How The Richest Woman in U.S. Got Away With Murdering Her Gay Designer
How The Richest Woman in U.S. Got Away With Murdering Her Gay Designer For more than 50 years, the real truth behind what happened to Eduardo Tirella has been hidden. Until now. An excerpt from On the last full day of his life — October 6th, 1966 — Eduardo Tirella flew into Newport, RI, the storied summer colony of The New York 400. Doris Duke, the wealthiest woman in America, picked him up at the airport and they drove to Rough Point, her English-manor estate on Bellevue Avenue, known to Newporters as “Millionaire’s Row.” Tirella, whose close friends called him “Eddie,” was...