What do jewelry and architectural preservation have in common? For one thing: Doris Duke. The so-called “richest girl in the world,” worth some $1.2 billion when she died in 1993, had many ...

The heiress of a vast fortune at the tender age of 12 (after her father, James Buchannan Duke, a tobacco titan and the namesake of Duke University, passed away), Doris Duke wasn’t your conventional ...

HONOLULU -- The Honolulu Academy of Arts is exhibiting the Doris Duke Jewelry Collection through Dec. 31 in the Textile Gallery. American heiress Doris Duke inherited Victorian heirloom jewelry and ...

For as long as there have been wealthy consumers with an eye for beauty, private patronage has given way to some of history’s greatest works of art. Michelangelo had the Medici, Rothko had the de ...