WEALTHIEST WOMAN IN AMERICA
| HUGE INHERITANCE NEW YORK, November 21. To-morrow, when she will celebrate her twenty-first birthday, Miss Doris Duke will inherit a fortune of approximately 53,000,000 dollars left by her father, the tobacco multimillionaire, in 1925. She will be the richest woman in America, if not in the world. At the same time she will become a trustee of the Duke University of North Carolina, to which her father gave 40,000,000 dollars, provided the original name of Trinity University was changed to Duke University. The total estate at Mr Duke's death was valued at 101,000,000 dollars.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21020, 23 November 1933, Page 7
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