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Bernard Lafferty (14 April 1945 – 4 November 1996) was an Irish butler and heir to American tobacco heiress and philanthropist, Doris Duke. Duke hired Lafferty in 1987 and named him the executor of her $1.2 billion estate six months prior to her death in October 1993.
VIRTUALLY on the third anniversary of the death of the wealthy woman he had cared for, Bernard Lafferty, the Billionaire Butler, died suddenly on Monday morning.
Nov 5, 1996 · Bernard Lafferty, the butler who became a millionaire after the death of Doris Duke, the lonely tobacco heiress he had befriended, died in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 51.
Lafferty, an uneducated, alcoholic, gay Irishman who had worked for Peggy Lee and Elizabeth Taylor, was the person to whom she left control of her own fortune when she died at 80, a...
Nov 5, 1996 · Bernard Lafferty, the butler who inherited a fortune from tobacco heiress Doris Duke, then nearly lost it over allegations he murdered her, was discovered dead in his bed Monday.
Apr 11, 1996 · A tentative settlement was announced yesterday that would end the war over Doris Duke's $1.2 billion estate and pay Bernard Lafferty, her high-spending, ponytailed butler, millions of dollars to give up his role in overseeing her fortune.
May 18, 1997 · Bernard Lafferty earned four screaming tabloid headlines during his short time in our consciousness: “Did The Butler Do It?”; “Liz Has a New Man--He’s a Murder Suspect”; “Greedy Butler ...
