RICHEST GIRL WEDS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20540, 15 February 1935, Page 1

RICHEST GIRL WEDS.

Round-the-world Honeymoon for Heiress. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 13. Miss Doris Duke, America’s richest heiress, to-day became the bride of James Cromwell, a member of a distinguished family. The couple are departing on a round-the-world honeymoon. The news of the wedding almost displaced the Hauptmann case in the papers, many devoting at least three pages to the ceremony, accounts of the Duke fortune, which is estimated at 133,389,000 dollars, and biography of the bride and bridegroom. On November 21, 1933, Doris Duke attained her 21st birthday and inherited a fortune, then estimated at approximately 53,000.000 dollars. This fortune was left her by her father, the multimillionaire tobacco grower and manufacturer, who died in 1925. Simultaneously she became the richest girl in the United States, if not in the whole world, and trustee of the Duke University of North Carolina, to which her father gave 40,000,000 dollars provided that the original name was changed from Trinity University to Duke University. The total estate at Mr Duke’s death was valued at 101,000,000 dollars.