Homicide at Rough Point ** SIGNED, 1ST EDITION **
Language: English
Published by Tenacity Media Books, 2021
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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SIGNED and inscribed, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING thus of this hardcover book. Boards are glossy, rigid and warp-free. Two thin, shallow indentations on front cover. Spine is flat and square. Corners are crisp. Front corners slightly pushed inward. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. DUST JACKET complete, NOT price-clipped. Two scrapes, 1 scratch on front of dust jacket, otherwise vivid, crisp and shiny. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover. Also includes an advertising book promo card. Photos coming! Contact us for immediate pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. investigative journalist Peter Lance argues that tobacco heiress Doris Duke committed murder in 1966 when she fatally crushed her art curator, Eduardo Tirella, under a two-ton station wagon outside her Newport, Rhode Island, estate. The book, an expansion of a Vanity Fair investigative piece, re-examines the events of October 7, 1966. According to the synopsis provided on Goodreads, Tirella had informed Duke that he was leaving her employment to pursue a career as a Hollywood set designer. Minutes later, while Tirella was outside the vehicle opening the estate gates, Duke accelerated the car, crushing and dragging him to his death.Local police quickly ruled the incident an "unfortunate accident". Lance argues that this ruling was part of a quid-pro-quo agreement to protect Duke, who subsequently donated millions to the city's historic preservation.Supported by 105 illustrations and previously missing forensic files, the book explores:The Official Narrative vs. Reality: Lance debunks Duke's claim that she accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake, utilizing forensic evidence to suggest the incident was an intentional act of vehicular homicide.The Newport Cover-Up: Details on how influential figures allegedly abetted Duke, leading to missing case files and favorable reports.Eduardo Tirella's Legacy: A restorative profile of Tirella—a gay WWII war hero and set designer—whose reputation Lance asserts Duke attempted to erase from history.…
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- Title
- Homicide at Rough Point ** SIGNED, 1ST EDITION **
- Author
- Lance, Peter
- Publisher
- Tenacity Media Books
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0996285598
- ISBN 13
- 9780996285599
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 812 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.24 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 2.87 centimeters depth
430 pages. In the fall of 1966 billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confident in an incident that the Newport, RI police hastily ruled "an accident." Half a century later, an investigative reporter returns to his hometown and proves that the vindictive heiress got away with murder.
Introduction: Cielo Drive cuts like a beautiful scar along the bottom of a V-shaped canyon in the hills of Bel Air. In February, 1969, as she looked out on it from the red farmhouse at No. 10050 that she and her husband Roman had rented, Sharon Tate had no way of knowing that she only had 6 months to live. On August 9, the hyper-violent "Manson Family" would invade that house, killing Sharon and 3 of her closest friends. But strangely, half a year earlier, she'd had a brush with a different killer. It happened after her sister Patti, then 11, looked across at the Spanish-Moorish estate Sharon called "The Haunted House." In Restless Souls, Alisa Statmen & Brie Tate write that Patti hiked down and crossed Cielo, walking up to 1436 Bella Drive. There, she encountered the open gate to Falcon Lair, Rudolf Valentino's former home, purchased in 1953 by Doris Duke.
The wrought iron gates were open when Patti wandered in. Suddenly, she heard, an angry caretaker yell, "This is private property!" Startled, she lost her balance, fell and skinned her knee. Just then, a black limo pulled in. A tinted window went down and a tall woman in back lowered her sunglasses to ask who she was. Once she ID'd herself as Patti, sister of Sharon who lived "in the red barn," Doris knew that this wasn't any child. She was the sibling of the hottest young star in town. So she snapped to the caretaker, "Stop being such an ogre and bring Patti in, so we can clean those scrapes and get me the Polanski's phone number."
Later Sharon arrived, "nervously chewing her lower lip" and apologizing to the blond billionaire who was the 3rd richest woman in the world behind Queen Elizabeth & Queen Juliana. But by then, Sharon Tate was Hollywood royalty herself; her husband Roman, coming off "Rosemary's Baby," a kind of cinematic prince. So why was she nervous? What would make her bite her lip in the face of a woman whose caretaker had caused her little sister to draw blood? Since Sharon was killed that summer, we'll never know. But one thing is clear: this wasn't the first time Sharon Tate had been pulled into Doris's orbit. 2 1/2 years earlier, one of Sharon's closest friends, Eduardo Tirella, was violently killed after Doris crushed him under a two-ton station wagon and, at that time, most of Eduardo's friends suspected he'd been murdered.
The brutal stabbing of Sharon Tate is the tragic tale of a woman of great promise cut down in the prime of life. But that was also true of Eduardo, whose own Hollywood career was catching fire when he told the possessive heiress he was leaving her, minutes before she ran him down outside the gates of her Newport estate. Because she had the money & the power, Doris Duke erased his death from the narrative of her troubled life. For more than 50 years, the real truth behind what happened at Rough Point on Oct. 7th, 1966 has been hidden. Until now...
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