Once she ID'd herself as Patti, sister of Sharon who lived "in the red barn," Doris knew that this wasn't any child. He got an up-front credit for his design work on The Sandpiper. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Jan. 19, 2021 Updated: Jan. 19, 2021 7:57 p.m. Facebook Twitter Email. A gay man in the 1960s, Tirella, and his lover, Edmund Kara, a prominent sculptor, had many friends in the arts, including designers, musicians, and actors, such as Richard Burton, David Niven, James Coburn, and Sharon Tate. Next, she released the parking brake by hand. A tinted window went down and a tall woman in back lowered her sunglasses to ask who she was. “Lifting them up, they were bright red with blood.”, Newport police detective Al Conti, a retired 28-year veteran of many investigations along Bellevue Avenue, believes Fred Newton’s theory of the crash to be entirely plausible. gate. Under Rhode Island criminal law, the degree of culpability in a homicide hinges on the issue of intent. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. Homicide at Rough Point is scheduled for release October 27, but can be preordered now at Amazon. Seven months after Tirella’s death, Radice retired, eventually purchasing a pair of Florida condos. Clockwise from top: The wrecked Dodge wagon; the estate’s gates were damaged in the crash—but, tellingly, Tirella’s legs were not; the New York. It came to my attention courtesy of Jane Maguire. Homicide at Rough Point 78. by Peter Lance. Try Prime EN Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Sign in Account & Lists Returns & Orders Try Prime Cart. His name was Fred Newton, a detective sergeant. I was focused on whoever was under the vehicle, whether he was still alive.”. But the truth of what happened at Rough Point gnawed at me. “It was dark. I SAW IT AS A STORY OF CLASS, PRIVILEGE, AND WEALTH—ONE THAT RESONATES MORE THAN EVER IN THE TRUMP ERA. Chief Radice maintained that they were on their way to dinner. Today, she is adamant: “My mother always said Doris Duke bought the city of Newport and got away with murder. Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell’s Friendship, Secret History of Prog-Rock Icon Rick Wakeman. She was a big woman, a lot taller than him, and as she slid across the seat to drive it out, her knee hit the brake release. Duke showered Rubirosa with gifts, including polo ponies and an estate in France. I looked down and found someone underneath the car, all rolled up. Skip to main content. Johnny Nutt, Duke’s former gardener, says that other staffers had a different take on the crash. She read the full police report and knew that there was a cover-up. $48.95. “You’d absolutely want to question witnesses in-depth on the relationship between the killer and decedent to determine if the death involved ‘intent.’ But they wrapped this one up on the basis of a fabricated Q&A requested by the person-of-interest’s own lawyers. September 1896 “You will come down from there this instant. Possessed of a voracious sexual appetite, she had rumored affairs with many an alpha male, including General George Patton and actors Errol Flynn and Marlon Brando. In the fall of 1966 billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confident in an incident that the Newport, RI police hastily ruled an accident. But strangely, half a year earlier, she'd had a brush with a different killer. Lucianne.com News Forum - Homicide at Rough Point On the last full day of his life—October 6, 1966—Eduardo Tirella flew into Newport, Rhode Island, the storied summer colony of the country’s old money families. She told police at the time that Duke “came down the stairs saying she had run over Ed.” That recollection ran counter to Doris’s claim in the Avis case that she’d rushed into the house in search of him. Homicide Monday In Bay Point Under Investigation. Unclear as to who Tirella was—or his relation to the woman he now realized was Doris Duke—Patrolman Angel’s first thought was that she’d hit a pedestrian crossing the avenue. “No. Within that cache was a wide-angle shot of the crash scene. That’s the way I heard it.”, “THIS TALL WOMAN WAS IN THE STREET, WALKING BACK AND FORTH, HYSTERICAL.” SHE TOLD POLICE SHE “HAD RUN OVER ED.”, Nutt’s explanation is puzzling. The brake was horizontal, and the gas pedal was vertical. Once he returned Stateside, he took a job running the millinery department at Saks, creating hats for gossip doyennes Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. All rights reserved. “We were driving down Bellevue Avenue,” she recalls, “when we came upon this accident. The car jerked forward. Discover The Bartholomewtown Podcast (RIpodcast.com) Homicide At Rough Point: Journalist Peter Lance Discusses His Vanity Fair Piece on Doris Duke Update: 2020-08-04 Share $31.99 . She then moved the shift lever from park to drive. Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder. Or did the heir to one of America’s great fortunes turn a vehicle into a murder weapon—then conspire with the local authorities to cover it up? In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in tony Newport, Rhode Island. Within a year or so, Duke coaxed Castro back to Falcon Lair, set up a recording company for him, and promised to include him in her will. The article continued, “Dr. Her father had been the caretaker at Rough Point on what Linda called “that horrible night.” She posted: “The help were all in shock. “SHE KILLED HIM TWICE. Standing in the open frame of a French window, wearing a T shirt, though naked from the waist down, was Castro, urinating over the railing into the garden below.” Brooke reportedly found Duke in her bedroom with a broken jaw. “I drew a diagram of what I thought had been the point of impact between the subject and the vehicle—where I thought he’d been run over.” In Angel’s drawing, the impact—based on the blood and human remains he’d found—occurred not at the gate but out in the street. It happened after her sister Patti, then 11, looked across at the Spanish-Moorish estate Sharon called "The Haunted House." They were sightseeing at the time. But New Englanders associate her most of all with Rough Point, her Newport mansion visited each year by thousands, who tour the stately rooms while guides lavish praise on the late billionaire. $80.65 . “Her entire life revolved around [Tirella’s] ability to make things [for her] look beautiful. Emma Cross, who is related to the Vanderbilt Family, is a reporter for the Newport Observer. For more than 50 years, the real truth behind what happened at Rough Point on Oct. 7th, 1966 has been hidden. A new book by Newport native Peter Lance, “Homicide at Rough Point,” promises to clear up the mystery of whether Duke got away with murder when she struck and killed a man with her Dodge Polara station wagon in 1966. Every evening thereafter, when she went up to bed, that statue was there to remind her of “that horrible night.”. Vogue even ran a piece featuring his design for the kitchen at Falcon Lair, the Duke mansion in Benedict Canyon, once owned by Rudolph Valentino. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Homicide at Rough Point: In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Homicide at Rough Point alleges that the world’s third richest woman at the time deliberately crushed and killed Eduardo Tirella with a rented station wagon in a … With Castro unable to console her, she spent more and more time with Tirella. Then in the summer of 1965, her ex-husband Rubirosa was killed when he crashed his Ferrari 250 GT in Paris, and Doris lapsed into another depression. Another cop who had interviewed Duke was promoted to sergeant. Ad Choices. Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now . Philip C. McAllister, acting state medical examiner, said Tirella died instantly of brain injuries.” What the story didn’t reveal was that after Duke entered the hospital that night, McAllister, a Rhode Island official, agreed, then and there, to become her personal doctor. On his deathbed, he had reportedly warned his daughter, “Trust no one.” She’d been famously paranoid ever since. In May 1966, Duke abruptly pulled the plug on Castro’s record company, where Peter Brooke was an executive. Joseph G. Silvia, the 88-year-old blacksmith who’d repaired the gates, remembers that “they were exceptionally heavy. Bay City News Service. “I walked into the middle of Bellevue [Avenue], looked down, and I saw some skin and blood,” he says. Moments later, the pair got into the station wagon with Tirella behind the wheel and headed off for an appointment. Eddie, as friends knew Tirella, had just told intimates that after a decade as the artistic curator and designer of Duke’s estates in New Jersey, Bel Air, Honolulu, and Newport, he was planning to sever his professional ties with her, for good. Then, shortly after Tirella’s death, Duke’s foundation made that generous gift to restore Cliff Walk. Doris, in response, erected a chain-link fence, effectively placing an impassable barrier along the walkway, one of the state’s top tourist attractions. According to Angel, Fred Newton believed that Tirella went up on the hood of the wagon before it hit the gate. Five years after “the accident,” a Providence courtroom was the setting for a 10-day, $1.25 million wrongful-death trial. Visible near a bicycle, at left, are three of the five balusters that had snapped off the gates as they were bent outward, over the metal-covered “stop,” embedded in the driveway to hold the gates in place. Hardcover $ 31.99. Local police ruled the incident "an unfortunate accident." It can be pre-ordered on Amazon. It would have taken quite a bit of force for them to go up and over that stop.”. Excerpts were published on July 14 in Vanity Fair magazine, and the book is scheduled for release in October. And yet during the damage phase of the trial, her lawyer portrayed him as a ne’er-do-well. Mid-career he worked as a writer, producer and show runner on multiple dramatic television series including Crime Story, Miami Vice, Wiseguy, and JAG. Murder at Rough Point: Alyssa Maxwell: 9781496703286: Books - Amazon.ca. For the volatile heiress, it was over. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Along with her estates, however, courtrooms were Duke’s natural habitat. Late the next afternoon, Tirella and Duke had a heated argument, overheard by the estate’s staff. To understand why, it helps to understand the events that followed the crash. As a precaution, she says, he consulted a clairvoyant named Dr. Jacques Hondorus, nicknamed the Psychic to the Stars: “Eduardo really wanted to extricate himself from Doris’s clutches. The antique that Tirella was en route to appraise the night he died. The verdict: After legal fees and expenses, each of his five sisters and three brothers received $5,620. So, he said, ‘I’ll sell it to Doris.’ ” It took months to restore the piece and, before Duke took possession, she wanted it appraised. The car was against a tree across the road from this open gate. Order now and we'll notify you by email when we have an estimated delivery date for this item. But by this point, Wartgow had gotten a good look at Doris’s face. The fire department’s logbook, however, still survives; it was recently discovered in the attic at headquarters. I know others believe differently.”. Permalink. But another shot by Quigley, taken from under the Dodge, shows what looks like a large bloodstain. That is, until last fall, when a government official heard that I was digging into the Tirella matter and thought the truth should come out. “She never bought a work of art without consulting Eduardo, and that’s why she’d coaxed him back to Newport. Doris Duke escaped any criminal liability. Only 2 left in stock - order soon. Skip to main content. Please try again. 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