Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 26, 1995 TAG: 9504260127
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
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NEW YORK - A former prosecutor assigned to investigate the death of billionaire Doris Duke charges that her estate is being mismanaged and confirms allegations that the terminally ill Duke was killed by massive doses of morphine from one of her doctors.
Surrogate Judge Eve Preminger asked Richard Kuh, a former Manhattan district attorney, to examine allegations of murder and fraud after Duke's former employees and a former physician sued last fall contesting her will. Kuh's report was unsealed Tuesday.
According to Dr. Nicholas Macris, whom Kuh hired to review Duke's treatment, Duke's doctor, Charles Kivowitz, ``end[ed] ... Ms. Duke's life by ... increasing the morphine to a dosage level that would stop Ms. Duke's breathing.''
Kivowitz, who was billing Duke $50,000 a month, admitted in a deposition that he administered the morphine but only "so that she would not linger, that she would not suffer.''
Longevity specialist Dr. Harry Demopoulos, who claims that Duke's will is a fraud, filed an affidavit from former Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner calling for a grand jury investigation. Reiner cited a report by Dr. Jonathan Arden, New York City's first deputy medical examiner. In court documents, Arden said that after studying Duke's medical records, ``I would classify the manner of death as a homicide.''
- Newsday
Study: Violence kills 2,000 children a year
The level of violence aimed at children in this country has reached public health crisis proportions, annually claiming the lives of at least 2,000 children and seriously injuring upward of 140,000 others, a federal advisory panel declared in a report scheduled to be released to Congress today.
The U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, concluding a 21/2-year nationwide study that included public hearings in 10 states, found a level of fatal abuse and neglect that is far greater than even experts in the field had previously realized.
- Los Angeles Times
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