Plan Ahead: Mansion tour tickets, such as those required for The Breakers and Marble House that are sold by The Preservation Society of Newport County, are not accepted at this estate. Originally ...

An alleged murder mystery in Newport. The author of a new book says it wasn't a terrible accident when a man at Doris Duke's mansion was killed in 1966. Peter Lance claims the heiress herself did it ...

The Newport Restoration Foundation recently made one of the city’s most prominent house museums, Rough Point, free for all Newport County residents, the most recent move in a yearlong effort by the ...

In his book "Homicide at Rough Point," Peter Lance lays out evidence he says proves heiress Doris Duke purposely struck and killed her art curator and friend Eduardo Tirella because he was about to ...

Who was Doris Duke? The tobacco heiress died at age 80 in 1993, and her Newport home Rough Point continues to attract tourists parading Bellevue Avenue. Since her death, her neighborhood has been ...

NEWPORT — Rough Point, the Newport estate of heiress Doris Duke, overflows with enough antiques and old master paintings to rival a world-class museum. Then there is the architectural pedigree of the ...

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Rough Point, one of Newport’s grand mansions and home of Doris Duke. This is an extensive look inside Rough Point, one of Newport’s grand mansions and home of heiress Doris Duke. From the finely ...