Walker Patterson Inman
‘POOR’ KIDS: Doris Duke heirs Georgia Inman (top) and Walker Patterson Inman. (
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The mother of teenage twins who stand to inherit the bulk of philanthropist Doris Duke’s tobacco fortune wanted to raid her kids’ trust funds to buy a $29 million Utah ranch, court records revealed.
Daisha Inman’s extravagant plan — which was shot down by the children’s trustees — would have nearly cut in half the $60 million estate that 15-year-old twins Georgia and Walker Patterson Inman stand to inherit when they turn 21, sources told The Post.
The bulk of Duke’s estimated $1.3 billion fortune went to charity.
Daisha Inman, the fourth of five wives of Georgia and Walker Patterson’s late father, Walker Inman Jr., wanted to buy the sprawling eight-bedroom, nine-bath, RiverBend Ranch on 212 acres outside Park City.
She abruptly uprooted the twins from South Carolina and moved to Utah, holing up with them in the $120,000-a-month St. Regis hotel, a trustee said in court papers filed in Manhattan.
“Instead of locating a suitable rental property as she had represented she would do, Ms. Inman requested funding to buy a ranch in Utah with a listing price of $29 million,” JPMorgan executor Francis Simms noted in a Feb. 13 Surrogate Court filing.
Simms nixed Inman’s request to buy the ranch, even at a discounted price of $16 million, citing the price tag and the mom’s erratic behavior.
The children’s father, who was Duke’s nephew, died of a methadone overdose in 2010. He married Daisha, a former topless dancer, in 1996, and divorced her by 2000.
Daisha Inman couldn’t be reached yesterday and a JPMorgan spokesman declined comment.