[3] She met Valentine Browne, known by his title of Viscount Castlerosse, when he was working in London as a celebrity gossip columnist for the Sunday Express.

[4][5] Her other lovers included society photographer Cecil Beaton, and possibly Winston Churchill according to a British Channel 4 programme.

[4] Churchill had met Doris on holidays in the South of France at the Château de l'Horizon, a villa owned by actress Maxine Elliott.

After naming her male friends and escorts as potential co-respondents, Viscount Castlerosse chose Robert Heber-Percy, a well-known homosexual whom she was allegedly trying to "cure".

[5] In debt, no longer socially in demand and under police investigation for illegally selling diamonds,[6] she died of an overdose of sleeping pills at the Dorchester Hotel on London's Park Lane.