She gave almost all of her fortune to charity, leaving her disgruntled nephew only $7 million.īut Walker Jr.'s children also inherited money through their grandmother, who was Doris Duke's mother, and his father, Duke's half-brother. There were a lot of staff who were paid high salaries and could have felt threatened to lose their incomes.'īut Duke, known for her sexual escapades, was a half-hearted guardian and stripped Inman of executor powers, giving them to her butler. 'People don't realize you can make anonymous reports without fear of retribution. 'It's really disheartening that people didn't reach out to child protective services,' she said.

Howard, director of the stress and resilience program at the New York-based Child Mind Institute. 'Absolutely, money does not protect you from abuse - in fact, it seems like a lot of people were worried about reporting this potentially because of their money,' said Jamie M. What was most striking was that by and large, few people intervened to help the children. The twins were at one point sent to a mental hospital for three months. slapped his daughter 'so hard, diners feared for her life,' according to Rolling Stone. Once, police were called to a diner after Inman Jr. The family had a few brushes with authorities, and several calls to social services stopped dead in their tracks. emailed and called Inman, 53, at her Park City, Utah, home, but no one responded.

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