Biography Charlene Gail Heffner: Doris Duke’s Adopted Daughter admin, May 5, 2026 Charlene Gail Heffner became public not through a film role, political office, or inherited title, but through one of the most unusual family decisions in American high society. In 1988, Doris Duke, the famously private tobacco heiress and philanthropist, legally adopted Heffner as an adult. Five years later, Duke was… Continue Reading