'He took twisted pleasure in watching his pain': Teen Doris Duke heir worth $30million is sued for spiking bodyguard's meatloaf with ghost chilli that left him needing surgery 

• Patterson Inman, 17, is the joint heir along with his twin sister Georgia to the $60million Doris Duke fortune
• Personal security guard Steve Ketter is seeking damages for sadistic prank
• He claims the teenager, who is Duke's great-nephew, put ghost chilli oil - which is 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce - in his meatloaf glaze
• It caused a coughing fit leading to a bilateral hernia that needed surgery 
• He also alleges that Patterson's mom Daisha was in on the prank at their Utah home and is seeking damages from her too 

By James Dunn For Mailonline

Published: 06:21 EST, 4 August 2015 | Updated: 13:03 EST, 4 August 2015

A teen tobacco heir is being sued by a personal security guard after allegedly spiking his food with ghost chilli oil and taking 'twisted pleasure' in watching him writhe in agony.

Patterson Inman, 17, whose great-aunt is Doris Duke - the late tobacco heiress from the family behind Lucky Strike cigarettes - put the potent chilli oil in the guard's meatloaf glaze at the family's Utah home in 2013, Steve Ketter claims.

It left Mr Ketter writhing in agony and coughing as the teenager simply laughed, the lawsuit documentation said. The oil is 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.

Mr Ketter is now seeking unspecified damages from that the prankster, who is heir to the multi-million dollar Doris Duke fortune, and his mother Daisha, who he says was in on the prank, reports the New York Post.

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Prankster: Patterson Inman, 17, is accused of putting the potent chilli oil - 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce - in the guard's meatloaf 

Security guard Steve Ketter, pictured, is seeking damages from 17-year-old Patterson and his mom for the sadistic prank

He claims that Inman - who is set to split a $60million trust fund with his twin sister, Georgia, when they turn 21 - was aware of a pre-existing medical condition that would be aggravated by the prank.

But despite such knowledge, Patterson decided to 'entertain himself and get his kicks' by spiking the meatloaf glaze, it said.

He then went on to take 'twisted pleasure in watching the pain and suffering it would inflict on Mr Ketter', his claim states.  

Twins: Patterson Inman is pictured with his sibling Georgia. The 17 year olds are joint heirs to a $60million fortune

Lawsuit: Security guard Steve Ketter is also seeking damages from the twins' mom Daisha Inman, pictured above. The photo of her, right, is a mugshot in 2012 for an arrest for public drunkenness in South Carolina. Mr Ketter alleges Daisha, who is an ex-stripper, was in on the prank

In this 1977 photo Doris Duke and legendary artist Andy Warhol are pictured on a couch at Studio 54 in New York. Duke was once described as 'the richest girl in the world'. Patterson Inman, 17, and his twin sister Georgia are heirs to her $60million fortune but can not have access to it until they are 21

Mr Ketter drank water to ease the pain but had a severe coughing fit and suffered a bilateral hernia so was forced to go to hospital.

He needed surgery and the pepper oil 'tore apart' his stomach lining, the claim says. 

The suit alleges that Daisha Inman, the teen's mother, who is a former stripper, was also in on the prank.  

Mr Ketter says that Patterson Inman is 'a danger' to other employees after pulling a number of similar pranks on staff.

He claims that he has done the chilli prank before, put dish soap in the guard's water and hid razor blades in log piles during a trip to Oregon, according to Ketter and the suit.

Doris Duke is pictured in this July 1 1934 snap in Bailey's Beach, Rhode Island, enjoying what was then the most exclusive strip of beach in the U.S. where the bluest of society's blue bloods went 

Family tree: Walker and Georgia Inman are the great-niece and great-nephew of Doris Duke

Mr Ketter, pictured above, was a personal security guard to the family at their ranch in Oakley, Utah. He quit in 2013 - one month after the alleged prank

Mr Ketter provided round-the-clock security to the family at their ranch in Oakley, Utah, in 2013, but quit a month after the ghost-pepper incident.

Back in 2013, Daisha was accused of scheming to drain her children's $60million trust fund with her convicted child molester boyfriend.

JP Morgan, the administrator of the money, filed court documents on April 8, 2013, alleging that Daisha's boyfriend Randy Williams, 49, used the children's mother's email to ask for cash from the trust fund.  

Daisha says JP Morgan refused to pay basic expenses - including the teens' private schooling.

But in court filings, JP Morgan said Daisha had become 'erratic and hostile' and was making increasingly 'suspicious' requests to withdraw money from the fund. 

In 2013 Daisha Inman uprooted the twins from their home in South Carolina and relocated them to a $120,000-a-month suite in the St. Regis Hotel in Park City, Utah

Williams has been convicted of molesting his step-daughters from a previous marriage and was barred from seeing his son after a court in Washington state found that he had sexually abused and neglected the child, according to Manhattan court filings by the JPMorgan administrator.

'At the most basic level, (JP Morgan) is concerned about the potential risks to the children,' the trust administrator wrote at the time. 

Instead, the bank set up separate funds that the children could access. 

In 2013 Daisha also moved the twins from their home in South Carolina and relocated them to a $120,000-a-month suite in the St. Regis Hotel in Park City, Utah, as she tried to convince JP Morgan that it should release $29million from the twins' inheritance so she could buy a 214-acre ranch which boasted eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a tennis court, a movie theater and other luxury amenities. 

The twins are the great-niece and great-nephew of tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who was once described as 'the richest girl in the world'.

Billionaire heir teens tell Dr. Phil horrific tales of abuse

Siblings Patterson and Georgia Inman are pictured here on a Dr Phil show when they spoke about their troubled childhood

American Heiress Doris Duke is pictured right in the early 1930s in a portrait and, left arriving in New York in 1951

The twins spoke out in their first television interview last year on Dr Phil about how they allegedly endured years of abuse at the hands of caregivers hired by their meth-addicted father.

They lived with their father, Walker 'Skipper' Inman Jr - Duke's nephew - until he overdosed in 2010.

'People see this luxurious life but at the same time we were living in hell,' Patterson told Dr Phil during the exclusive interview.

The alleged abuse began after their parents divorced and their father - who received an estimated $90,000 monthly inheritance - won custody in 2000, when the twins were two. 

In the years to follow, they were burned with boiling water, forced to stay in a feces-filled basement, made to live for days without food and locked behind dead-bolted doors, they told Dr Phil.

Georgia recounted a putrid stink that permeated their Wyoming mansion and how they were fed stale food in a rat-infested home where babysitters would come and go. 

'They would play Russian roulette with us,' Georgia said of their caretakers. 

'They thought it was funny. They'd load the gun, spin it and shoot it at me and my brother.'

Walker Patterson Inman III, pictured left, is the late father of Patterson Inman, 17, and his twin sister Georgina Inman, pictured right. Walker died in 2010 of a methadone overdose 

She claimed that they also tied her feet and taped her mouth and would force her to eat her own sick from the carpet.

'She got mad because I couldn't eat it,' she said of one woman paid to look after them. 'It kept making me sick. It was really disgusting.'

Her brother recalled another time the nannies made him eat his own feces.

'They were feeding me my own [expletive],' he said. 'I just remember being in the basement and they were like pretending it was food. They were like, "Chew! Chew!"'

On other occasions, Georgia said they threw her down a flight of stairs and locked them alone in the basement. They were also dropped into a boiling bathtub, she said. 

'We got placed in hot water,' she said. 'It'd scold us really bad. I thought my skin was melting away. It feels like you're on fire.'

The twins spoke about their childhood in an exclusive interview with Dr Phil last year claiming they 'were burned with boiling water, forced to eat vomit and feces, starved for days and thrown down staircases by nannies'

But Georgia said the abuse didn't just come at the hands of their caretakers.

While Patterson has fond memories of his father - blowing up vehicles, collecting guns and speaking to hookers aboard boats in New Zealand - Georgia's thoughts are not so happy.

She told Dr Phil that her father also beat them, punching them in their faces and heads. Her brother refused to speak about the claims.

'He would pick me up by the ankle and just drop me on my head because he wanted to make me stupid,' Georgia claimed. 'He used to slice my feet up with knives.'

They both claimed they saw their father overdose regularly and that adults had told them to revive him by splashing cold water on his face. 

Rolling Stone magazine once called the twins 'the poorest rich kids in America'. 

Doris Duke moved bounced around several lavish homes, including this mansion in Honolulu, Hawaii. She also owned a 2,700-acre farm in New Jersey and a mansion on East 78th Street in Manhattan

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