The warmth of her voice captivated Edward Laurence Doheny, whose offices were in the same building. His first marriage ended, and Edward and Estelle were married in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 22 August 1990 aboard the oilman's private railroad car, which was thereafter named "Estelle." The Dohenys and Edward's seven-year-old son, Ned, first lived in New York City. In 1901 they took up residence in the former Posey mansion at 8 Chester Place in Los Angeles, where Mrs. Doheny was to live for the next fifty-seven years.
Mrs. Doheny became a Catholic on 25 October 1918, when she and her husband were received into the church by Bishop Joseph S. Glass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. During her lifetime Mrs. Doheny was honored by two popes: in 1931 she and her husband were made members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre by Pius XI, and eight years later Estelle was given the rare title of papal countess by Pius XII.
The Doheny name became unalterably associated with the Teapot Dome scandal when Edward was accused of bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall. Mrs. Doheny testified at a series of trials beginning in 1923 and ending with her husband's acquittal in 1930.
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