of Capt. Paul Sullivan 21, 82, Newport’s turn-of-the-century 98, 157, 158, 343, 385 Grand Dame 60 Sullivan, Timmy “Te Woodhooker” Sullivan, Arthur J., Judge 32 Beloved Newport junk collector Sullivan, Cornelius Edward aka, who lived in a shack on “Con Te Bender.” Bellevue Ave. with his reclu- A resident of “Te Mighty Fifh,” sive sister Julia and battled he took the ferry to Goat socialite Mrs. Peyton J. van Island each morning in the Rensselaer 154 40’s to work at Te Torpedo Summer Cottages 57, 58, 384 Station. Széchenyi, Gladys Countess In pre-Climate Change days, when Youngest daughter of Cornelius the harbor froze over he Vanderbilt II. Leased Te walked, bent over against to Te Preservation wind. Hence his nickname. Society for $1.00 a year until 157 they bought the 62,482 sq. f. mansion for $395,000. 89 408 Index

T Te Hedges Mansion if Lillian van Rensselaer Tate, Brie xiii, 327 adjacent to Timothy and Julia Tate-LaBianca murders xv Sullivan’s house 161, 166, 167 Tate, Patti xiii, xiv, 24, 194, 265 Te Last Resorts xvii, 59, 184, 327, Tate, Sharon 335, 339, 340, 344, 366 Legendary actress who frst met Te Mailands Doris Duke in 1969 months Ledge Road mansion before her death; nervous at converted to apts. 94, 95 the time because she knew “Teophilus North,” Torton Wild- Doris had murdered her er’s novel set in Newport close friend Eduardo whom xvii, 327 Sharon met on the set of her Te Playhouse frst flm “Eye of Te Devil” Ocean Drive residence of Lillian xiii, xiv, xv, 3, 7, 139, 251, Washburn Newlin before she 257, 265, 327, 331 married Peyton J. van Rens- Taylor, Elizabeth, received $1 selaer 159, 160, 363 million for her role as the THE RELIQUARY OF ST. URSULA Bohemian painter in “Te A 15th century artifact that Edu- Sandpiper.” Te interior of ardo and Doris were leaving her clifside “shack” was Rough Point to examine just designed by Eduardo Tirella moments before she killed and her nude bust in the flm him. 141 was carved by his partner “Te Silver Swan” Edmund Kara 7, 234, 251, Duke biography by Sallie Bingham 259, 261, 379 11, 292, 294, 333, 384 Teitz, Alex Te Torpedo Station. A prominent Newport attorney Te Naval Underwater Weapons named as a slumlord in Research and Engineering “Newport’s Back Yard” 121, Station (NUWS). Located 132, 203 on Goat Island of Newport, Tennis Week 8, 59, 65 13,000 workers labored Tames Street 18, 19, 27, 72, 119, around the clock for years to 123, 152, 155, 156, 157, 195, build 80% of the torpedoes 200, 202, 213, 216, 223, 302 used by the Navy in WW II. Te Black Pearl 156 Restaurant on Bannister’s Wharf Tom, Judith (Wartgo) 43, 44, 45, named for a Brigantine 70, 275, 283, 336, 340 moored nearby 21, 24, 73, Tom, Lewis 43 76, 335 Index 409

Tinney, Donald 18, 74, 83, 84, Son of the family that bought 109, 110, 113, 128, 167, 233, Belcourt in 1956. In 1960 he 334, 341 married Harle who became Tracy, Richard 72, 340, 341 privy to many of the secrets Tremblay, Joe 10, 19, 47, 80, 81, 102, behind the iron gates of New- 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, port’s mansions 186 144, 151, 152, 191, 192, 193, Tinney, Harle 267, 269, 282, 311, 315, 317, Newport historian whose family 332, 347, 350, 351 ran Belcourt for years as Tremblay, Rita 191 the one “cottage” museum Triangle Trade, Te 16, 333 independent of Te Preser- Trinity Church, opened in 1726 it’s vation Society 141, 168, 186, one of the oldest Anglican/ 203, 243, 246, 328, 356, 364, Episcopal houses of worship 366, 369 in Te New World 59, 76, Tirella, Eduardo xv, 3, 6, 9, 14, 19, 131, 201, 213, 216, 220, 221, 23, 36, 41, 45, 48, 49, 53, 77, 240, 371 90, 94, 107, 108, 133, 139, Triple Crown, Te 74 143, 144, 145, 149, 150, 151, Trumbauer, Horace 168, 169, 174, 186, 197, 201, Gilded age architect 202, 209, 214, 229, 230, 232, Designed, Miramar, 901 Fifh 243, 247, 250, 251, 253, 257, Avenue, Te Elms, Clarendon 263, 266, 267, 269, 271, 275, Court & Seaweed 58, 69, 242 284, 286, 287, 289, 292, 297, Trump, Christopher 302, 323, 328, 329, 330, 332, Dean Columbia J-School 61 355, 356, 374, 383 Trump, Donald 11, 19, 34, 105, 146 Death Certifcate 13, 276, 278, 284 Tubley’s Spa Identity as a Gay man 4, 6, 55, Spring Street luncheonette 83 203, 249, 250, 261, 262, 267, 383 U Interior design work 9 Union League Club Tirella, Etillia Falcione Philadelphia, PA 64 Eduardo’s mother. She died, family United Press International members say, of a broken UPI 49, 179, 330, 331, 337, 345, heart, six weeks afer his 347, 356, 365, 371, 382 death 137 U.S. Naval Sea Cadets 73 “Too Rich,” a critical Doris Duke U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy (DD-850) biography co-authored by her 193 godson Pony Duke 10, 328, Te destroyer named for JFK’s 332, 342, 356, 374 brother killed in WW II 193 Touro, Isaac 18 Touro, Judah 74, 341 410 Index

V van Rensselaer, Lillian A successful realtor and business Valentino, Rudolf woman, she met her match Falcon Lair xiv with legal battles at both ends Vanderbilt Adams, Muriel of Bellevue Avenue 158, 169 Idle Hour van Rensselaer, Peyton Jaudon Object of blackmail plot Descendent of one of the oldest Chief Radice failed to solve 98, 99, Dutch families in America, 345, 346 known as “Te Knickerboc- Vanderbilt, Arthur Gwynne racy.” Father of G.W. III. Perished on the His frst wife Mabel Gertrude RMS Lusitania 91, 210 Adams, jumped to her death Vanderbilt, Cornelius, “Te Com- in NYC in 1925 modore” 8, 66, 88, 89, 90, His second wife Lillian Washburn 157, 166, 210, 339, 344 Newlin became a prominent Vanderbilt, Cornelius II Newport Society matron who Te Breakers 89, 90, 210 waged a epic legal battle vs. Vanderbilt, Cornelius III Timmy & Julia Sullivan. 158 Beaulieu 90 von Bulow, Claus 5 Vanderbilt, Frederick William von Bulow, Sunny Rough Point 8, 331 Clarendon Court 69 Vanderbilt, George Washington, III Explorer, yachtsman & philan- W thropist. Fell from a SF hotel window. His 4th wife alleged Wall Street Journal, Te 16 it was a suicide but there were Walsh, Frank H., Lieutenant no other witnesses and no Afer his brief 4 question bedroom note. Tey’d only been mar- interview of Doris Duke, he ried a short time and his will became successor to Chief was changed the day before Radice 37, 48, 82, 336, 382 his death. 91 War of 1812 73, 74 Vanderbilt, Harold Stirling “Mike” Warren, Katherine Urquhart Rock Clif Visionary preservationist who America’s Cup defender founded Te Newport Pres- Inventor of Contract Bridge 90, ervation Society 89 91, 98 Washington, George. Command- Vanderbilt, Louise Mitchell Paine er-in-Chief of Te Continen- 4th wife of G.W. III tal Army, he wrote a letter to Reported his “suicide” 92, 93, 95 the Touro Synagogue con- Vanderbilt, Reginald Claypoole gregation thanking them for Sandy Point Farm 90 their fnancial support during Vanderbilt, William K. Te War against Te British Marble House 90, 98 18, 89, 91, 95, 216, 371 Index 411

Washington Square “When the ships were in” 18, 317 Eisenhower Park 74 White, Gustave J.S. “Gus” Watterson, Brad Reading Room Member 68 De La Salle Class of 1966. Won Whitehouse, Sheldon, Sen. nine athletic letters in three RI’s current junior U.S. Senator. sports 281, 314, 375 Grew up at “Eastbourne Watterson, William, Detective New- Lodge,” an estate at RI Ave. port PD (ret.) and Kay Streets in central Had a brief post-crash interview Newport 240, 242 with Doris Duke in the lobby Whitlock, Julia 22, 25, 26, 27, 154, of Newport Hospital, then 158, 163, 164, 165, 166, 168 found Eduardo’s passport Whittaker, Arthur near his body at the crime Ex-FBI agent and security special- scene. 135, 336, 355, 365 ist whom Doris Duke hired Watts, George, Det. Promoted to afer a thef at Duke Farms. Sergeant afer his partici- When she refused to pay pation in Duke’s bedroom his bill, he fled an action to interview 37, 48, 82, 178, collect in NY but frst she in- 179, 284, 329, 382 fuenced prosecutors in NJ to Wellington Avenue 70, 72, 193 fle criminal charges against West Broadway 22, 23, 118, 119, him 218 120, 126, 127, 128, 132, 200, Widener, Harry Elkins 201, 202, 203, 204, 208, 209, Son of Dorothy, lost on the 220, 223, 368 58, 338 West. Mae Wildacre Hired Eduardo Tirella to design Te former Ocean Drive mansion hats and costumes for her of Albert H. Olmsted, brother theatrical production of “Dia- of landscape architect Fred- mond Lil.” Eduardo also sang erick Law. Location of “Te in the show on Broadway and Playhouse.” 159, 362 on tour 249 Wilder, Tornton xvii, 327 West Point 25, 299, 303, 307 Wood, Dick Te Point 30, 119, 208, 210, 217 Member of Te Mary Street Westport, Massachusetts 31 YMCA, who lamented it’s Wetmore, William Shephard loss afer it was partially bull- Chateau Sur Mer 65 dozed before Christmas of by “What Ever Happened To Baby Jane” the NRF Te 1962 horror flm in which 211 Joan Crawford crushes her Wood, William H. Jr. “Bill,” Assis- sister, Bette Davis, against tant Director at Newport the gates of their estate, “Te Hospital 37 Old Valentino place,” Falcon Lair 288 412 Index

Z Zanay, Pola, an artist who was ex- tremely close to Eduardo and Edmund 5, 139, 140, 143, 253, 330, 379