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[Assistant] And then Pam was doing her absolute best to just play the devastated widow betrayed by these students she had hoped to help and project self-esteem. Wow. And she knew that the arrest of the four boys


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[Assistant] Definitely put her at risk, like she was starting to get nervous here.


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[Assistant] But what she didn't realize was that her good old buddy, Cecilia Pierce, would actually be the biggest risk.


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[Assistant] Pam seemed more anxious than ever to keep Cecilia close by.


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[Assistant] And worse than that, the Derry Police definitely knew that Cecilia knew something she wasn't saying.


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[Assistant] She later told reporters, every night when I was in bed I'd get up like every five minutes when I heard a car pull in, seeing if it was the police coming to get me.


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[Assistant] I know that everything about this situation was wrong, and I've been manipulated by Pam. And she was like, in the past, she was like, oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] Mmhm, exactly. So, Cecilia's unwavering loyalty to Pam


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[Assistant] Obviously was a part of Pam's plan all along. That's why she spent so much time building trust between her and these kids.


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[Assistant] And that's obviously why she was testing that loyalty in small ways leading up to the murder, like we saw.


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[Assistant] But in the time since the arrests, Cecilia had noticed a very large change in Pam's behavior, and she was starting to question everything she thought about their relationship.


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[Assistant] In a later interview with Hard Copy, she told them, Cecilia did, her lover was in jail and she didn't care.


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[Assistant] Cecilia finally broke down and went to her mom and just spilled the beans.


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[Assistant] So obviously that got passed along to the detectives and the detectives in Derry.


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[Assistant] How the fuck were they gonna prove that she wasn't there? And there's no, like there's no text messages or anything like that. So they're considering their options.


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[Assistant] But ultimately they decided that the best way to secure a conviction


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[Assistant] Would be for Cecilia to get Pam on tape confessing to her role in the murder. And Cecilia and her mother agreed to the plan.


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[Assistant] So, Cecilia's first attempt came on June 19th, when the police attached a recording device to the family's telephone.


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[Assistant] They were hoping they could record a conversation, like a phone conversation between Cecilia and Pam. So Cecilia was giving it her all. She wanted to win here.


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[Assistant] But Pam was very guarded and she was denying.


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[Assistant] Any romantic relationship between her and Billy. Because I think she was like, they could bug our phones. Yea, of course. She was a little ahead. Yea.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, she was also dodging Cecilia's references to Greg's murder, so in the end the call was a bust.


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[Assistant] But in the weeks and months after the arrest, Pam, she was playing it cool in public. She was like...


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't even think these boys had anything to do with Greg's death, like, just playing it up, hamming it up. But at the same time, she obviously must have known she was a suspect.


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[Assistant] Rumors were starting to spread about Billie having an affair with her.


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[Assistant] In the back of her mind I think she knew her plan was shit all along. Yep.


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[Assistant] Also, like, why would you be dumb enough to have teenagers do this for you? It's only a matter of time before somebody slips up and says something.


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[Assistant] And here we go. On July 12th, 1990, Cecilia Pierce took a second run at Pam.


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[Assistant] And this time, she was wired with a microphone and a recording device for what the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office referred to as


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[Assistant] And Pam immediately, somewhere in her pocket. She swallowed it. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Which she must have been sharding herself. Absolutely poop on her pants. And as she's hugging her,


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[Assistant] Pam's hands come dangerously close to brushing the microphone wires. Like she was very, very close to being caught. I'd be like, no touchy. No touchy.


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[Assistant] But the conversation ended up being like rambling, there was a lot of weird chatting.


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[Assistant] There were way more details about the case, and now there was the potential for even more arrests because more names were dropped.


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[Assistant] Throughout the discussion, Pam went out of her way multiple times to insist that Cecilia would be arrested as an accessory if she went to the police.


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[Assistant] She was like, just so you know, like, you'll be in too, so like, don't fuck me over. Oh shit. But Cecilia has already talked to the police and she knows that because it's not true, so she kept going.


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[Assistant] Now, so finally, after what seems like hours, investigators got what they needed, and this is the little bit of it. Cecilia says,


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[Assistant] So he's not gonna say that you offered to pay him, right? He's gonna say he knew about it before it happened, which is the truth. And Pam says, right.


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[Assistant] Well, so then I'll have to say, no I didn't. And then they're either gonna believe me or they're gonna believe JR, 16 years old and in the slammer. And then who? Me, with a professional reputation and a course that I teach? You know, that's the thing.


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[Assistant] Pam was approached by Detective Danielle, I believe it's Pelletier, in her office.


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[Assistant] In the building inside of the high school. And she'd actually already spoken with, uh, Pelletier a few times. So as soon as she saw him, she jumped up and was like excited to see him and he got very theatrical with it. I can't even say I blame him. He said, well, Pam, I have some good news and I have some bad news.


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[Assistant] The good news is that we've solved the murder of your husband. Oh my god, I love it. The bad news is that you're under arrest.


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[Assistant] So Pam was stunned, but obviously she had to follow detective's orders as she was handcuffed and let out of the building. Yea, I mean you don't really have a choice at that point.


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[Assistant] And there were several other detectives from Darien Hampton out there waiting in their cars. So this was like a sting operation. Oh shit.


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[Assistant] And a journalist from Nashua who had shown up at the school after getting an anonymous tip.


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[Assistant] Look it up. So the next day, uh, August 2nd, Pam was arraigned in Derry District Court for what the prosecutor claimed was promoting or facilitating the murder of her husband. Now in an affidavit filed with the county, the attorney general's office said that Pam, quote, aided William Flynn in the planning or commission of the murder.


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[Assistant] And the affidavit makes it clear that it was Billy not Pam who fired the fatal shot. Okay.


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[Assistant] Especially Greg's parents, who had to show up to this arraignment.


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[Assistant] The prosecution, though, was led by Assistant Attorney General Cynthia White, and she, uh, disagreed. She's like, nah. She argued that Pam could be heard on the recording making several allusions to her relationship with Billy.


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[Assistant] The words of the defendant on tape serve to bolster the state's position in two ways.


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[Assistant] First, the statements are incriminating in nature. And secondly, they lend credence to the friend's prior statement to police. Yeah. So basically he's like, she admitted it and it makes sense. And it lines right up with what we thought happened. Yup.


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[Assistant] So of course, the press covering the case were chomping at the motherfucking bit.


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[Assistant] They overlooked some of the more important details of the case, like the fact that Pam wasn't a teacher.


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[Assistant] But it didn't matter. The nation was captivated. It was the first time that anybody had really heard of a case with details as shocking as these ones. So people were following super closely for every last update. And actually, fun fact here.


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[Assistant] It was the first criminal trial in America to be televised from beginning to end. Oh shit! Mmhm. That's crazy. Isn't that crazy?


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[Assistant] On Monday, January 28th, 1991, Billy pleaded guilty to second degree murder, and Pete and JR, uh, pleaded guilty to a charge of being accomplice- accomplices to second degree murder.


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[Assistant] In exchange for their testifying against Pam at her trial, which was supposed to start in early March.


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[Assistant] The pleas were another blow for Pam's defense lawyers.


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[Assistant] Their attempts to suppress the recorded conversation had been denied.


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[Assistant] And they were trying to contain the damage by the press, which was like, that was gonna be hard to do.


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[Assistant] And then they said the thing that you should never say if you're gonna lose a case.


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[Assistant] We're looking forward to it. Oh, that's not good. I just feel like that's never good. No.


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[Assistant] Literally indicted in the middle of a murder trial for soliciting another fucking murder. She is a monstrous monster.


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[Assistant] So her trial started on March 4th, 1991 in Exeter, New Hampshire.


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[Assistant] The state's case was led by Assistant Attorney General Diane Nicolosi, I believe is how you say it.


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[Assistant] And Pam continued to be represented by Mark Sisti and Paul Toomey.


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[Assistant] Now from the moment the trial began, the courtroom was like I said, packed with reporters from print and television media.


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[Assistant] And even though there had been multiple criminal trials in the past, like I said, this one was the first criminal trial to unfold on television in real time, beginning to end.


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[Assistant] And the start of this trial actually coincided with the debut of Court TV.


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[Assistant] Drove to Derry where he and Pete Randall murdered Greg Smart and tried to make it look like it was a robbery. And the attorney there


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[Assistant] Explain to the court that Billy's motivation was Pam.


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[Assistant] And the other boys in the getaway card, they were motivated by money.


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[Assistant] Now finally, even though she wasn't in the room when the murder happened, Nicolosi made it clear that the only reason Greg Smart was murdered by Billy and Pete was because Pam had lied, manipulated, and orchestrated the entire thing. Of course. She was like, Pam did this willingly, intentionally, and even when she was presented with multiple opportunities to call this off,


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[Assistant] Instead, he was just trying to undermine the prosecution's case, like make them doubt that. He paid specific attention to the fact that the most damning testimony was going to come from the killer themselves or the killers.


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[Assistant] And he said that they were only testifying as part of a plea agreement for a lesser sentence, which would put doubt in the jury's mind, of course.


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[Assistant] And then he went on to tell them that what the prosecution planned to present was going to be quote,


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[Assistant] One of the most vile concoctions ever assembled in one courtroom in the state of New Hampshire. Wow, that's, that's intense. They always get so theatrical with it. I was gonna say that's like very exaggerated. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And then finally he ended by saying that Greg's murder was the sole responsibility of three, and this is a quote, quote,


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[Assistant] Three cold-blooded thrill killers fueled by sex, obsession, jealousy, and mental illness.


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[Assistant] The Patrick, sorry, the state called Patrick Pete Randall as its first witness.


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[Assistant] His description of the events on the night of Greg's murder were so matter of a fact and so brutal.


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[Assistant] That Judge Gray actually had to stop the testimony at one point so that Greg's mother could be helped out of the courtroom. Oh god, that's awful.


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[Assistant] Now JR, last time there, the second witness to be called by the state, confirmed the details given in the prosecution's opening statements and in Pete's testimony.


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[Assistant] What? She couldn't conjure that one. And you're a 22 year old woman asking a couple of 16 year old boys how you should act? Of course. In what world? Oi.


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[Assistant] So it was clear, obviously, that the prosecution was attempting to portray or just like showing that Pam was a narcissistic mastermind.


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[Assistant] But the press noted that neither the witnesses nor the accused quote, ever displayed sadness or remorse for the killing.


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[Assistant] So he's trying to sit there and pin the blame on one of them, but the media's like, yeah, none of them seem that upset. It doesn't seem like it to me.


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[Assistant] Ten days into the trial, into Pam's trial, Billy Flynn was finally called to testify for the prosecution.


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[Assistant] His testimony basically said the same thing that Pete and JR had already said.


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[Assistant] But he was the one with all the sensational details about his romance with Pam. Of course. And her reaction in the days before and after the murder.


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[Assistant] He told the jury that Pam would later tell him about finding Greg's body. He said,


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[Assistant] Wow. Like, you have been like dating and married to this man for years and you can't muster up anything? That's cold blooded. He also told the prosecution that his testimony betrayed a promise that he had made to Pam a month before his arrest. My guy. He said, I told her I'd never tell on her because I loved her.


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[Assistant] Because I didn't want to kill Greg. I wanted to be with Pam, and that's what I had to do to be with Pam.


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[Assistant] Everything. Everything. Like him saying those few sets of words says a million words. Wow. So the defense on cross examination.


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[Assistant] Tried to make it seem like Billy had an unreciprocated obsession with Pam.


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[Assistant] And he misunderstood and agreed with them and said, she was the first girl I ever loved and I didn't want her to leave me.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid one day you're gonna come in here and you're gonna be wired by the fucking police and I'm gonna be busted. I would shit my pants.


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[Assistant] So on March 22nd, 1991 now, after 13 hours of deliberation, the jury found Pam Smart guilty of being an accomplice to first degree murder.


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[Assistant] Conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with a witness.


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[Assistant] In the end, multiple jurors would tell the press more than anything else, it was the tapes that convinced them of her guilt.


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[Assistant] And other jurors were convinced because of Pam's demeanor and her attitude on the stand and just how she acted in the courtroom in general.


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[Assistant] According to another juror, everyone commented that Pamela Smart looked like a statue. Her coldness was very striking. Ooh. Creepy. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Now even when she was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole,


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[Assistant] She sat there motionless with absolutely no expression on her face. Yeah, something wrong with that one. Something real wrong with that one. Greg's parents on the other hand were sobbing with relief.


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[Assistant] Now friends of the family and all of the boys involved were also pleased with the verdict.


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[Assistant] Told reporters, she not only took Greg's life, she also took Billy's future. And that's not something he can ever get back.


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[Assistant] No sentence the court could put on her is high enough for the injustice that she's caused.


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[Assistant] Now just after sentencing, Pam was immediately sent to the New Hampshire State Prison for Women to begin serving her sentence.


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[Assistant] And in early 1993, she and her attorneys, of course, appealed the verdict to the state Supreme Court.


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[Assistant] Basically, they argued that the publicity surrounding the case fucked the whole thing up and that Pam never had a chance to receive a fair trial. It's like, girl, she was on tape.


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[Assistant] So the court recognized the media coverage before during, before and during the trial. They were like, yeah, it was unprecedented in state history, but we disagree with you.


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[Assistant] Guarantee the right of a defendant to a trial by a fair and impartial jury.


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[Assistant] This, however, does not require that the jurors be totally ignorant of the facts and issues involved. In these days of swift, widespread, and diverse methods of communication,


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[Assistant] An important case can be expected to arouse the interest of the public in the vicinity.


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[Assistant] Now, the appeal also challenged the recorded conversations though between Cecilia and Pam.


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[Assistant] Pam's attorneys claimed that the police had pressured Cecilia into consenting to the recording.


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[Assistant] And therefore, it should have been excluded from evidence and not presented at the trial.


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[Assistant] In 2014, he got moved to a minimum security facility.


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[Assistant] And in March 2015 he did end up getting paroled and was allowed to reenter the community. Wow.


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[Assistant] The smart family was entirely against this. But the parole board chairwoman at the time, Donna Styrak, I believe is how you say it.


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[Assistant] His frontal lobe developed a bit more and he figured out how to make better decisions in life and hopefully he will be a better person.


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[Assistant] He ended up being granted parole in April of 2015 and was released into the community in June of that year.


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[Assistant] Had no problems behaving in prison or else we wouldn't have ruled him. So there's that.


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[Assistant] Uh, Cecilia Pierce, she tried to go back to her life in New Hampshire, but because the trial was so public, she had a really hard time.


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[Assistant] A few years after that she actually moved back to Seabrook and finally settled in Albany where she actually works now as a registered nurse. Wow.


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[Assistant] She was among the most high profile witnesses in the case and she actually ended up getting a lot of negative attention because of all the interviews that she did with the press.


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[Assistant] And because she ended up selling her story to a production company.


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[Assistant] But the truth, uh, but she said the truth was that she got ten thousand dollars.


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[Assistant] Pam, since she's been incarcerated, she talks to the press as often as she possibly can. Of course she does. She still maintains her innocence, uh, and she still petitions for her release. No one believes you. No. In 2016, she told reporters, I would like to think, I would like people to think of me as a human being.


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[Assistant] I am not the caricature that people think some evil person. No.


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[Assistant] It's a no from them. Yeah, it's a no from them. When they officially denied the request, they cited Pam's ongoing refusal to accept responsibility. And that was her last hope for a sentence reduction. Cue up the tiniest violin in the world.


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[Assistant] Now, she emailed her supporters, which uhm, if you're one of them, get absolutely wrecked. Seriously. Saying that the decision was quote unquote, political.


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[Assistant] Now when Billy was released, Greg's older brother Rick told the Boston Herald, I think he did his time.


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[Assistant] He went on to say that Pam should never be released. 100%.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, Greg's mom Judy passed away less than 10 years after Greg was killed. Her son's murder absolutely destroyed her. And Greg's father too, he passed away in 2010.


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[Assistant] But his brother Rick told the Herald he felt as though his father would agree with him that Billy did his time. And he ended the interview saying, maybe someday I would like to speak to him, meaning Billy.


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[Assistant] Just so I could find out how, exactly what happened from someone who was there. I kind of want to know, but at the same time I just want to move on. He took our brother and my parents' son at a young age.


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[Assistant] I would hope that by now he would realize what he did, and I think he probably does. He's had a lot of time to think about it.


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[Assistant] Mad respect to Rick. But for real, a lot of respect to Rick. So much respect. And then obviously this has been made into like countless movies. Of course it has. I think Nicole Kidman played Pam at one point, which was a very generous compliment. Yeah, it was. Helen Hunt also played her in another movie. Again, a very generous compliment. I think we should just next time


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[Assistant] So yea, that is the wild freaking case that is Pam Smart and the murder of Greg Smart. What a sad story. It really is, through and through.


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[Assistant] There are two people that should never have gotten married. No, never. And it's so sad that they didn't just like get to divorce like a normal couple. That's the thing. Because they absolutely, I think Greg was starting to go in that direction. And it's so sad.


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[Assistant] The littermate syndrome thing is when they get like too bonded and then they hate you.


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[Assistant] You know, eyecats just like sniff each other's nose. To be honest.


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[Assistant] They really are. Let me tell you. It's so weird though seeing that many humans within a one week period. Because we live a life where like we see each other, our spouses, and Mikey. And that's literally it.


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[Assistant] To hug Tom, no, Tom Schwartz was on, and he told people to hug Tom Sandoval if they saw them.


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[Assistant] Man, I can't wait for that reunion, guys! And it's not happening until like the end of May. I know, you keep telling me that and it's almost like you punch me in the face every time.


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[Assistant] Shouldn't we all be so lucky? Shouldn't we all be that goddess? The baddest bitch on the planet. Right? She really is. But you know what? I have a long one for you today. I'm, I'm here for it. There was really no way to transition out of Vanderpump rules into true crime.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, sagoo. But who knows? Uhm, isn't that...


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[Assistant] Quite literally all the money and all the power in the world, but weirdly she spent a good portion of her life like bouncing from one disappointing relationship to the next. Unfortunate. Yeah, every time she entered a new relationship she was more and more jaded from the last one and it was kind of a pattern that was taking shape.


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[Assistant] Doris really seemed to be losing control of herself and her emotions toward like the middle part of her life. Not great. Which could...


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[Assistant] Be part of the reason that she is linked to the suspicious death of one Eduardo Torella.


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[Assistant] But, because he appears in like the later portion of her life, and there's a lot to cover before that,


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[Assistant] We're gonna start at the very beginning before we give too much away. Let's go. Cause I know you guys don't like if we give too much away, so I said, I won't. I won't do it. I won't. I will cater to you, my little babies. And I meant that lovingly, not like you're being a baby.


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[Assistant] I meant like, you are my babies. I meant you are my bebes. My bebes. Actually Moira Rose is on the other side of my mic right now.


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[Assistant] So Doris, she was born on November 22nd, 1912, and from the time she took her first breath, she was among the rarest class of individuals set above and apart from other Americans because of all the money she was born into. It's a whole lot of money in a small fucker. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] So her father was James Buchanan Duke, better known to his friends and family as simply Buck.


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[Assistant] Which I'm like, if you have a motherfucking name like Buchanan, don't you dare shorten it to Buck. Yeah, don't. Buchanan is beautiful. Yeah. I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] He could do whatever he damn well pleased because he was one of the richest men in the world and he was one of the richest men in the world because


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[Assistant] He had inherited his fathers tobacco company and also a power company later.


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[Assistant] So by 1900, he had gained control of a lot of the competing brands and he consolidated all of them and formed the American Tobacco Company.


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[Assistant] Awesome. Yay. So happy about that. This is wild. Eventually he owned almost 93% of the tobacco market in the US. Wow. And a power company on the side. Damn.


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[Assistant] Money? The money. I told you, it's a whole lot of money. That's a lot of money. It's almost all of it actually.


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[Assistant] literal power and tobacco, which is also power at this point. Yeah, I really, I mean, yeah, at that point people thought like smoking cigarettes cured everything. Exactly.


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[Assistant] That's what they called her because her name was Nanaleen, I believe is how you say it. I love a nanny. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So yes, he married Nanalene Nanny Holt Inman in 1907 after a very messy and very public divorce from his previous wife just one year before. Her name was Lillian, but...


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[Assistant] I didn't really look into her to be honest. That's okay. I'm sure Lilian was fine.


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[Assistant] So after her husband's death, she spent years traveling, shopping, being a young society woman.


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[Assistant] Pretty much all I've ever hoped and dreamed of. Yeah. Until she met Ben Duke, who was Buck's younger brother.


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[Assistant] And they met in 1906 at Lake Toxaway Resort.


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[Assistant] Ben ended up writing a letter to his older brother and told him, quote,


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[Assistant] Now Nanny, she brought a huge inheritance to this new marriage, and also her son from that previous marriage, Walker Inman.


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[Assistant] He would be a son, he would go on to carry the Duke legacy. An eh. It would be wonderful. Uh, but Walker was like, fuck all of that. He didn't care.


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[Assistant] He literally said that. That's a direct quote. I don't know where I found it, but it's direct.


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[Assistant] He was not interested. He made it clear from a very early age that he did not wish for Buck to adopt him.


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[Assistant] So luckily, in the spring of 1912, that all changed when at 42 years old Nanny discovered she was pregnant.


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[Assistant] Right? Which like, must have been crazy back then too, because like, we know a lot more about pregnancy now.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Like I don't think she expected to find herself pregnant. No, definitely not in 1912. Exactly. Now that fall she went into labor, actually unexpectedly, and Doris, our girly girl, but like not really, was born in the master bedroom of the Buck and, er, of Buck and Nanny's rented house, which was on New York's 78th Street.


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[Assistant] As she was born, she was surrounded by quote, a fleet of high priced private physicians and nurses. She was just surrounded by money.


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[Assistant] They absolutely did. Yep. They were like, let's make it rain up in here. Let's make it rain for this infant. And this, like, it's really interesting that this happened, but it's also really scary because her birth made headlines in major cities across the country in America. That's terrifying. And of course the press noted that she was now


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[Assistant] The sole inheritor of Buck's 100 million dollar estate?


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[Assistant] Which led to her being nicknamed the richest girl in the world. Ooh, that's a little scary.


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[Assistant] But I mean back then. Back then the news was the news obviously. But it was like social media kind of. Yeah. It's like oof. That's a little scary. And by the way. A lot to put on a baby. A lot to put on a baby. And on her family to shield her from.


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[Assistant] And by the way, so his estate was worth a hundred million then? Today?


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[Assistant] Buck was also a huge germaphobe and he was like incredibly protective of her.


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[Assistant] So he bought a private Pullman car that he named Doris.


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[Assistant] That way the family could travel around New York just like totally isolated from the general public.


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[Assistant] You know, like, people always just, people always take it that extra mile. People stay people. They do. True, like, you said that and I was like, what the hell? And then I was like, no, that makes sense. That's really not. Open up your Venmo. The thought of someone kidnapping her for ransom wasn't far-fetched.


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[Assistant] So Buck was spending money to protect his daughter out of pure fear and constant paranoia and when he wasn't doing that he was showering her and his wife with like super extravagant gifts and artwork and antiques like craziness. Sounds sick.


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[Assistant] You could have whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want, and there is nothing that can't be bought because you have the means to do so.


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[Assistant] So shortly after Doris was born, the family actually moved back to Duke Farms which was their


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[Assistant] It's actually cool to read about Doris because she's from around here. I know, that is cool. She spends most of her time in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island, actually. Oh, that's funny. Yea, like the Newport Mansions will become a thing in this.


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[Assistant] They just got that vibe about it, I just love it. I was like looking at some of them online as I was doing this story just to see, cause I've never been inside of one, have you? No, I don't think I've actually been inside the Newport.


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[Assistant] So they moved back to New Jersey to their, you know, just like small, quaint little farm with 2,700 acres.


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[Assistant] Damn. Nine lakes. Nine lakes? And one and a half miles of stone walls. Huh? So before Doris was born, the property had actually been open to the public. Like they were welcome to come stroll on the grounds.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of diverse wildlife that could be spotted. The landscape was beautiful. It was like visiting a park.


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[Assistant] But when the family returned, Buck was way too scared of having the public roam the property while they were there. I don't blame them. Especially because a lot of interest had peaked in his family. Yeah, of course. So he closed the property.


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[Assistant] And he said he effect- er, it was said he effectively kept the world from his daughter and keeping his daughter from entering the world.


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[Assistant] That's tough. And it's like, the thing is, totally, protect your kid at all costs, but you can't cut them off from the world. I know, that's-


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[Assistant] But then to enter like all the money that they had into it, it's scary.


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[Assistant] Anything she could have wanted. Toys, pets, ponies. But he never really let other children come over to play with Doris.


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[Assistant] Her social skills were lacking to say the least.


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[Assistant] Her parents decided to enroll her in the Brearley School, I think is how you say it.


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[Assistant] It was an all-girls private school on the Upper East Side of New York. Oh, excuse me? Xoxo. Gossip Girl.


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[Assistant] Now school helped Doris dive into different interests in things like music, art, and literature, which those were all things that she really loved to like dive into.


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[Assistant] But school didn't do much to improve her social skills. She was still getting piles and piles of letters from strangers either making threats to her or begging her for money.


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[Assistant] And she would show them to her classmates, very unaware that this was not something they would ever relate to.


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[Assistant] I'd be like, that's wild, you wanna be friends? I'd be like, that's really scary. I'd be like, I'll help you. I wanna help you. Now one friend she did make recalled that Doris was, quote, a smart girl, sardonic and kind of scrawny. But then she went on to say she was definitely something of a pariah among the other kids. That's sad. It was giving me like, uhm,


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[Assistant] A little princess. Remember that movie? Oh my god, you know I've been thinking about that movie. Really? Yea. For some reason the vibes were similar.


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[Assistant] I do too, for the kid. But sadly, things were gonna take...


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[Assistant] In 1925, life shifted really dramatically for her because her father's health started to take a serious decline. As she was getting older, like into her like 10, 11, 12 years, I don't know what the fuck you call those.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the 10, the 11, the 12. Preteen. He was constantly fatigued, he was constantly sick, but now it was becoming clear that


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[Assistant] It's a condition where the body is incapable of absorbing enough vitamin B12. Eek. Yeah. Yeah, that's rough.


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[Assistant] Now Doris was a self-described daddy's girl and Buck's death left a major hole in her life and left her alone with a very cold and very distant mother.


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[Assistant] And of course a full staffed house. Of course. But the year before he died,


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[Assistant] After that, the school was redeveloped and branded as Duke University to honor him. Oh, that one. Some people say that like, he made them rename it after that, but like,


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[Assistant] Now after he died, his will left another 65 million to the school.


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[Assistant] Lushed with cash. And again, three billion dollars today. So she had three billion dollars in cash.


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[Assistant] Damn! She on top of that had control of Duke Farms among other properties. Wow. At that point, she quite literally was the richest girl in the world.


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[Assistant] The entire world. The world, the planet. All of it. The planet. But sadly her inheritance put more of a strain on the relationship she had with her mother because Nanny


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[Assistant] Which I would too, resented the fact that her husband had left everything to their daughter.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine you marry this man's and like, I want my kid to be taken care of or my future kids, but like, they get everything.


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[Assistant] And what was even harder of a hit to take was there actually ended up being a lawsuit where Doris sued Nanny.


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[Assistant] Over the sale of Duke Farms because Nanny wanted to sell the property, but Doris wanted to keep it. So she ended up suing Nanny and the Executors of the Will successfully. Wow.


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[Assistant] And she's a very steadfast girly. I mean yea, so that definitely could be it.


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[Assistant] I like, I don't know any of the inter workings about anything else, but I really wanna do the fan dance. Yea, like you don't wanna like have anything else to do with it, you just wanna do the dress. Yep. The, probably the food. Absolutely. And the fan dance. And the gloves. And the white gloves. I love it. And the gloves.


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[Assistant] Now, most society women would like have this at this time and love it and all that jazz. Doris fucking hated this. She wanted to go off to college. She didn't want to have one of these, but Nanny was like, you are having a coming out party. Of course. Like duh.


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[Assistant] But it marked Doris' entrance into high society. High society! In the world of the elite and the wealthy American families. Cha-ching cha-ching. Which all sounds pretty terrible if you ask me, but like the food and the white gloves and the fan dance? Sign me up. Into it! So, the coming out party, like I said, definitely meant a hell of a lot more to Nanny than it did to Doris.


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[Assistant] Nanny was what, uh, was a member of what was referred to as the Old Guard. Which is just like, the old Thai society.


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[Assistant] No, so she took nanny, she took the rights and responsibilities of society life very seriously.


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[Assistant] While Doris, on the other hand, saw the responsibilities of all this wealth and privilege she had as an inescapable burden.


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[Assistant] At some points, I'm sure. She probably loved it. There was probably some, uh,


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[Assistant] Now, she would tend to hang out, Doris, with a different crowd that Nanny deemed the lower class. Ooh! And she called them undesirables. Wow, I call you an uncrustable.


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[Assistant] And it also probably sent me into like a very...


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[Assistant] Now try as she might to express her disinterest in the high society life that was so important to her mother. Doris could not escape the responsibility or the pressure of her wealth.


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[Assistant] Tolerated Doris's art and musician friends from the Harlem nightlife, but they would literally never do for a husband. In nanny's eyes. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's entirely possible. I couldn't find any valuable sources on that information, but you should look into it. I'm gonna look into it. I think you should. You know?


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[Assistant] Do you know Marnie? Do you? Jenny? Halloween is cool, okay?


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[Assistant] What's the skel- is it Benny the skeleton? Yeah, Benny. He's my favorite. Yeah. But Cromwell, he sounds like a big creep.


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[Assistant] So Jimmy and Doris, they actually did end up marrying in 1935. Doris was 22 and he was 39. Okay.


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[Assistant] The ceremony took place in the library of the Duke's New York home at East 78th Street, which I'm pretty sure is where she was born. Oh. Uhm, and was described by the New York Times as unostentatious and somewhat mysterious. Okay. Which is, uh, the theme of my wedding.


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[Assistant] Now Doris had made it a point to shield herself from the press throughout her entire life, and that's why the wedding was as private as it was. She was sentatious. Very, very private, and I feel that too.


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[Assistant] Now, she and Jimmy made a quick exit after the wedding. They headed to the haba.


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[Assistant] And they got on board an Italian ocean liner that was bound for Egypt, which was where they would spend their honeymoon. Oh okay. Right? My friend actually just went to Egypt. Hi Holly.


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[Assistant] And it looked so fucking beautiful and now I wanna go to Egypt. Let's go to Egypt. Okay, cool.


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[Assistant] Now in the years before Jimmy and Doris were married, Nanny was really confident, like I was just saying, that his wealth was sufficient.


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[Assistant] She seemed to think that his intentions with Doris were genuine. She never thought he was a gold digger.


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[Assistant] Because the financial crisis had caused his family to lose a large amount of their fortune. So he was kind of clinging to his relationship.


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[Assistant] And it seemed to be a way of keeping up appearances and maintaining a lifestyle that he'd gotten used to. Oh no. Versus like being in love. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But still, no matter how right Nanny might have been about this man, her constant criticism of Jimmy


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[Assistant] I think she maybe was. Yeah. Yeah, I'm mad that she's not rad. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Was her desire for privacy and this tendency to avoid the press.


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[Assistant] This was probably a behavior that grew over time, I think, and most likely came from Buck's last words to her. On his deathbed, he had told her, never trust anyone.


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[Assistant] You're like, I gotta throw something important in here. That is solid advice to throw out at the last, at the buzzer. Also like, go see what you want to see in the world.


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[Assistant] Because, like we know, since she was a child, it was this endless line of strangers asking for money, threatening her safety, or prying into her personal habits to write about them in tabloids. Sounds awesome. And even her mom kind of had a way of slipping in and out of those categories, especially when it came to one money.


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[Assistant] And two, how Doris' choices, choices would affect her social status.


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[Assistant] I think she had good intentions at her heart, but it was also always layered with like, well how will people think of us?


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[Assistant] Mother. Yeah. No, it's true. And, and the reason why I think she was like,


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[Assistant] What could come out? Yeah, I'm making sure that you, you aren't gonna tarnish my legacy here. Exactly.


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[Assistant] It could have tarnished her legacy in her eyes because the investigation, for one reason or another, led her to believe that Jimmy was a gay man. And that would not be acceptable for her daughter. Which is lame.


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[Assistant] Now, of course she warned Doris, but I can literally picture Doris rolling her eyes into the back of her head and not giving a shit. Cause she's like, cool mom, bye. And she probably thinks at this point that her mom's gonna say anything to make it so that she doesn't marry Jimmy.


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[Assistant] Now, whether it was because Jimmy wasn't necessarily interested in Doris physically or not, uh, signs of a troubled marriage began almost immediately after they got on the ship headed for Egypt. According to one biographer, quote,


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[Assistant] So like, how much money are you gonna give me annually? I'd be like, I fucked up. Can you sign this tax form for me? Like, god. Yeah, that's not good. Yeah, so this night, uh, laid the foundation. Uh oh. For a marriage where Jamie constantly wanted more and more and more when it came to money, and Doris wanted more and more and more when it came to intimacy.


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[Assistant] So, hey, you brought it back. They went on as a married couple for a good while, with both of them just maintaining affairs on the side, trying not to get caught by the press. Wow. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Now the marriage finally did fall apart though in early 1943 and it was a messy divorce. Oh no. Doris told the press that Jimmy was a reckless spender and he was constantly demanding more money and Jimmy pointed the finger back at her and revealed a ton of the affairs that she had had throughout the years.


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[Assistant] The court did end up siding with Doris, probably because she had more money and influence. Probably. Jimmy got literally nothing and he would spend years contesting the divorce and still begging for more money. Oh no. So the divorce from Jimmy, it really marked the beginning of a new era for Doris.


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[Assistant] New year knew her. That's right. She dove deeper into her interests. She started traveling more. She took tons of trips abroad to Europe and in the last days of World War II.


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[Assistant] Now, it was during one of her European trips that she met, uh,


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[Assistant] Hor- Horfirio Rubirosa, and I did look up how to say that, and I did- I'm doing my best. You're like, and I nailed it if I do say so myself. Maybe. I think I did all right. Now he was a Dominican diplomat, and actually the former son-in-law of a Dominican dictator. Oh. So he was a little messy. He was a little messy. He had a little bit of a lot going on.


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[Assistant] He was still actually married to popular French actress, Danielle De Roux, I believe is how you say it, or dare you.


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[Assistant] Not, not the kindest man. No. But he was still married to this French actor, actress Danielle.


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[Assistant] Dare you, I believe. But he was completely taken with Doris, and she felt the same way toward him.


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[Assistant] Now it was no surprise that not long after meeting, Doris and Rubirosa started an affair that would eventually lead to marriage. Okay. Now by the time she married him, she knew it was highly unlikely that she was ever going to build a relationship on love and mutual respect because she was one of the wealthiest people in the world.


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[Assistant] She just kind of had to accept that most people were attracted to her at least partially because of money.


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[Assistant] Now, this was 10,000 million gajillion percent true of Rubirosa. Eek. He was already known to swap one opportunity or partner out for another if it was for more money. Which is sad. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So, and this is fucking wild. Doris put up 1.5 million dollars for her relationship with him.


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[Assistant] Whoa. A million dollars went to Danielle with the expectation that she would divorce her husband and walk away.


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[Assistant] Now, in true Doris fashion, the ceremony was understated. It took place, I think this is really cool.


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[Assistant] It took place at the Dominican Consulate in Paris, and there was just a handful of guests there. And at that time actually,


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[Assistant] Clearly expected to be showered with expensive and extravagant gifts, including an apartment in Paris and an airplane.


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[Assistant] To get away from all of that, just as she had done with her mother when she was a teenager,


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[Assistant] Paris was getting more and more popular with Americans and jazz musicians, so that was drawing a huge, huge crowds of people who either knew nothing or didn't care about high society.


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[Assistant] That's kinda cool. Yeah, it's awesome. So she could just be another American jazz enthusiast when she was out with them instead of the richest girl in the world. Oh, that's cool. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So after spending more and more time in the club, she actually started sitting in with the bands. Damn. Playing piano and like socializing with the people there who liked her for who she was. That's wild. Not what she could buy them. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Her newfound popularity and acceptance at the Jazz Clubs of Paris


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[Assistant] Only exacerbated the tension between her and her husband, though.


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[Assistant] At first it started as her getting away, but then it was like, I'm sure her eyes started to open and she was like, what the fuck am I doing?


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[Assistant] So the final nail in the coffin came when Rubirosa was named Dominican Republic's ambassador to Argentina, which meant that he was going to have to move to Buenos Aires. What a terrible predicament to be in. What a terrible one.


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[Assistant] And she was especially concerned over fears for her personal safety. So she decided to stay back in the US.


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[Assistant] But, she brought, er, she bought him yet another airplane that he could use whenever he wanted to see her. My god. To buy an airplane.


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[Assistant] And she was like, for whenever you want to see me, but he like barely came home to see her. Of course. Sad. Yeah. So the distance clearly made things worse. And by 1948, her second marriage had completely fallen apart. They were barely together a year.


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[Assistant] But this time she had planned ahead and they had signed a prenup that actually I read in one source the US government helped pen this prenup. Holy shit. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it allowed for a quick divorce, but also unfortunately required her to pay him


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[Assistant] $25,000 a year for the rest of his life. Holy shit. Which she did until 1965 when he was unfortunately killed in a car accident. Wow. Now allegedly their relationship actually never truly ended, sexually at least. Oh. And she was so upset over his death when he did die, she spent several days in bed.


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[Assistant] And I think it's also like apparent how much she loved him because this relationship I think changed her fundamentally. Really? She knew.


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[Assistant] That everybody wanted something from her and throughout the year she had learned to use that to her advantage.


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[Assistant] But I think years of trying not to let that bother her were starting to catch up. Yeah, that makes sense. She was spending more and more time at the jazz clubs and the lifestyle in her case was a bit of a catch 22. She was learning more and more about the music and the culture and like having really a lot of fun with that.


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[Assistant] And in 1950, Doris invited him to stay with her in Hawaii.


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[Assistant] Uhm, she had part of the house renovated to accommodate musical performances.


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[Assistant] Now, she had cultivated a lot of relationships with the people in the jazz scene.


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[Assistant] And a lot of these people she considered close associates.


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[Assistant] She struggled massively with social anxiety, and he understood that, and like, could help her.


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[Assistant] It does. I get social anxiety. Me too. I think everybody does. It makes things very difficult. Just like varying degrees though. Oh yeah. And I think hers was like on the higher end of the spectrum. Yeah, for sure.


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[Assistant] But eventually their friendship, you know, Joey and Doris here, grew into a romantic relationship.


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[Assistant] And in 1953 Doris actually bought a home for them in LA where they could unwind. Unwind. This is my unwinding home.


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[Assistant] And this is where we watch the spooky stories. Exactly. Imagine. Imagine. Now according to her biographers, Doris's purchase of the house in LA, quote, implied a commitment to Castro.


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[Assistant] But she had only made the decision to buy the place after her on and off again relationship with another man, novelist Louis Bromfield appeared to be going nowhere.


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[Assistant] Yes. Now the end of the affair with that man's freed up more of Doris's time, so she refocused that time to her relationship with Joey.


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[Assistant] Now, by 1954, Joey had actually assembled a small jazz combo.


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[Assistant] With Doris, and they were performing together in small clubs.


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[Assistant] With Doris in disguise so she couldn't be recognized.


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[Assistant] Bitch, I literally wrote that in the script. Oh my god, I love that. I literally wrote that. I love it. I also said I couldn't help but picture her wearing a sea-a-wig and playing a saxophone. Right? Right?


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[Assistant] In contact, close contact I'll say, with a lot of questionable characters. Yeah. Including those who are more than willing to sell her drugs.


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[Assistant] She's getting a little more on drugs throughout this time period, which we all know doesn't lead to wonderful, wonderful things. No. Always. Now, by 1956, Doris's world had undergone a dramatic and unexpected transformation. In a very short amount of time, she had gone from introverted socialite


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[Assistant] To secret jazz performer. And this is where I wrote, it's giving Duke Silver.


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[Assistant] She was literally traveling around the world at this point, performing in some of the most prominent jazz clubs, of course, still in disguise.


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[Assistant] And while she may have been privately living out her fantasies, she was like, I think she was really going through it, I think mentally, and then I think the drugs didn't help.


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[Assistant] And she couldn't ignore the reminders of a lot of past failures starting to creep in around her.


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[Assistant] After he passed, she learned that Rubirosa, because this was before he had passed too, had married socialite and her former rival Barbara Hutton. Uh oh.


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[Assistant] And the disappointments and heartbreak caused her to retreat even further into her secret lifestyle.


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[Assistant] Which made her dive even further into drug use and casual sexual encounters. Oh.


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[Assistant] By the early 1960s, her relationship with Joey Castro started to become more strained because of that.


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[Assistant] Mostly because she was also reluctant, reluctant excuse me, to fully commit to their relationship.


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[Assistant] Joey really wanted to get married, but Doris was like, no. And according to her cousin, Pony Duke, Doris loved Jo- Pony Duke. Pony Duke, isn't that great?


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[Assistant] Doris loved Joey's music and appreciated his companionship, but quote, was not about to get married again.


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[Assistant] She didn't want to get married again. She'd been scorned twice. I was gonna say, I can't, yeah. You can't really blame her. So instead she, quote, orchestrated a strange sort of marriage ceremony that was not really a marriage ceremony to appease Joey.


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[Assistant] Now the sham marriage did ease tensions for a little bit, but the fights were gonna start back up again.


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[Assistant] And things took a dramatic turn for the worse in June of 1963, when during one of these intense arguments,


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[Assistant] That's not a normal fight. She stabbed him, y'all.


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[Assistant] That's not a normal argument. That's, if you are grabbing any kind of knife to stab your partner in the midst of an argument, it's time to walk away.


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[Assistant] Not guilty in all of this either. Yeaah. And we'll get there.


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[Assistant] He was totally cut off from the life of luxury that he'd been enjoying with Doris for a decade at this point.


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[Assistant] So as a result, he filed a shit ton of lawsuits and divorce suits demanding financial compensation, anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000. Oh. I guess it just like depended on how he felt that day. Yeah, you know. Yeah. But he also wanted part ownership of the house in LA.


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[Assistant] Now among other things, his suits alleged that they had been married twice.


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[Assistant] First in Rhode Island in 1956, and then again in Philadelphia in 1960.


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[Assistant] But in response Doris filed for and was awarded a restraining order in May of 1964.


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[Assistant] Which barred him from ever publicly claiming to be her husband.


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[Assistant] He had allegedly broken her jaw at one point in 1966.


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[Assistant] After she pulled the plug on his record company which she owned. What the fuck?


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[Assistant] The morning after she fled to Hollywood to go to Newport with her designer,


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[Assistant] But they were only going to protect her for so long, and she knew that.


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[Assistant] Now, that knowledge and that wear were starting to show in her personality.


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[Assistant] Her experimentation with drugs paired with her mental struggles, that was starting to make her a lot more impulsive.


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[Assistant] And that was becoming more clear, especially in the violent fight she was starting. Yeaah. I mean, she literally stabbed her. Yeaah. Sword of husband. Yeaah. Her fake husband.


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[Assistant] They were not going to be the last time she became violent. And the next time should have come with greater consequences.


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[Assistant] So even though she felt more and more comfortable with the LA nightlife through Joey,


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[Assistant] During the 1950s she was kind of retreating further into herself, and at the same time she was surrounding herself.


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[Assistant] And surrounding herself with what her cousin referred to as a colorful group of Hollywood types. Oh. Which included Eddie Torella.


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[Assistant] And I would also assume that he was probably referring to her, uh, butler, Bernard Lafferty, and this other woman, Shandi Heffner.


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[Assistant] Who Doris actually ended up adopting when Shandy was like 35 and Doris was in her like 60s or 70s.


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[Assistant] It's like a sidetrack story that I can't get into here because we've been here for hours. Okay. But please go look into that.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, I will. It is wild. Okay, yeaah. Okay. Yeaah. I would definitely- I'm gonna accept that information. Definitely read some of the biographies that I'll link in the show notes and the variety- uh, variety, Vanity Fair articles written about her. But right now we're gonna focus on Eddie. Okay. Now, it's crazy though, like that, that-


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[Assistant] So anyways, Doris met Eddie Torella in LA in 1959. This was before she had, uhm, cut Joey off. And that's how they met. He was an aspiring interior designer and occasionally moonlit as a nightclub singer, which I think is really fun.


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[Assistant] It's also how Lady Gaga, like, got big, I'm pretty sure. There you go. But didn't she used to sing in night clubs?


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[Assistant] That's a deep cut. Yeah. I wanna watch The Hills now. Yeah. But Eddie.


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[Assistant] He had played some of those same venues that Joey had played, because remember he's also like a singer guy.


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[Assistant] And Joey had learned that Torella's real passion in life was for design. And while they were still together,


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[Assistant] Joey told Doris about Eddie because it just so happened she was looking for an interior designer. Ah, of course, she's rich. So it was Joey who suggested she take a chance and hire Eddie.


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[Assistant] By all accounts, Eddie was a charming, popular, and super super talented dude. In high school, his classmates actually referred to him as Playboy of the Western Front.


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[Assistant] Well, like high school kids were like way better back then. That was like the 40s and 50s. I feel like they all had like transatlantic accents and they were just like, hey. These are like high school kids that like had cigarettes rolled up into their like, which like don't smoke cigarettes, but like back then it was cool. You know? So, after graduating from Dover High School, he had pursued a career as a dancer and an artist.


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[Assistant] At the same, as he was like trying to pursue that, he got drafted into World War II.


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[Assistant] Now, then he decided to move out to LA where he started gardening and he found work with famous clients like Alan Ladd and Peggy Lee. Oh. Yea, he was like in touch with big people. Damn.


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[Assistant] He was an incredibly hard worker. He really never had any trouble finding a job, especially through word of mouth of these very famous influential people. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It was just that he struggled to maintain an interest in one job or one field for a long time.


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[Assistant] But because he refused to join a union, it limited the work he could get. So to make extra money,


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[Assistant] He was singing in the night clubs where he met Joey. Just moonlighting. Moonlighting.


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[Assistant] Eddie impressed the shit out of her when he redesigned each greenhouse into a garden that represented a different ecosystem or part of the world. Shut the fuck up. That's awesome. How fucking cool is that? I wanna see that. Right?


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[Assistant] But, she had also gained a new companion. And at this point,


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[Assistant] So she wasn't interested in a romantic relationship with a man, she just missed companionship, which she had found in Eddie.


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[Assistant] And he was the ideal companion because he was a gay man. He wasn't after her for like love or anything like that.


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[Assistant] She knew that he would stick by her and not lose interest in her sexually, and at the same time, he was funny, talented, and also nice to look at.


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[Assistant] Now according to Ponyduke, Eddie quote, was the mixture of masculinity and taste that Doris Duke found so very attractive. And the perfect ornament for Doris as she aged.


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[Assistant] I was like wow. Damn. But her dramatic and theatrical aesthetic was also a perfect match for Eddie because he was just starting to make a name for himself in the theater and film industry. Very multifaceted man.


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[Assistant] I know, really good, just like, he looks friendly, doesn't he? He does. He's got a friendly face. I like his face. I'd give him a little smooch. But probably not, cause he'd be like, get away from me.


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[Assistant] Now before long, Doris had actually made space for Eddie in all of her houses and apartments, which there's a lot of them. He always had his own room wherever they went. He could have privacy when they traveled together.


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[Assistant] But aside from him getting to like sleep in his own space, Doris was starting to dominate all of his time. Because remember, she doesn't have a man's right now.


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[Assistant] And she, she's somebody that needed to have someone. Yeah, I'm starting to see that about her. She treated Eddie like a romantic partner in all ways other than sexually.


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[Assistant] And a lot of times she would actually get jealous if she wasn't feeling like his first priority. But like, they're not together. Yeah, so it's like, uh. And that was a lot for him. And by the mid 19- oh sorry, I just kicked you in the foot. I was kicking my feet. Foot five. But by the mid 1960s, her demands were starting to wear on him. He was on the payroll and happy for the work.


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[Assistant] It was. One of those friends, one of his friends said he hated those nights. The nights that he worked for her and had to spend time with her.


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[Assistant] But as tired as he was, he was trying to stick with it as long as he could, cause he had bills, he had debt, and working for Doris paid a pretty penny. Yeah.


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[Assistant] As she got older and started cutting more and more people out of her life, Doris was actually starting to seem a lot more like the generation before her that she used to hate. Yeah. Her mom's generation that treated working people


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[Assistant] Like, that people that were working for them like the help. That's how she was kind of starting to act.


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[Assistant] She was getting that attitude and that's something that Eddie was starting to really hate the most. It was making it harder and harder for him to stick around. And he also felt like he was getting pulled in another direction. He really wanted to make a name for himself in Hollywood.


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[Assistant] And it actually seemed like that dream was headed in the right direction. Because by 1965, his work in LA,


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[Assistant] Was finally paying off, and he had landed a job doing the set design for The Sandpiper, which was starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.


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[Assistant] Who were they? I don't know. Two relative unknowns. Yeah, just like credited briefly. Yeah. Then in 1966, film producer Martin Ransohoff. Is that how you say it? I think that's how you say that. Sounds good to me. Him.


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[Assistant] He offered Eddie the production design job on Don't Make Waves, which was a movie starring Tony Curtis and Sharon Tate.


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[Assistant] Oh, Sharon T. Yeaah. And it was due to start production that fall.


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[Assistant] Now this opportunity was like exactly what he was hoping for. And it was proof to him that he could make it in Hollywood. He was starting to make strides. And it was also proof that he could get out from Doris's thumb.


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[Assistant] Doris lost her GD mind when Eddie told her about the job offer. Yeah, I was thinking it would happen.


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[Assistant] And she thought of every last thing she could offer him to stay, but he just wasn't committing one way or the other.


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[Assistant] And she invited him to come to her family estate in Newport, Rhode Island for the fall.


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[Assistant] Eddie did finally cave and he agreed to spend the fall in rough point with Doris. And that was a decision that was going to change his life forever.


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[Assistant] Eddie arrived at Rough Point early in October of 1966, and he had still planned actually to work on Don't Make Waves.


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[Assistant] But at the time he was really behind on taxes, so when Doris offered him more money than he was making before, he couldn't refuse. He had to go there with her.


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[Assistant] And then return to Hollywood and begin building the career that he wanted, and he was finally going to be free.


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[Assistant] So it's really unclear what happened on the evening of October 7th, but by most accounts, Doris's mental state was not very good that night. Eek. In the months leading up to that fall at Roughpoint, she had been drinking a lot more than usual. She was still using drugs.


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[Assistant] And she was experiencing very intense mood swings and depression that related to her failed relationship with Joey.


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[Assistant] And then the most, er, and then the recent death of Rubirosa. This is what he did die. And it was, that was among like many other things too.


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[Assistant] Now, she could've, she for most of her life was used to getting what she wanted. She even meant she could get from them what she wanted.


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[Assistant] She had rented a 1966 Dodge Polara station wagon to use while she and Eddie were in Newport.


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[Assistant] On the evening of the 7th when she was not in a very good headspace.


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[Assistant] They got into the station wagon a little after 4pm. They were going to actually meet with the president of the Newport Preservation Society.


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[Assistant] Because Doris wanted to discuss her interest in funding a project.


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[Assistant] As he turned around to start back walk, walking back to the car.


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[Assistant] Shifted the car into drive and quote, press down so hard on the accelerator that she left tire wide gouge marks in the gravel.


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[Assistant] Oh my, the car sped forward, struck Eddie, which sent him flying up onto the hood.


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[Assistant] Then she tapped the brakes. He rolled off the car and landed in the middle of Bellevue Avenue.


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[Assistant] Holy shit. She stopped the car momentarily while Eddie laid screaming in the middle of the road, and then she hit the accelerator again.


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[Assistant] Drove forward, crushing Eddie under the front tires. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Drove through a fence and came to a stop when she finally hit a tree. Holy shit.


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[Assistant] So days later, an autopsy would show that the first impact had broken Eddie's hip.


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[Assistant] No more than five minutes later, it's said, where they found Doris in a daze behind the wheel of the car.


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[Assistant] Eddie, er, excuse me, Edward Angel, who was the first officer to arrive.


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[Assistant] He remembered seeing a small amount of blood coming from Doris's mouth.


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[Assistant] And his report describes that as a steering wheel injury. But other than that, she was physically fine. As he approached the car, she jumped from the driver's seat and just started frantically pacing back and forth.


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[Assistant] And then she ran back into her mansion looking for someone named Ed.


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[Assistant] Police escorted her to the nearby Newport Hospital where she was treated for facial cuts and severe shock. But other than that, she was literally fine. Oh no.


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[Assistant] So the next day- This is very upsetting. It's horrible. Yeaah. The next day, the local paper, the Newport Daily News, ran with the headline, Doris Duke kills friend in car crash.


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[Assistant] The article was like very light on information and noted that police chief Joseph Radus, or yeah, Radus, could not be reached for comment on the case. Ooh. And reporters were told that he would not be available that day for questions.


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[Assistant] It would actually be two days before the police chief made a statement to the press about the death of Eddie Torella. And when he did...


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[Assistant] And it was determined that Eddie's death was the result of an unfortunate accident. Oh.


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[Assistant] She slid over into the driver's seat to drive the car out onto the street


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[Assistant] She told police it was something we'd done hundreds of times before.


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[Assistant] But this time she said, quote, the car leaped forward. And after that, everything was a blank.


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[Assistant] Cars usually like don't leap forward on their own. I was just gonna say. I've never had that experience. The old car leapt forward defense. It's very similar to dog ate my whole life. Yeaah, that's not a great defense.


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[Assistant] The only other information that the police was, the police chief was willing to report on was that as far as he knew, Eddie and Doris were, quote, on very good terms.


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[Assistant] No they were not. No, no the hell they were not. They were literally arguing as they got into the car and he was planning on leaving and she was begging him not to. Oh no.


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[Assistant] He responded to questions from the Newport Daily News.


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[Assistant] And the police chief told reporters that Torella's death was definitely an accident, quote.


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[Assistant] But times have changed and people cared a lot less in 1966 about this random American socialite. Times they are a changin'. They were.


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[Assistant] In Newport, the press were super critical of the way that this was handled and the way that the police released information. And they felt actually like the police chief had handled similar incidents poorly.


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[Assistant] Because in the years past, he had written off crimes like this that involved the rich summer residence. Ah, mhm. Shocking. Even though people were upset,


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[Assistant] Were to remain a mystery. And as far as Doris Duke was concerned,


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[Assistant] Eddie Torella's death was nothing more than a tragic accident, and she went on to live the rest of her life saying so.


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[Assistant] Fuck. So the following year, Eddie's five siblings filed a wrongful death suit against Doris in the Superior Court of Rhode Island.


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[Assistant] They were seeking 2.5 million dollars in damages, and they alleged that Doris had quote, negligently and carelessly operated the car that led to their brother's death, which is literally the truth.


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[Assistant] Now the case actually eventually made its way to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in 1973.


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[Assistant] They were also treated terribly by her legal team. They made it seem like Eddie was, like, worse. Like they made it seem like he was worse than Doris somehow. What the fuck? Yeah, very strange. And in the, uh, sorry I messed up, hold on.


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[Assistant] Oh, Selene, what I meant was, it was worse in the way that the family was treated by the legal team during the trial, particularly when it came to their brother's legacy.


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[Assistant] They described him as an opportunist who hung around famous people, hoping their talent and fame would rub off on him.


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[Assistant] But, by the early 1990s, she was a fucking shell of herself.


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[Assistant] After Eddie's death, she pulled even more into herself and she became almost entirely reclusive. And more and more people were cast out of her circle.


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[Assistant] In the end, there was only a very small group of doctors, lawyers, and


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[Assistant] When she turned 79 in 1992, allegedly her butler talked her into getting a facelift.


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[Assistant] But on October 28th, 1993, Doris Duke did die of a cardiac arrest at 80 years old.


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[Assistant] To the butler, Bernard Lafferty. I knew it. And a lot of people speculate on his motivations and whether or not he had something to do with accelerating her death, I'll say.


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[Assistant] Especially uhm, the accident that murdered Eddie Torella. Yeaah, that's a big one. Yeaah. But that all changed in the summer of 2020.


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[Assistant] Whoa. I love Vanity Fair. I do too. I actually just signed up to get their hard copies too. Nice. Cause I had online access and then I got like signed out for some reason and I was like, ooh, give me hard copies. Yeah, they have great articles. They do.


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[Assistant] Now Peter Lance, he had actually been born and raised in Newport, and he remembered not only Eddie's death, but the controversy and the suspicion surrounding it. A lot of people in town believed that there was a cover-up.


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[Assistant] And the story he wrote prompted a flood of comments and memories.


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[Assistant] What many accept as the truth about Eddie's death.


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[Assistant] What? Bob Walker was a 13 year old paper boy living in Newport when Eddie Torello was killed. And on the afternoon of the quote unquote accident,


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[Assistant] He was out on his route delivering papers near the Roughpoint Mansion.


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[Assistant] When he heard a commotion coming from the direction of a massive estate.


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[Assistant] And he said because it was usually such a calm and quiet area, it was very easy to hear that these people were definitely pissed off at each other.


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[Assistant] He said the argument was followed by silence and then quote, the roar of a motor, the crash and the screaming of a man.


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[Assistant] He could hear the accident happen and rush to the scene, arriving well before the police did.


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[Assistant] And when he got to the gates, he said Doris was just getting out of the car.


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[Assistant] And was staring down at the wreckage when he rode up on his bicycle


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[Assistant] Doris turned to him, pointing and screaming, you better get the hell out of here.


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[Assistant] Oooooh, that just gave me chills. And then she began what he described as a kind of crouched pacing in front of the car, like she was trying to block his view of whatever was beneath it. And she kept yelling at him, get out of here, now!


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[Assistant] So Bob was completely shaken by this. And as far as he could tell, she wasn't hurt. So he got back on his bike and got out of there because he hadn't, that's all he had seen. Yeaah. He's like, what the fuck? But when he got his bundle of papers for delivery the next day, he saw that headline about the accident and he read the article.


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[Assistant] But everything in the paper didn't match what he had seen and heard that afternoon, so he ran home to tell his father and explain what had happened the day before. But he got a very different reaction than what he was expecting.


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[Assistant] When he got home and he told his dad everything, his dad grabbed him by the shirt and slammed him up against the wall and told him


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[Assistant] Now you listen to me, son. You will never, ever tell anybody this story again. You will not tell your brother. You will not tell your friends.


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[Assistant] Bob Walker did not understand, because his dad was usually


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[Assistant] Completely adamant that his children always tell the truth, but Bob said he was so serious that it was scary and he didn't want to say anything to anybody about what he had seen until years and years later.


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[Assistant] So years, like way down the road years later, as his dad was declining in health, Bob asked his dad why he reacted that way. And this is what his dad told him.


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[Assistant] You know, son, at the time when you told me the story, I recognized that you could have shown motive and intent. I was concerned that you as a key witness could have gone, or could have been doing your paper route on the ocean drive and a truck could have come up on you from behind.


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[Assistant] The life of my child was more precious to me than that woman on Bellevue Avenue. That's why I reacted the way I did.


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[Assistant] So basically he was saying like, that woman has all the money in the world and all the power. And I was protecting you. You a little informant, anything could have happened to you or our family. And I love you more than I love anyone in this world.


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[Assistant] And the thing is, even if Bob had gone to the police and


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[Assistant] Spilled everything that he had seen that day, it wouldn't have made a difference. No. Because...


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[Assistant] Exactly. But literally the reason why Eddie's death was covered up is because she had so much money and power and she was doing so much for the community that they were like,


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[Assistant] Okay, it didn't happen. Like it's, we'll take blood money for you to restore these homes. Damn. So as Peter dug deeper into Bob Walker's story, he found that there were other people who had come to similar conclusions about Eddie's death.


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[Assistant] His report concluded there was no way this could have been an accident, and that Torella's death was most certainly intentional. And he also learned that right after the accident,


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[Assistant] Doris hired the county's acting medical examiner.


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[Assistant] The one who was literally filing the autopsy and the death certificate as her private doctor.


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[Assistant] And they especially felt that pressure after Peter Lance's book, Homicide at Rough Point, which I definitely recommend reading, was published.


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[Assistant] Now unfortunately, the reinvestigation of the case was just as doomed as the initial case. And just after a few days of review. Days.


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[Assistant] For that reason, it appears that this will continue to be a case that will have to be left to the court of public opinion.


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[Assistant] So they essentially said, you can think whatever you want and you're probably right, but according to us, nah.


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[Assistant] But as far, exactly, but as far as Peter and pretty much all of the residents of Newport, Rhode Island are concerned,


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[Assistant] The police had all the evidence that they needed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Doris Duke intentionally murdered Eddie Torella.


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[Assistant] But it seemed that even 30 years after her death, nobody wanted to fuck with Duke family name. Wow. Trust no one. Trust no one. And that's the really, really sad story of the death of Eduardo Torella. That is very sad. Right?


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[Assistant] What a great one. Yeah. Like shit. I definitely recommend like looking even more into Doris because I'm sure that felt like a very long episode, I think it might have been. But there was so many things that I ended up skipping over because we could have just been here for like hours and hours. Wow. That's so, that's a wild story. She lived a


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[Assistant] An episode pissed off. Cause my friends don't want to hear me when I'm pissed off. They want to hear me when I'm happy. And guess what?


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[Assistant] We're happy because Elena found a new song on TikTok by the raddest girlie that's ever graced this planet. Her style is unmatched. Her voice is a heathen, but like in the best way. She is.


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[Assistant] Chinchilla music, and I think it's chinchilla underscore music.


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[Assistant] I'm not kidding you, this song, I think the full song doesn't come out until like April 21st, I think it is? Yea. But she has been like promoting it with this snippet of it.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, it will- every time she posts it, people are like, why do- why am I feral right now? Like it makes you just wanna go like, fuck shit up. Like catch us on April 21st, like-


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[Assistant] You know? But I wanna sing this song out in the sunroof. Hell yeaah. I wanna, we are gonna blast that song in this studio. Every day. We're gonna like, we're gonna fuck shit up. You are?


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[Assistant] And he got these clings that make rainbows all over the room when the sun hits it. And it is so wondrous and magical and whimsical and it makes me so happy. It's iconique. And now when they're, even when the light is coming in harshly, it doesn't feel harsh because it's like, well, it's a rainbow. Cause it's a rainbow.


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[Assistant] Nor do I. Whatever, they support it, that's all we care about. Just buy the rainbow ones, why the fuck not? What are you going to talk about today, bish? So we've had some gnarly ones, some gnarly cases lately, and we've also got some lined up that are going to blow your socks off. Cause our anniversary is coming up. Our five year anniversary, and we've got quite


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[Assistant] We got something planned. We have a couple things planned. And it's something a lot of people have asked for for five full years, and mama has been holding on to it, waiting for the right time, and this is the right time.


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[Assistant] But we've got some, even before that, we have some really gnarly, intense, pretty...


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[Assistant] It has ghost stories in it, it has a curse in it, it has apples in it. It's called multifaceted look it up. Yea, but it's got a true, it's got several true crime elements to it actually. And then the second one I'm going to do, because this is just going to be two random, you know, stories that have to do with curses, is the curse of the movie, The Omen.


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[Assistant] Which, you might have heard that there's a curse with the omen, but when you really dig into it, that shit is wild. Gnarly. Yea, super gnarly. So the first one we're gonna do is the curse of Micah Rood.


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[Assistant] Micah or Mike? It's Micah. Micah. But, yea, but it got turned into Mike later down the road. Oh, okay. Because that's what we do, you know. That's weird. We just make everything shorter. I like the name Micah. I do too.


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[Assistant] So Mike Arude, also referred to as Mike sometimes in several literatures. Everybody has a nickname. You know, he was a farmer in what is now Franklin, Connecticut in the 1720s. That's my cat's name. So New England.


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[Assistant] So he came from a little bit of chaos. Uhm, he himself was known for at least a time to be a very nice man, but he developed some issues later that may be explained when you take a look at his family. Okay. So Micah's father,


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[Assistant] His name was Thomas Rood. I'd like to give a quick little trigger warning. We are going to mention incest. Oh, horrible. He, Thomas Rood, so Micah's father, was charged and convicted for incest.


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[Assistant] They'd become a little sus when they saw that Sarah being unwed in the 1720s.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in 1672 they arrested Thomas Rood and actually hanged him. Good. And hanged him for the crime of incest. And interestingly, he is the only person in America to ever be executed for the crime of incest.


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[Assistant] And so they agreed that she had been raped. Like, she did not participate in incest, as most people do not.


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[Assistant] But this is what the original texts say about her sentencing, cause I was like, excuse me? Yeah, what? It says, the sentence of the court is that she be severely whipped on the naked body once at Hartford and once at Norwich, that others may hear and fear and do no more such abominable wickedness.


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[Assistant] So they said, don't get raped. Don't get raped. Wow. By a family member. Wow. Especially. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And got whipped on the naked body publicly twice. For being raped.


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[Assistant] The trauma sandwich there, I can't even handle. Like that is...


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[Assistant] I, my brain won't even compute it. Like publicly in front of people? Oh my god. So it's like now that you've been raped and are having to deal with that, let's strip you naked in front of people and whip you. Ah. Yeah. So uhm, Micah.


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[Assistant] How did he? He got far away from that situation. He didn't want anything to do with that, you know, that legacy. And so he decided to start over as a farmer in Franklin alone. He was like, bye. So he set up his farm in 1699 and he was respected. He was moderately good at farming. I wouldn't say he was like stellar.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say he was gonna win any blue ribbons. No. You know? But like, he wasn't as good as I am at keeping a houseplant alive.


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[Assistant] He came to me a little worse for wear, so I'm gonna... He though, okay. It feels like a he. Billy Loomis. Name it Billy Loomis. There you go, Billy Loomis. He's worse for wear. He came to us a little worse for wear. You know? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, but back to Micah, he was moderately good, like I said, he was alright. Me too. And he was said to be someone who helped people, he was social, he gave people food and stuff from his farm. A good dude. Someone you wanna have to round. Hmm.


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[Assistant] That's the story you hear. But then the other story, oh there's two, is a bunch of people who say he was weird, strange, and mean.


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[Assistant] Or he just pissed off some people and they're loudly telling everybody about it. I was gonna say, maybe.