Homicide at Rough Point
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Peter Lance, author of HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, debunks Doris Dukes claim that she accidentally killed Eduardo Tirella. - NY PostIn the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire.Minutes later, she crushed him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon as they were leaving Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate in Newport, RI, the storied resort.In a murderous quid-pro-quo, the local police quickly ruled the incident an unfortunate accident and Doris began giving a fortune to Newport, restoring 70 colonial-era homes that quickly turned it into a tourist Mecca. In 2018, Lance, who started his career as a cub reporter for The Newport Daily News eight months after Tirellas death, began a re-examination of the case and proved that the mercurial tobacco heiress got away with murder.In a riveting, doggedly researched book with 105 illustrations -- including never-before seen forensic files -- Lance, a five-time Emmy winner, rewrites history and finally restores the reputation of Eduardo Tirella, a gay Renaissance man and war hero whom Duke went to great lengths to erase from the history of her troubled life.Praise for HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT:In his meticulous new tome, Lance tells the untold story of how Doris Duke, the richest woman in America got away with murdering a gay man, her designer and art curator Eduardo Tirella. - Diane Anderson-Minshall, CEO Pride Media in The Advocate.This book has rocked the world of publishing, its rocked the world of journalism and true crime junkies are talking about it from Coast to Coast. - Frank Morano WABC RADIOA page turning look into the world of elite influence, true crime and a systemic coverup that has rocked a New England summer resort city - Bart
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