AMERICAN HEIRESS
WORLD’S RICHEST WOMAN ? FORTUNE OF £10,600,000 (Received Nov. 22, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 21. To-morrow, reaching lick twenty-first birthday, Aliss Doris Duke inherits n fortune of approximately' £10,000,000, which was left by lifer father, tho tobacco multi-millionaire, in 102 A. She becomes tho richest woman in America, if not in the world, and, at the same time, becomes a trustee of lire Duke University, North'Carolina, to which her father gavo £8,000,000, provided that the original name of Trinity University was changed to Duke.'
The total estate,at Air Duke’s death was valued at £20,200,000.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 8
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96AMERICAN HEIRESS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18252, 22 November 1933, Page 8
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