Done & Dunne

A deeply personal tragedy, and a horrific crime, accelerates Dominick’s transition into a warrior for justice. In a combination of previous episodes from our podcast investigation, we meet Dominique Dunne, the beloved California child of Nick and Lenny, whose murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend in 1982 was chronicled for Vanity Fair in her grieving father’s own words.

We have certain underlying assumptions about how the criminal justice works, and how the courtroom will treat the grieving family of a murder victim. Nick sure did, until it was his family gathered in a Los Angeles courthouse, watching a grave miscarriage of justice play out as the man who murdered his daughter Dominique stood trial.

It was a wrenching crime followed by an appalling miscarriage of justice, chronicled by none other than the grieving father of the victim. Alicia takes us through the trial of the man who strangled Dominique Dunne to death, presided over by a self-serving judge with a soft spot for the defense team, with a verdict rendered by a jury which was not allowed to hear key evidence as it debated lesser charges than the prosecution wanted.

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Dominick Dunne: After The Party (Documentary, Amazon link)

Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of His Daughter’s Killer, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com)

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This week, we jump tracks ever so slightly to focus on another infamous crime in Beverly Hills. The Menendez boys are learning by watching the early 1980’s poster boy of crime, Joe Hunt, and his BBC. The Billionaire Boys Club, a nickname that became its moniker, might have started out with all the best intentions, but soon turns into a crime spree that will set the tone for so much to come. 

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This week, we continue our investigation into Dominick Dunne’s real-time reporting from the summer of 1993 from the first murder trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez. Testimony is given by many characters at this time, including the friends and family of the accused, as well as Dr. Oziel and the fishing charter Captain too. Also included are some epic showdowns with the attorneys, and the surprising influence of another infamous crime in California from the 1980s, the Billionaire Boys Club.

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In this bonus episode this week, Dominick Dunne is coming in hot with all the other Hollywood news happening during the summer of 1993 throughout the first Menendez trial.

Players in this first half of this episode include the initial arrest of Heidi Fleiss, the death of Joyce Haber, and the resurgence of the Château Marmont.

In the second half, we turn our attention to L.A.’s hottest new restaurant Locanda Veneta, the bad manners of Michael Eisner, the French Rivera jewel heist of Marvin and Barbara Davis, the beginning of the criminal investigations of Michael Jackson, Tina Sinatra’s stalking trouble from her ex-boyfriend James Farentino, and a little Robert Evans too.

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This week, we continue Dominick Dunne’s reporting into the Menendez case, with his coverage from the first trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, from the summer of 1993. Dunne casts a dramatic lens on the players involved, and exactly how much the story has shifted from the August 1989 double murder of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.

In this episode, we catch up on the main characters in this courtroom drama, including the brothers, the judge, Leslie Abramson, and the cast of lawyers, both prosecuting and defending. Dunne does not miss a trick in this investigation and reveals so many of his own feelings as this case has progressed through the judicial system. 

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This week, we continue our investigation into the murders of Kitty and Jose Menendez, from “Nightmare on Elm Drive”, Dominick Dunne’s original coverage from October 1990, setting the baseline of the facts of the case, right from the early days.

The week, we learn how the shady therapist, his secret mistress and the best friend – not even working together - end up bringing Lyle and Erik Menendez to account for the murder of their parents. We also introduce Leslie Abramson and get some news from the California Court of Appeals.

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This week, we open a whole new investigation into the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, at the hands on their sons, Lyle and Erik. The grisly crime committed in Beverly Hills on August 20, 1989, was extensively covered by Dominick Dunne, over the course of a number of years. In this episode, we begin at the very start, by exploring Dunne’s initial coverage from October 1990. His “Nightmare on Elm Drive” is an excellent baseline for the case, still in early days, before the years make the details far murkier.

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We are still all aboard this journey with Dominick Dunne to the 60th birthday party of 3rd Lord Glenconner, Colin Tennant, with all the family. In this second part, we meet up with Princess Margaret, Raquel Welch, and a few other folks with some strong opinions when the American boat sallies up next to the Wind Star.

Once the journey is over, there are a few more threads to pull with the fates and legacies of Lord Colin and Princess Margaret. It really all does come back around.

Done and Dunne is taking next Monday off from the main feed, returning September 30. Patreon is the place to go to continue your investigation until then with ad-free and bonus episodes! 

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We are taking a voyage this week with Dominick Dunne, who is attending the 60th birthday party bash of Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner at the end of 1986. Colin had a great party the decade before and Princess Margaret is no stranger to the party time hedonistic time happening on the island. Dunne attends this celebration, but this is not Nick’s first introduction to Princess Margaret.

In the first part of this getaway episode, we explore Dunne’s previous relationship with Princess Margaret, fill in a bit of backstory on her land and home in Mustique, and get to the boat, right on time, for Colin’s party. It truly is a family affair.

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When Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926, there were years of her childhood that were, compared to other future monarchs, quite normal. After all, she was never supposed to be the Queen. Her father was a second son; her Uncle David would succeed her grandfather, and certainly other male children would come along.

And then, in 1930, Elizabeth's parents waited with anticipation to find out the gender of Elizabeth's impending sibling. A boy would be in the line of succession. But the child who arrived was Princess Margaret, who was never supposed to be the daughter and sister of Queens herself, but for the fateful choice her Uncle David would make when Margaret was just six, when everything changed.

This episode follows Margaret through a tumultuous childhood, an early doomed romance, and her long, if ill-fated marriage to Antony Armstrong-Jones, eventually the Earl of Snowden. We visit Mustique, the Caribbean island where Margaret's only personal land holdings resided, and meet some of the guests she entertained there. Plus, an assortment of stories about the social life of a notoriously difficult Princess - and why hanging with Margaret wasn't everything it was cracked up to be.

It is all going to come back around on your next Dunne Day with Nick's coverage of this Trashy Royal - this is the foundation!

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In this episode, we take Dominick Dunne through many decades of his turbulent career, and get our man Nick redeemed in the Hollywood scene in the mid-1990s. Dunne knew the Bloomingdales and the Reagans socially back in his Hollywood halcyon days in the 1960s, but was most certainly booted out of their circle by his 1970s downfall.

With the publication of his 1984 coverage on the murder of Vicki Morgan, and his subsequent roman a clef An Inconvenient Woman, many folks would not have anticipated that Dunne would get back into the good graces of the West Coast Queens, Betsy Bloomingdale and Nancy Reagan. Dunne does that, and so much more.

Included in this episode are so many familiar characters from our ongoing investigation, and a few new characters too, including Jerry Zipkin, Heidi Fleiss, Alfredo de la Vega, Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson and his chimpanzee too.

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In this week’s episode, we take a journey to the second criminal case Dominick Dunne covered in his reporting for Vanity Fair. When Vicki Morgan was murdered in July 1983, it sent shockwaves through the political upper crust, as Vicki was the mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale, connected into the Reagan administration through the decades. Dominick Dunne was there for the June 1984 trial of Vicki’s murderer, Marvin Pancoast, who was found guilty of murder in the first degree, but not everyone believed the story as it was presented on the surface.

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We are excited to share a show we're loving with you! American Prankster: Wavy Gravy's Life Story pairs the legendary entertainer and activist with our friend, podcaster Rainbow Valentine, following the incredible ride of a life that Wavy Gravy has been on through decades of American counterculture. Enjoy this sample, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

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August 26 marks the 15 years since our man Nick’s passing in 2009, and this week, we honor him, his life and legacy. Dominick Dunne was fondly recalled by many – these are a few of the best stories about his life and impact, by Sean Elder and Jason Chaffee.

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It's a double-up week here on Done and Dunne! In this first drop, we travel to the California home of Joanne Carson where Truman Capote spent his last days in August of 1984, forty years ago.

Truman, infamous writer and collector of Swans, has some pretty epic stories in his last months, as told by his friends before his passing on August 25. Then, we drop in on Truman’s first memorial service with mourners attached to Dominick Dunne in so any ways, including John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion, Carol Marcus Matthau, Robert Blake, Artie Shaw and Christopher Isherwood.

It's a whole hot mess, that leads into tomorrow's drop. There is always an investigation around this place. 

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It is off to Old Hollywood this week, with the life and death of Roddy McDowall. Dominick Dunne was involved in both, and does he give a wonderful profile of his friend at this time of his passing in 1998.

Roddy – legendary in Hollywood, not only for his prolific acting career, but also his photographs and very famous friendships. Roddy was the best friend you could ever want – just ask Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Jane Fonda, Tuesday Weld, or our man Nick. 

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This week, we are taking a little detour into the past in our investigation with a Not Dunne Yet bonus episode from many moons ago. Dominick Dunne really did interact with so many characters in his various acts, and this week we take our man Nick connecting a whole throughline of folks you might not know were connected. From Elaine Young to Gig Young to Eugene Landy, with Brian Wilson on the side, back to Elizabeth Montgomery – and an added Cliff Robertson mention too. So many spiderwebs in this one that pull so much together. 

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Dominick Dunne did write about the murders of his friends Jay Sebring and Sharon Tate on that terrible weekend in August 1969. This is a weekend that would change everything in Hollywood, and our man Nick was on the scene, and has the story from all his friends, so connected into our ongoing investigation.

Included: Robert Evans, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, Natalie Wood, Terry Melcher, Doris Day, Candace Bergen, among so many others.

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Alicia is back from NYC with the stars of Broadway in her eyes. It seemed the perfect week to investigate Dominick Dunne's squad of best friends that include Howard Erskine, Charles Hollerith Jr., and Stephen Sondheim! These chums go all the way back to the late 1940s in their Williams College days, and what a life well led for each individual. But together - their lifelong friendship was truly spectacular.

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In this episode of Done and Dunne, we take our man Nick to London in 2002 to report in

on the trial of Paul Burrell, the royal butler who knows all Diana’s secrets. The Diana in question is, of course, Princess of Wales. Dunne reports in on this trial of the most loyal servant ever, which is halted after 11 days, right before Paul’s appearance on the stand. Why the delay at The Old Bailey? Why, of course, Queen Elizabeth II steps in with late-breaking testimony about an important conversation from years before that will change the whole narrative in her Jubilee

year.

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Investigators, this week we continue our journey into dip into Dominick Dunne’s reporting in personal profiles as he begins his third act. In June 1989, Phyllis McGuire was the subject of Nick’s gaze, in a story that takes us from the famous trio of singing sisters to Sam Giancana to Dorothy Kilgallen to Frank Sinatra, with jewels, personal Eiffel towers, and oil money along the way.

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This week in a special crossover episode, Alicia remixes the life and loves of Frank Sinatra, Old Blue Eyes himself - into a mamma jamma supercut of Nancy, Sr., Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow, as well as a ton of trashy goodness and so many spiderwebs!

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Our man Dominick Dunne profiled Warren Beatty in 1994, after his marriage to Annette Bening. This episode brings that interview into our investigation, with so many attached spiderwebs including but not limited to Kate Capshaw, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Evans, OJ Simpson, Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, George Cukor, and Scotty Bowers too.

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In this connector of an episode, we bring Warren Beatty into our investigation, as it concerns his very active love life for many a decade before his marriage in 1992 to Annette Bening. Spiderwebs include Jane Fonda, Joan Collins, Natalie Wood, Cher, Vivien Leigh, Mamie van Doren, Brigette Bardot, Leslie Caron, Faye Dunaway, Julie Christie, Britt Eckland, Carly Simon, and a special Joni Mitchell bonus addendum to the story.

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In this week's first episode, we delve into Diane Keaton, and all the spiderwebs! 

Dunne interviewed Keaton in 1985, in both New York City and Los Angeles, and this piece provides so much sub-text to so much of Hollywood. Certainly, the story is about the reclusive Diane Keaton, but also leads into our investigation Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and many, many more! 

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We have a sizzling summertime ahead of us, dipping into Dominick Dunne’s juiciest profiles. Our man Nick wasn’t always scribbling furiously in a courtroom, and his Hollywood roots were never far from his mind.

To whit: In 1984, he sat to interview screen goddess Ava Gardner. Alicia weaves his words with Gardner’s own, from the book she published years after, filling in the portrait of this legendary star.

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In this episode, we round us out of the Dodge Family children, exploring the second set of John F. Dodge's children, including Frances, Daniel, and Anna Margaret.

These kids come along in John’s third marriage to Matilda Rausch, which happens only after the secret marriage to his housekeeper. Many spiderwebs in that, added to scandals, mysterious deaths, and perhaps an adopted child too.

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In this episode, we continue looking at the scandalous divorcing Dodge children, with so much tragedy between all the generations.

Here, our focus moves to John Francis Dodge and the first set of his children – specifically, John Duval Dodge and Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane. So many spiderwebs, scandals, and horses too!

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In this episode, Griffin Dunne joins his family’s writing legacy. Griffin Dunne, actor, producer, and director – and son of Dominick and Ellen Dunne, is releasing a memoir June 11, The Friday Afternoon Club, A Family Memoir, and this podcast is excited about it.

In this excerpt, Griffin reveals his own perspective of a story we have investigated through the lens of his father within our first few episodes.

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Move over, Gilmore girls! This week, we turn our investigation to Anna and Delphine Dodge, the mother/daughter pair that takes the 20th by storm! The wife and daughter of one of the founders of Dodge Motors live in extraordinary circles - SO many family connections, real estate, yachts, pearls and scandals too - the Dodge girls are coming in hot!

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This week, we explore Dominick Dunne’s writing on Marion Davies, their brief meeting in the 1950s, as well as reveal a few mysteries from Nick’s clues about a few scandals, secrets, and spiderwebs within the family.

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Media mogul William Randolph Hearst can be cast as a hero or a villain of the 20th century, and plenty of writers have taken a stab at pinning down his legacy definitively. But one of the lesser remembered aspects of Hearst's life was his abandonment, in 1917, of his wife, Millicent, and their five sons, to spend the rest of his life with actress Marion Davies. One quirk of this arrangement is that Millicent never consented to a divorce from her husband, and while this scandalous state of affairs might have sunk a less powerful person, Hearst's ability to manipulate the vast media empire he owned protected him, and allowed Marion's life and career to flourish on the West Coast.

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What happened at the White House in 1961? How does Lee become the real villain in this story, at least according to Truman? So much bad blood, and these problems can never be solved.

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It is time to bring all the spiderwebs together. This week, it is the first part of the actual feud happening – the one between Gore Vidal, Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill. In this episode we explore the origin story of Gore and Truman which begins in the mid-1940’s and runs through 1975 – up to and into the complicated love/hate triangle between these three.

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In this episode, Dominick Dunne’s writing comes into focus in our investigation. Nick writes about the life and the passing of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in 1994 for Vanity Fair. This episode was released on Patreon last year, and this week in between Lee Radziwill and the Gore Vidal Feud, was a perfect to share it on the main feed.

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In this episode, we explore the life, loves, and increasingly complicated relationships of Lee Bouvier Radziwill, which a lens to two in particular. The first with her sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The next, with her best friend, Truman Capote. Moving from the White House to Montauk to the Greek Isles, this one connects many people into on ongoing investigation, and sets the stage for the real feud coming next week - the feud of Truman Capote and Gore Vidal.

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We completely depart the Feud series this week, beginning the first of a three-episode arc to unpack the real feud, which is little featured in the series – the feud between Truman Capote and Gore Vidal.

This week, in a prologue of sorts, we connect Gore Vidal and Lee Radziwill, long associated before Truman, who are stepsiblings through marriage, thanks to Hugh D. Auchincloss. Hugh’s second and third wives, respectively, were Nina Gore Vidal and Janet Lee Bouvier, mothers of Gore and Lee. This one is multi-layered and involves so many spiderwebs.

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In this episode, Alicia continues to reveal the behind-the-scenes happenings in real life for Truman Capote and his Swans, against FX/Hulu’s Feud: Truman Capote vs. The Swans. It is to Episode 6 of the series this week where we dip into glove shopping, terrible talk show interviews, and Truman’s time in Palm Springs. 1968 is the year that the air conditioning man comes into his life, with an interesting and heartbreaking time for Capote.

The most significant portion of this episode is dedicated to Studio 54, the hotspot of the late 1970s. We explore its history and Truman’s time there, along with a whole cast of characters recollecting this infamous disco, reaching even into the Carter administration.

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In this week’s episode, we explore Episode Five of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Included are three segments: a critique of the episode, reaction from Babe Paley’s granddaughter, and a true-life literary connection about the origin story of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, which happened at the first party Truman Capote hosted, long before his 1966 Black and White Ball.

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In this week’s episode, we explore Episode Four of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Alicia takes you through a summary of what you saw on screen, and then a special bonus from Kate Harrington, telling her own story.

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In this episode, we explore Truman’s 1966 Black and White Ball from the people who were there – the build-up, the big event, and the aftermath.

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In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer Episode Three, Masquerade 1966.

In this first episode of a double-drop week, we focus on everything but The Black and White Ball. That is a whole episode on its own. Here, we explore In Cold Blood, Truman’s Sagaponack Home and 1966 documentary, and C.Z Guest’s husband’s problems with the IRS.

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In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer Episode Two, Ice in Their Veins.  

This week, we focus into the behind the scenes of four new players, including two more Swans, a lover and a mother: Lee Radziwill, Joanne Carson, John O’Shea and Lillie Mae Faulk.

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In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer the D Block of Episode One. 

This week, we make it into the publication of the piece that scorches all his Swans in Esquire in 1975. Alicia dips into all the bits around this last segment of the Pilot episode, exploring both before and after the publication of the pages that change everything.

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In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer the C Block of Episode One. 

This week, we look to a few more glorious sets – Truman’s apartment in UN Plaza and the famous gathering place La Cote Basque. Also, we meet a few more characters too – Jack Dunphy, John O’Shea, Slim Keith and C.Z. Guest, with a few more spiderwebs too.

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In this continuing Alicia's Version working through the FX/Hulu series from Ryan Murphy, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, it is time to conquer the B Block of Episode One. 

Included this week is that infamous Private Jet introduction, where Truman Capote upgrades his Swan Set, the coterie he has collected from early days - from Jennifer Jones and the Hollywood Swans through an introduction from David O. Selznick to his Park Avenue Upgrade, Babe Paley.  Also, connecting a new term into the mix - Black Swan Event. It happens at the introduction of Babe and Truman in 1955, and the dinner party, interwoven between fact and fiction, including bits about the origin of the real feud with Ann Woodward, and how it all connects to Claus von Bulow.

Feuds always start from somewhere. Is Truman really going back into 1955 writing in 1975? These mysteries and more, coming as Alicia works through unpacking this series.

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With everyone engrossed in FX/Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Alicia will be diving into each episode with a little extra razzle dazzle, explaining the spiderwebs and continuing mysteries. This episode covers the first 13 minutes of the series, from its opening scene to the first commercial break, with more to come through the week! 

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In this week’s episode, we are circling back to Babe Paley, from a Patron Bonus long ago. Babe, a woman of much style and influence – this one really goes places, from fragrance to birdcages, and her influence on Truman Capote in the early days.

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This week, we conclude our Robert Evans journey taking The Kid through his last years, with three additional wives and divorces, losing Woodland and getting it back and a few other connected spiderwebs. 

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This week in our continuing journey of the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, we take The Kid into the fabulous 1980s, which weren’t quite so fabulous at all for him. Busted for a cocaine possession, and his reputation ruined, Evans is then fueled with an obsession of bringing The Cotton Club to the screen. That is all before the murder of Roy Radin in 1983, which connects into it all, although it will take almost a decade to see justice for that crime, and Robert’s name to be cleared.

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Admit it: you’re obsessed with royal families – watching them, gossiping about them, wanting to be them. It’s the stuff of fantasy. But for real life royals, the crown jewels can be more like shiny handcuffs. There are expectations and rules – and if you break them, the consequences are big, and very public. And no, we’re not just talking about Harry and Meghan. There are royal families and wild royal tales from around the world and throughout history that you have never heard before. From Wondery comes a new podcast called Even the Royals that will take you inside the cloistered world of royal families, past and present, where wealth and status often come at the expense of your freedom – and maybe even your life. This is just a preview of Even the Royals. Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or at Wondery.fm/eventheroyals_doneanddunne.

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This week, we take The Kid through conquering the 1970s. From hit films like Love Story, The Godfather and The Great Gatsby to two marriages and divorces from Ali MacGraw and Phyllis George, this decade was filled for Robert Evans with all the ups and downs. Appearances in the episode include, but are in no way limited to, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Al Pacino and even Princess Margaret.

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In our continuing journey of the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, this week we explore his time in the 1960s in Hollywood, firmly ensconced at Paramount Studios.

Included in this episode, Evans marries and divorces his second wife, Camilla Sparv. He acquires his legendary Beverly Hills home, Woodland Estates, leading John Elgin Woolf’s Hollywood Regency style. Woodland’s guest list includes all the greats – whether they are coming to take a meeting, have dinner, play tennis on the famous courts or watch dailies in the screening room.

In this time, Evans will also have a little run in with the FBI, land his first studio success with The Odd Couple, give Cary Grant some advice on love, and cause the divorce of Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra with a little film called Rosemary’s Baby directed by Roman Polanski.

This episode takes Robert Evans through the mid-1960s to the terrible events of August 1969, with the murders on Cielo Drive.

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This week we continue our journey into the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, taking him through the early 1960s. Here, he leaves his actor days behind and with some real cash and bravado behind him, becomes the head of Production for Paramount Pictures.

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In our continuing investigation into the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, this episode focuses on his years from 1956 through 1961. Robert begins as an actor and will end this five year period with an ex-wife, a fortune, and a new production career in Hollywood.

Connected into this episode: Norma Shearer, Jimmy Cagney, David O. Selznick, Darryl Zanuck, Ernest Hemingway, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Lana Turner, and many others.

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For the next few weeks, we are leaving Newport to visit the West Coast, to investigate the incredible life, times, and connections of Robert Evans, a film legend, who was already getting around long before he made his entrance in Hollywood.

This first episode of this ‘Six Degrees’ series focuses on Evans’ early years, including appearances from Mike Todd, Dick van Patten, and John F. Kennedy, among other surprise guests.

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In this final episode of the Sunny and Claus von Bülow arc, we investigate the fallout from the verdict in the second trial, its aftermath, and provide Dunne the final words, on Sunny's behalf.

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In the four days of jury deliberations in the 1985 trial of Claus von Bulow, Dominick Dunne is very deep into his reporting on this piece, even landing an invite to Clarendon Court from Sunny’s children. There is also a very revealing dinner as well with the press pool. Our man Nick wastes no time as everyone is awaiting the final verdict for Claus, and what it will mean for so many.

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In this episode, we continue our investigation into Sunny and Claus von Bülow, dipping into all the information Dominick Dunne is gathering during the 1985 re-trial of Claus for twice attempting to murder Sunny. Our man Nick talks with everyone during the trial, and reports all the inside scoop from these summer weeks.

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In this episode, we continue our journey into Sunny and Claus von Bülow, and answer the question posed in the previous episode – who is the mysterious Mrs. Reynolds? It doesn’t take Claus von Bulow too long to move onto his appeal from his 1982 conviction and onto his next mistress, Andrea Reynolds as Dominick Dunne will reveal within Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bülow.

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In this episode, we continue our journey into Sunny and Claus von Bülow. This week, Sunny is placed into her final and irreversible coma in December 1980, and her husband Claus will stand trial for his crimes in the spring of 1982.

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This week we pull one from the Patreon Vault to explore Clarendon Court in Newport RI, the home and its colorful history with so many spiderwebs. From its construction to its century of legendary owners, there is much more to this home than the location of two attempted murders. Clarendon Court also served as the location for the last of Grace Kelly’s films. Grace was a friend of Dominick Dunne’s who took him to his very first movie premiere. So many spiderwebs in this bonus episode! 

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In this episode, we continue our journey into Sunny and Claus von Bülow, taking them from their June 1966 marriage to Christmas 1980, as the second attempted murder of Sunny by Claus at Clarendon Court, their Newport RI home. The fourteen years covered here takes our couple from happiness to adultery and then suspicious of even darker themes, before it all comes crashing down.

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We begin a deeper investigation into the scandal that rocked high society in the 1980s, the twice attempted murder of Sunny von Bulow and the subsequent trials of her second husband Claus von Bulow for those crimes.

In this first episode, we introduce and get to know the main characters in this story, Martha “Sunny” Sharp Crawford and Claus von Bulow. What happens in their lives before and up to their marriage in 1966?

There are so many sticky spiderwebs that might surprise you in this one, including Coco Chanel, Truman Capote, Ann Woodward, and the very first case of murder by insulin poisoning – it really does all come together.

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In this Done and Dunne episode, we are going to check in on Dominick Dunne, in the years between 1980 and 1985. Dunne is coming into his third act in these years, from recovery in an Oregon cabin to releasing The Two Mrs. Grenvilles to launching into his new career as an investigative journalist, beginning with the 1985 trial of Claus von Bulow.

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Some stories have so much trash it's hard to know where to begin, but for scion of the Standard Oil fortune Hugh D. Auchincloss, it's hard to know even where to stop. Auchincloss, about as blue blood as you can get, was married three times, and through that particular journey, ended up being step-father to the future Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwell, from his third marriage, as well as the writer Gore Vidal, via his second marriage. It's this second marriage, to the former Nina Gore, that opened him to the later ponderings of step-son Gore Vidal, and his particularly poisonous pen. Get ready for a bit of a Forrest Gump journey through mid-20th century America, but in this case, a rich Forrest Gump with serious erectile dysfunction.

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In this edition of Done and Dunne, we dig a little deeper into the Gilded Age heyday of Newport, in all of its summer season glory. It took a lot of money to play in the scene, but it goes set the stage for how out next two heiresses operate.

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In this week’s episode in our Heiress Tour, we explore the life and legend of James Gordon Bennett, Jr., known internationally for his sporting, sailing, and spending. His is a story you won’t soon forget – like the expletive that is named for him. Bennett is the man to blame for a great deal of the coming age in Newport R.I. when he establishes The Casino in 1880.

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We are dipping into a different avenue on our Heiress Tour in the next few episodes. Welcome to Newport! It’s been waiting for you.

I am thrilled to begin this next Heiress arc introducing the history of this Rhode Island playground of the Gilded Age, long before the Gilded Age begins. Newport begins as a 17th century colonial experiment embracing religious freedom, and by the middle of the 1800’s is a flourishing seaside vacation village for the wealthy, coming in droves to exclusive luxury hotels for a summer escape.

This is Newport from the 1500s to the 1870s – let’s set the scene for the most exclusive and expensive of Heiress playgrounds in the Gilded Age.

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This week in our Heiress Tour, we are taking one out of the Patreon Vault. In this NDY, we explore the important women in the life of William Vincent Astor. First up is the story of his mother, Lady Ava Ribbesdale, who gets the Lady title in her second marriage. Next up, is Madeline Talmadge Force, teenage bride and new step-mother to Vinnie. Last, we connect in Brooke Astor, Vinnie's third wife, helpfully arranged by Minnie Cushing, his second wife. This one is loaded with spiderwebs and some sleuthing from Dominick Dunne too!

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Welcome to The Heiress Tour! This season, we will be taking a high society and true crime journey through the notable heiresses Dominick Dunne covered within his investigative reporting and beyond.

We begin this season with the case of Margaret Hitchcock Benson, heiress to the Lancaster Leaf tobacco fortune, murdered by her son in July of 1985, in a crime of true greed and coldness.

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In this week's episode, we conclude the Justice for Lita McClinton Sullivan arc, investigating the almost twenty year path to holding Jim Sullivan accountable for Lita's 1987 murder.

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This week, we pick up with the second episode exploring the very long road it takes to get justice for Lita McClinton Sullivan. It is a very short time period we focus into within this middle section. We begin in 1983, when Lita and her husband, Jim Sullivan begin their life in Palm Beach, planning a new, bright future. By August 1985, Lita is headed back to Atlanta, and by January 1987, everyone is eyeing Jim as the most likely suspect in her slaying.

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In this arc of our Done and Dunne investigation, we are returning to a few threads we have pulled in previous episodes, picking up a little bit of Palm Beach attached to an Atlanta true crime. These next episodes will investigate the 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan, and the long quest for justice her case takes. Included in this introduction, our main players - James Sullivan and his second wife Lita, her parents and friends too. This slice will take us to the couple moving to Palm Beach in 1983, acquiring the home that Jim Sullivan thinks will take him to the top of high society.

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In today's crossover episode with Alicia's other podcast, Trashy Divorces, she takes us through the surprising life and lucrative marriages of mid-century socialite and fashion icon, Mona von Bismarck. From humble origins on a Kentucky horse farm, Mona found marriage to be a feasible path to the good life. She was the wife of the then-richest man in America for nearly three decades - but that's far from the end, or the best, of her story.

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In this episode connecting Dominick Dunne into this Third Act, it is the story of Katharine Graham, the Publishing Swan of Truman Capote and America’s first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, to David Begelman, the movie studio head and Hollywood hotshot, whose criminal embezzlement provide Dominick Dunne a BIG clue on the way to his third act.

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In this episode, our journey takes us into the Hollywood Hills in April of 1964, attending the original Black and White Ball, given by the Dunnes, in honor of their 10th wedding anniversary – long before the far-more-remembered November 1966 affair presented by Truman Capote, who was a guest at the first one.

This celebrated party provides Dominick Dunne with a few clues along the way in anticipation of his coming third act, connected through a sandwich of Frank Sinatra layers.

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We begin our summer season by taking a peek into a very special letter Dominick Dunne receives from Truman Capote in 1978. At this time, Dunne is trying to figure out what his next steps are after hitting his Hollywood rock bottom, and this surprise missive from Capote becomes a guidepost along the way to Dominick's Third Act.

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This week, we wind down our Capote's Coterie series by investigating the third act of Truman Capote, including those scandalous chapters of Answered Prayers which targeted and alienated his Swans. In 1966, Truman claimed double success with the publication of In Cold Blood. Ultimately though, these achievements combined with his own hubris do not lead Capote to happiness, as his last decade reveals.

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Investigators, it a Not Dunne Yet reprise this week from Patreon, with Truman's recall of one particular day - April 28, 1955 from Music for Chameleons.

This spring day finds Truman with Marilyn Monroe, at and after the funeral services of Constance Collier, stage and film actress and drama coach.

Many sticky spiderwebs are included in this bonus for you, but please note: Take caution around young listeners. In this one, we are eavesdropping into an adult conversion and it is a bit saucier than your typical Done and Dunne episode.

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In this episode, we investigate the life and times of Pamela Churchill Hayward Harriman, courtesan of the 20th century, and so much more.

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In this episode, we investigate the life and times of Doris Lilly, columnist, writer, legendary society girl, and self-proclaimed inspiration for Holly Golightly in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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In this episode, we pull one last episode out of the Not Dunne Yet Patreon vault to investigate Truman Capote and Dominick Dunne’s relationship a little further in our timeline, taking us to 1975 and their Hollywood interaction after the release of Answered Prayers. Also included, a side quest into Truman’s time in Key West, Florida, intersecting with Dodson Rader, connecting to David Wolkowsky and Jimmy Buffett too.

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In this Not Dunne Yet bonus episode, we explore a moment in time for Dominick Dunne, and a trip he makes in 1947, connecting him with Anaïs Nin through Gore Vidal. In 1977, Anaïs Nin comes back into the story to complete a full circle moment with Dominick's son, Griffin Dunne.

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In this episode, we take one out of the Patreon Vault from May 2022 to visit "New York's New Yorkiest" Joint, The Stork Club. The Stork Club operates off 5th Avenue for over three decades and it is the scene for ALL of it.

This episode includes all the dish - the founding, the owner, the spiderwebs too!

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In this episode, we investigate a true-blue childhood friend of Truman Capote’s, Phoebe Pierce Vreeland, and her legendary fashion editor grandmother, Diana Vreeland, too. Phoebe and Truman were the best of friends in his adolescent and teenage years, and she weaves quite a story about Capote’s early years before his success as a writer.

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In this episode, we are going to turn our investigation back in time to 1948 when Truman Capote meets, and is profoundly influenced by, Colette, the grandest dame of French literature. 

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In this week’s episode, we continue our investigation into Truman Capote’s High Society Six with Marella Agnelli. One of the least covered of the Swans, Marella’s life was filled with glamour and adventure, with some heartaches along the way, too.

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In this episode, we continue our exploration of Truman Capote’s High Society Six. C.Z. Guest is our Swan today – the only one of this pack that did not abandon Truman. C.Z. had a legendary life including accomplishments like wife and mother, but also such as actress, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and ultimately fashion icon.

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As we continue our investigation into Truman Capote's High Society Six, we turn to the other Swan that means the most to Truman - Slim Keith. With a few high profile marriages, and even more high profile friendships, Slim's golden life was extraordinary.

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In this episode, we continue our exploration of Truman Capote’s High Society Six, dipping into the life of Gloria Guinness, the Swan with the mysterious background and many lucrative marriages.

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In this episode, we delve into the life of Babe Paley, the first of Truman Capote’s High Society Six – his infamous Six Swans. Babe’s life, marriages, and style are legendary, as well is her friendship – and subsequent falling out – with Truman Capote.

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Sources

Capote: A Biography, by Gerald Clarke (Amazon link)

Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball, by Deborah Davis (Amazon link)

The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh – The Lives and Times of the Fabulous Cushing Sisters, by David Grafton (Amazon link)

It Was a Wonderful Life (The Rake via scribd.com)

American Beauty | Beyond (magazine.stregis.com)

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In this episode, we explore the life, loves and friendships of Truman Capote's Original Swan, Carol Marcus. Her name might not be familiar to you now, but hers is a story that is unforgettable. Including a rags to riches story, two husbands and three marriages, and two very best friends - Gloria Vanderbilt and Oona O'Neil Chaplin, Carol is also one of the main real-life inspirations for the character of Holly Golighty in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

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In this first episode of Capote’s Coterie, we explore Truman Capote’s early years – from his tiny hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, and the cast of characters there – including the very first members of his coterie: Lillie Mae Faulk, and her family – Aunts Jenny, Sook, and Callie. Add into all of this an uncle, a cousin, and a neighborhood kid with just as much imagination and curiosity, Harper Lee.

Truman Capote makes his way in the world from birth to second grade aided by the help and grace of his mother’s relatives and neighbors – truly, Truman’s first coterie.

Further reading

Truman Capote’s Southern Years: Stories from a Monroeville Cousin, by Marianne M. Moates (Amazon link)

Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball, by Deborah Davis (Amazon link)

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Investigators, included is a quick message from your fearless hostess. Spring has spring, and recording with the voice I have this week would be unfair to you and the upcoming story. Stay tuned for the Capote's Coterie beginning next Saturday, March 25.

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Welcome to a whole new season of Done and Dunne, where we take a journey into the life, writings, and connections of Truman Capote, and the circle he collected. In this introduction to this coming season, we set the stage for our journey.

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We conclude our investigative journey through Palm Beach with dip into Dorothy Spreckels Munn and her home, Amado, both two true grand dames of Palm Beach.

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We continue our investigation this week in Palm Beach with a little dip into the two homes known as Winter White Houses – La Querida and Mar-a-Lago, each with its own storied history. La Querida was the Kennedys’ winter place for over 60 years with many architectural spiderwebs, including Addison Mizner and Maurice Fatio. Mar-a-Lago was built by Marjorie Merriweather Post as one of her PB homes, where she lived for almost 50 years. Donald Trump will acquire this property in 1985, right as Dominick Dunne is coming to investigate.

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Holy cats, y'all! This week we are doing a little run down of the Grand Dames of Palm Beach, according to The Shiny Sheet, originally aired as a Not Dunne Yet on Patreon. This one was just too good not to share! So many names, so much real estate!

We visit with some names we know, like Sue Whitmore and Mary Sanford. We spend a little time with a few new grand dames into our investigation, Like Jessie Donahue, Mona Williams and Eva Stotesbury.

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In our continuing quest to find the real Palm Beach, this episodes explores the stories of two of the most infamous women in the scene. First up, Gregg Sherwood Dodge, widowed before her dirty divorce was final from Horace E. Dodge. Next up, Roxanne Pulitzer - one-half of the most famous of all Palm Beach divorces. Her divorce from Peter Pulitzer was all shady business - Roxanne never stood a chance at a fair shake.

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Continuing in our Palm Beach Chronicles, this week we pick up the thread of Henry M. Flagler, big time deal in the town, and the tragic history of his three wives: Mary Harkness, Ida Alice Shourds, and Mary Lily Kenan.

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We continue our investigation into Palm Beach this week with a journey into Henry M. Flagler and his hotels, The Royal Poinciana and The Breakers, that put this exclusive Florida community on the map, and investigate the urban legend of Palm Beach removing the laborers who built these magnificent buildings.

Last, we take a peek into the exclusive club scene with the details on The Everglades, The Bath and Tennis, and The Palm Beach Country Club. 

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In our continuing investigation into Dominick Dunne's coverage of the real Palm Beach, we journey into the life and love of Celia Lipton Farris. Famous at 15, married to the man who invents milk cartons, and a legendary society hostess, Celia's life and spiderwebs might surprise you!

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Oh my – we are working our way through some of the stories Dominick Dunne got a piece of in his investigations into this sunny fantasy land for the very wealthy.

In this episode, we sleuth around the stories of Susan H. Whitmore, the Listerine heiress, and Mollie Wilmot, who became famous in 1984 when a 200-foot-long tanker ran into her Palm Beach seawall.

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Continuing our investigation today, we move along to the gentlemen that Dominick Dunne touches upon in his April 1986 Vanity Fair 1986 investigation. There is a lot of unpack in this one! Douglas Fairbanks Jr. becomes a real celebrity around the island in his home, The Vicarage - not to be outdone by Paul Ilyensky, with his many connections into the high society scene. We conclude with a dive into Arndt Krupp sailing us through this leg of our journey with our man Nick, attempting to discover the real Palm Beach. 

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In our continuing discovery of Dominick Dunne's 1986 quest for the Real Palm Beach, we take a journey back into 1985, when Armand Hammer hosts The Prince and Princess of Wales, Charles and Diana, for a charity ball at The Breakers on their way home from a very successful visit at the Reagan White House. You know it - it was the one that Princess Diana danced with John Travolta - but there is so much more to the story when the royal couple arrives in Palm Beach. Scandal ensues.

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In this episode, we investigate the most exclusive party in Palm Beach, The Coconuts. It is a New Years Eve ritual, enjoyed by a very privileged few. For a town mostly run by the ladies, this is the one night the men take over the gala in thanks to the Grand Dames. Something must be amazing out the event – it celebrated its 100th anniversary December 31, 2022. 

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It is a whole new season, investigators! This month we travel to one of the most exclusive, and wealthy, communities in the high society scene - Palm Beach, Florida. Dominick Dunne goes on a quest early in his Vanity Fair career that will continue through the years. This season posits the question: What is the Real Palm Beach?

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Further Reading

Fatal Charms: And Other Tales of Today, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon link)

The Women of Palm Beach, by Dominick Dunne, April 1986, Vanity Fair

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We conclude January with the conclusion of Kick Kennedy's story and her Kennedy family too, from 1940 onward. World War II is only one of the catastrophes playing out within this decade for the family. 

Included is all of Kick's arc, and well as her siblings, Joe Jr. and Rosemary too. What a legacy these three souls have - then and now. 

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Further Reading

Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter, by Barbara Leaming (Amazon link)

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Oh my, darlings - this week, we investigate the first part of Kick Kennedy's life, all very much attached to her parents and siblings. Kick is a joy, and so much connected throughout all the things we have covered in the months of our investigation. This episode includes Kick and the Kennedy family through 1940, right up to World War II, where so much will change for this American dynasty. 

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Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter, by Barbara Leaming (Amazon)

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In this episode, we explore the life and legend of Maxine Elliott, builder and operator of the most hopping spot on the French Riviera for decades, the Chateau de l ’Horizon.

A gathering spot for the famous and infamous, this home played host to many in its time – from political leaders to Hollywood stars to royalty. A few folks included in our cast this week: Lady Doris Castlerosse, Winston Churchill, Lady Diana Cooper, Daisy Fellowes, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marlene Dietrich, Prince Aly Khan, the Kennedy family, and Elizabeth Taylor too!

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This week, we explore the life and legacy of Frances Ellen Work, another American Girl to make an incredible impact overseas. Frances has a pretty famous great-granddaughter, Diana, Princess of Wales. We explore the story of another Frances too - Diana's mother, Frances Shand Kydd. Lots of connections in this one, throughout the generations!

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In this last of our current trio of American Girls, we explore the life of Consuelo Vanderbilt - who has no choice but to marry into titled folks.

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Further Reading:

The Glitter and the Gold, by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (Amazon.com)

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York, by Anne de Courcy (Amazon.com)

To Marry an English Lord: Victorian and Edwardian Experience, by Gail MacColl and Carol Wallace (Amazon.com)

The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age, by Julie Ferry (Amazon.com)

‘Consuelo and Alva’: An Early Story of Celebrity (npr.org)

The Bed Hopping Bride of Blenheim (dailymail.co.uk)

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Our story continues with the second of our three American Girls this week with the legendary Jennie Jerome, the very first one to marry into the British peerage.

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Further Reading:

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York, by Anne de Courcy (Amazon.com)

Million Dollar American Princesses, a Smithsonian Channel documentary series (Amazon.com)

The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World into Which They Married, by Elisabeth Kehoe (Amazon.com)

Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother, by Anne Sebba (Amazon.com)

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In this first episode of this American Girls trio of episodes, we celebrate the life of Consuelo Yznaga, the first American Girl to marry a Duke, the highest rank in the British peerage. Consuelo makes her match to the Duke of Manchester, but it is for her transatlantic marriage brokerage talents that this duchess is far more remembered.

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Further Reading:

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York, by Anne de Courcy (Amazon.com)

The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age, by Julie Ferry (Amazon.com)

To Marry an English Lord: Victorian and Edwardian Experience, by Gail MacColl and Carol Wallace (Amazon.com)

Million Dollar American Princesses, a Smithsonian Channel documentary series (Amazon.com)

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This week, it’s a journey 500 years in the making! Off to Derbyshire we go to spend some time at Chatsworth, the ancestral home of the Cavendish family and the Dukes and Duchesses of Devonshire.

There were many women who claimed the Duchess title, and a few who did not. We explore them all – from Bess of Hardwick to Georgiana Spencer and Deborah Mitford, the ones who did attain the title, as well as the ones who did not – Lady Caroline Lamb, Adele Astaire, and Kick Kennedy among them.

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In this episode, we introduce the unforgettable Mitford Sisters – six women who changed the 20th century, and play in it too. Welcome to the lives of Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah - and all their loves, scandals and legacies too.

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In this episode, we investigate the world of Debutantes, in all of their gloved glory through time.

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In this final episode of our series, we investigate what might have happened to Lord Lucan and the fates of our associated cast of characters in this season. 

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Not only has Lord Lucan disappeared, causing an international manhunt, but Lucan’s friends are closing ranks. In this episode, we investigate the immediate aftermath of Lucan’s deeds and how one of the set, Dominick Elwes, is destroyed by the Clermont set.

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In this episode, we investigate the events of that terrible night, November 7, 1974, where Lucky’s fate is sealed by miscalculating his hand, with the terrible cost of the life of the Lucan’s nanny, Sandra Rivett. Lord Lucan is now a murderer on the run.

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In this second episode, we investigate the marriage, separation and downright ugly court battle of Lord and Lady Lucan. Lord Lucan is very much down on his luck and makes some decisions about how to change his fate.

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Welcome to Season 5 of Done and Dunne and our investigation into the mysterious vanishing of Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, also known as Lucky.

John Bingham certainly started life on a lucky streak. This episode delves into Lord Lucan’s background, including his family, early childhood, and the meeting his future wife Veronica Duncan. We also introduce our wide cast of characters all playing in the hot spot of 1960s swinging London, John Aspinall’s Clermont Club and Mark Birley’s Annabel’s.

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In this special episode of Done and Dunne, we celebrate our man Nick's birthday (October 29th) with a very special guest! This week we are joined by Andy Bellatti from Astrology with Andy to explore Dunne's natal chart, providing a bit of insight into Dunne, even if astrology is not quite your thing.

Also included is exciting information about next season - coming for you Saturday, November 5.

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This week, our investigation brings us to the final days of Marilyn Monroe's life, and to her legacy. 

Recommended Sources:

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, by Anthony Summers (Amazon)

Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept Secrets, by James Spada (Amazon)

The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, by Sarah Churchwell (Amazon)

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We are exploring the summer of 1962 for Marilyn Monroe - with multiple plotlines developing. A studio looking to smear her, a doctor and housekeeper with questionable practices, and a few high-level summer romances bring a very complicated summer for Marilyn, whichever biographer you follow.

Recommended Sources:

Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, by Anthony Summers (Amazon)

Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, by Donald Spoto (Amazon)

Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept Secrets, by James Spada (Amazon)

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In this episode, our investigation brings Marilyn Monroe into 1962, a year much more public than her last. From buying a home to keeping company with John F. Kennedy, Marilyn's January to May are filled with future planning, a return to work, and a few legendary parties too - one of which causes the final fallout between Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra.

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We return this week to Marilyn Monroe, looking specifically in her years of 1960 and 1961. We intersect all of our familiar players, like Sam Giancana, John F. Kennedy, and Frank Sinatra, as well as introduce a few new ones, such as Clark Gable and Yves Montand.

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In this week's Double-Dunne episode, we explore the life and times of Judith Campbell Exner. Associated in more than you may expect - not just the girlfriend of Frank Sinatra, John F. Kennedy, and Sami Giancana, Judith stands alongside Marilyn Monroe - both women were used by powerful men of the generation for their own aims and motivations.

Song: The Lucky One, Taylor Swift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YorGiUHz4sY

Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn_Ndtw7qkY

https://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-dark-side-of-camelot-vol-29-no-8/

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1990-03-21-9001300892-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-nov-21-la-ol-jfks-lover-50-years-on-20131121-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/27/us/judith-exner-is-dead-at-65-claimed-affair-with-kennedy.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/06/24/judith-campbell-exner/939961b3-b7e0-4709-abab-a6cf90d010af/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e959c28b1626

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191312128/frederick-w_-immoor

https://archive.org/stream/nsia-CampbellJudithExner/nsia-CampbellJudithExner/Campbell%20Exner%20J%2018_djvu.txt

http://allenarchive-dev.iac.gatech.edu/items/show/4370

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/docid-32289524.pdf

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32288036.pdf

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32331173.pdf

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In this episode, we gather the cast of our existing players including Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Peter Lawford into the years of 1959 and 1960, as well as introduce a few new players too. Jeanne Carmen, Judith Campbell, Sam Giancana, and Johnny Roselli enter our story here for the first of a double-dip this week on Done and Dunne.

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In this episode, we explore the long and complicated relationship between Peter Lawford and Frank Sinatra through 1960, and reveal the hidden origins of the 1960 Rat Pack.

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In this week's episode, we drop into the year 1958 to catch up with Dominick and his family moving into their new Beverly Hills home.

1958 is a big year all around, as we connect a few through lines with Truman Capote and his 1958 novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's into our Dunne and Marilyn Monroe arcs.

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In this episode, we travel back to the life and times of Harold Lloyd, famous silent film star with decades of Hollywood history, in addition to being the Dunne's first landlord when they arrived in California in 1957. 

Also included: a dip into Benedict Canyon and a few of its famous players. Harold had some very swell neighbors like Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and David O. Selznick. 

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In this week's episode, we continue through our arc of 'A Nick In Time,' advancing Dominick Dunne into his first act in Hollywood in 1957. Dunne's entry into the scene is provided by Frank Sinatra and Humphrey Bogart, who were connected initially by the legendary literary agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar. 

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In this week's episode, we center Dominick Dunne back into the picture - from a fortune given to him in the 1940s to the very precipice of his 1957 entry into Hollywood. 

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In this episode, we continue our investigation into the life and death of Marilyn Monroe, specifically covering the years from 1955 to 1959.

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Investigators, in our episode this week, we finally get our couple down the aisle! Today's tale includes all the happenings surrounding the September 1953 affair. 

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In this episode, we are going to travel from 1950 - from where we left Jack calling Jackie, nine months too late, to 1953 - when Jackie will get that marriage proposal from Jack. 

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It's a little bit of a linear leap, but it's all connected! For this week's episode, we stay in the early 1950's to align Jacqueline Bouvier with John F. Kennedy, at least in the background and courtship phases of their relationship, along with the new characters it brings into our universe. This cornerstone will lead us to the engagement and marriage within the next two years between Jack and Jackie, leading us back into the conclusion of our Marilyn Monroe episodes.  

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In this episode, we pause briefly within our Marilyn Monroe episodes to investigate the affair of Gloria Swanson and Joseph P. Kennedy. This liaison creates an example for the Kennedy boys that will factor into their treatment of their wives and mistresses in the coming years. 

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In this episode, we investigate the year of three weddings, and one split - 1954. It is not only Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio that will wed this year, but also Dominick Dunne and Peter Lawford. By the end of 1954, Marilyn is single again, and close to living her best life. 

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As we continue our investigation into Marilyn Monroe, we focus on the years 1951 to 1953. Marilyn connects with two important men in her life in this time period – the first being her future husband, Joe DiMaggio. The second man is Peter Lawford, who will intersect with her life, and Dominick’s too, in a variety of ways in the years that follow.

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Dominick Dunne, by his own admission, worshipped Marilyn Monroe, and was lucky enough to get to know her a bit during their overlapping years in Hollywood. In this episode, we’ll meet Marilyn at the beginning of her journey, including her childhood, first marriage, and the origins of her stardom.

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Done & Dunne has spent some time at Beverly Hills mainstay The Daisy, the exclusive club that Nick and Lenny were members of, and where Frank Sinatra once paid the maitre d’ to punch Dominick in the face. Years later, Nicole Brown Simpson was a hostess at The Daisy when she, very consequentially, met OJ Simpson.

But before The Daisy, another legendary establishment occupied the same address. Romanoff’s, a restaurant that served as the hangout for the stars who built Old Hollywood, was the contribution of flamboyant owner Michael Romanoff, a man who spun a tale about his own origin story and in the process, made himself a figure in the glitz and glamour of the place and the era.

Sources:

Spotlight on… Romanoff’s (martinturnbull.com) Longtime FVS Supporter and Former Board President Sam Goldwyn Jr. ’43 Passes Away (fvs.edu) Crashing the Party, with Mike Romanoff and Gloria Vanderbilt – Nick Harvill Libraries (nickharvilllibraries.com)

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Author Martin Turnbull has made Hollywood's Golden Age the focus of his career. His Garden of Allah novels transport readers to a time when the glitz and glamour of Hollywood was new, and would become the stuff of legend. In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about The Garden of Allah, its famous players, The Hollywood Canteen, and so much more! 

Enormous thanks to Martin for being so generous with his time. Find him online at his website, his photo blog, at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or at his blog. You can also check out his Amazon author page, and of course, explore Hollywood's Golden Age through his eyes in his Garden of Allah novels. You can get the first two in ebook form by signing up to his mailing list!

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Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help her do it. But old habits die hard. In the shocking new third season, Eleonore reckons with what her father always taught her growing up: medicine is a bloody business. From Wondery, the makers of “The Shrink Next Door” and “Dr. Death,” Blood Ties stars Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Christian Navarro (13 Reasons Why), and Peter Stormare. Listen to all six episodes ad free on Wondery+ on May 9.

Listen to Blood Ties - Strange Days: https://wondery.app.link/wplus/dand_bts3

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Darlings, in this episode, we pull the thread of Natalie Wood and connect her back into Laurel Canyon. Her parents built a home on Lookout Mountain on Woodrow Wilson Drive, that will have quite a storied history beyond Natalie, and into the spiderwebs that are Dominick Dunne. 

Get ready to meet Mart Crowley, ponder the Boys in the Band, and recall Romanoff's (not those ones).

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In this episode, we move ahead in our Old Hollywood investigation to explore Dominick Dunne's universe in the 1950s and 1960s. In particular, Alicia focuses on Dominick's recollections in The Way We Lived Then, his photographic memoir released in 1999. 

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In today's episode, we take an tour of Laurel Canyon, from the 16th Century to the Present Day. Laurel Canyon's storied history is fascinating and complex and all the players connect in one timeframe or another. This episode is your foundation and introduction for many of the stories to come in the next few weeks. 

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In this Bonus Dunne Day Episode, Alicia takes you first to the West Coast to explore San Francisco's New Amsterdam, forever preserved in the song Mr. Jones by the Counting Crows. Then, we head to the East Coast - New York City - where we talk about the building, history, and the ghosts, too, of the other New Amsterdam. 

Get ready for a cross-continent journey spanning more than a century. Highlights include the Ziegfeld Follies, The Merry Widow Hat Skirmish, Kung Fu Movies, a Times Square renovation, and some of the biggest Disney musicals of recent decades.

It is a whole spiderweb today that takes us from 1903 to the present day. 

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Continuing our journey into Old Hollywood, Alicia unpacks the wild romance of the "It Couple" of Hollywood in the late 1910s, Olive Thomas and Jack Pickford. Both certainly have their archetypes, and lived them well.

We follow Olive from her humble beginnings into her trajectory to fame, and Jack's esteemed pedigree as the brother of America's Sweetheart. Finally, we explore their marriage and, of course, the mysterious death of our fair heroine.

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You never really know someone…especially online. In today’s world, the power of influence can be the

quickest path to money and fame, and it often ends in ruin. These are the stories of the world’s most

insidious Scamfluencers. And we are their prey. On Wondery’s new weekly series, join co-hosts Scaachi

Koul and Sarah Hagi as they unpack epic stories of deception from the worlds of social media, fashion,

finance, health, and wellness. These influencers claim to be everything from charismatic healers to

trusted financial insiders to experts in dating. They cast spells over millions. Why do we believe them,

and how does our culture allow them to thrive? From Black Swan Murder to a fake social media

influencer to an audacious Hollywood Ponzi schemer, each season will take the listener along the twists

and turns, the impact on victims, and what’s left when the facade falls away.

Listen to Scamfluencers: wondery.fm/DandD_Scamfluencers

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It's the beginning of a new season, and we are shifting our focus back to the West Coast!

Long before The Beverly Hills Hotel or the Chateau Marmont, there was The Garden of Allah... home to a whole artist community - of all types - from the 1920s to the end of 1950s. What started as the private residence of the famous silent screen star Alla Nazimova became a 30-year-long party on the Sunset Strip that created a culture, a colony, and a legend in the Hollywood scene.

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Investigators, we have made it to the end of this first Vanderbilt Family Values arc. 

In this series finale, we cover a few loose threads from the previous episodes, as well as explore the hidden novelist inside of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, writing two novels with so much implied between the covers. 

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In this episode, we pick up our investigation continuing the story of Gloria Vanderbilt, from her teenage years to her death in 2019 at the age of 95. 

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Done and Dunne 39. Vanderbilt Family Values | International Incidents 1926-1934

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In the first of a week of daily episodes, we resume with the Cornelius Vanderbilt II family, picking up in the year 1920. Reggie is going to find a new bride by 1923, Gloria Morgan. A child, also Gloria follows, and thus the wheels are in motion to get us to the 1934 custody battle for that child.

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This week, it is a bonus episode from Done and Dunne Patreon! We explore Hever Castle, standing in the Kent countryside since the 12th century, and talk about its connections with two Tudor Queens - Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves, and as Astor too - William Waldorf Astor.

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Today, we begin our investigation into the storied Gilded Age American family, the Vanderbilts. We'll start with the second generation, where no one was shy about their wealth, with the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and his wife Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt, and their seven children. It is a wild ride of 70 years of one family's history that encompasses weddings, divorces, deaths, and a name that is inextricably tied to a time in the life of America.

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This week, we are going back to the East Coast, New York City in fact – to the toniest hot spot of all the swells in the Upper East Side – – a little place called Mortimer’s. What a scene – it was the scene for all the high society set for about a decade – from 1976 to 1998.

Exploring the life and times of Mortimer’s proprietor – Glenn Bernbaum, and the swells that circulated throughout the Upper East Side hot spot for its 22 year run. 

Sources:

Fatal Charms and The Mansions of Limbo, by Dominick Dunne (amazon.com)

The Mortimer’s Bunch | Vanity Fair (vanityfair.com)

Glenn Bernbaum, a Solomon of Bistro Seating, Dies at 76 – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Lights, Camera, Action! | New York Social Diary (newyorksocialdiary.com)

Weekend Explorer: Upper East Side – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

No More Mr. Nice Guy – Nymag (nymag.com)

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In this week's episode, we investigate the mysterious 1932 death of filmmaker Paul Bern, and explore the history of his Benedict Canyon home. The Harlow-Bern House would become significant to Dominick years later, when his friend Jay Sebring, who owned it at the time when he suffered his terrible fate at the hands of the Manson Family.

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Actress Lana Turner was one of the many famous faces who embraced Dominick when he first made Hollywood his home in the mid-1950s. His timing was impeccable; a few short years after the Dunnes moved to Los Angeles, Lana Turner was caught up in the scandalous killing of her gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato.

Sources:

The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper, by Dominick Dunne (amazon.com)

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner (amazon.com)

Lana: The Lady, The Legend, The Truth, by Lana Turner (amazon.com)

LANA: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies, by Cheryl Crane and Cindy De La Hoz (amazon.com)

Detour: A Hollywood Story, by Cheryl Crane and Cliff Jahr (amazon.com)

Blonde Ambition, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com)

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If you are suffering with intimate partner abuse, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help:

• US Crisis Text Line: 741741
• US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
• UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247
• Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.1800respect.org.au or 1800 RESPECT
• Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/

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Welcome to a whole new year of Done and Dunne, darlings! In this episode, we introduce our season of Notorious, with Nick recalling his first visit to Hollywood, at age 9, and the lifelong mark it left on his imagination.

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Done & Dunne's first anniversary is coming, and Alicia is hard at work on a new set of stories for the show's second year. Get ready for Notorious, starting February 14!

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In a crossover episode from another of her podcasts, Trashy Divorces, Alicia presents the real-life person behind The Two Mrs. Grenvilles’ character of Babette Van Degan, socialite Barbara ‘Bobo’ Sears Rockefeller. When Bobo died at 91 in 2008, the New York Sun remembered her with this headline: “Bobo Rockefeller, 91, Married Well, Divorced Better.” An ex-wife of both a Sears and a Rockefeller, she was a prominent personality in the 1950s when she had both a well-publicized “Cinderella Wedding” to Standard Oil heir Winthrop Rockefeller, and a Divorce of the Century from him two years later.

Listen to Trashy Divorces wherever you listen to podcasts.

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In the third and final act of our coverage of the death of Billy Woodward, our investigation concludes with the aftermath from his shooting. From the Grand Jury to Ann's international life, there are a lot of bargains made and scores settled.

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Next up in our exploration of The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, we weave into the night of the shooting, as well as Elsie Woodward's background. Elsie is our first Mrs. Grenville, and understanding her past goes a long way to understanding all that came next. What won't Elsie do to protect her family's power and privilege?

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This podcast tends to take a somewhat dim view of Truman Capote, a longtime acquaintance and maybe sometimes frenemy of Dominick Dunne. But Truman had his bright spots, too. Today we're treating you to an episode of another of Alicia's podcasts, Love Letters to..., with a Love Letter to Truman's First Swan, Carol Saroyan Matthau.

We'll see you Monday with more of The Two Mrs. Grenvilles.

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Welcome back to a whole new arc of Done & Dunne! For the next several episodes, we'll explore the facts and fictions of the 1955 shooting death of William Woodward, Jr., by his wife Ann, and the class-wide coverup that New York's fanciest families executed. 

Dunne wrote 1985's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles as a thinly veiled fictional account of the whole sordid tale, which landed right in the sweet spot of his interest in high society's perfidy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytHsxRJm0E&t=8s

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1985/7/murder-most-swank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Zt47V3pPw

https://everything2.com/title/And+Justice+for+All%253F

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/03/05/592841492.html?pageNumber=199

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Dominick’s 1985 novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles marks the completion of his transition from Hollywood producer to writer and investigative journalist, and was an auspicious start to the second act of his career that made him a household name. Covering the events of the 1955 high society killing of William Woodward, Jr., by his wife, Ann, and the ways that the upper crust closed ranks to hide the scandal, it set the tone for all that would follow in Dominick’s final quarter century.

Coming January 10, our New York State of Crime season turns its eye to the Woodward killing and the facts and fiction behind Dominick Dunne’s The Two Mrs. Grenvilles.

Get your copy of the book at Amazon!

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The architect Stanford White (1853-1906) is credited with a host of landmark structures in New York City and beyond, but it was his sexual predation of young girls, especially the model Evelyn Nesbit, that led to his shockingly public murder and the 1907 "Trial of the Century" in its aftermath. Society figures, sexual secrets, professional jealousies, and courtroom dramas: if only Dominick Dunne had owned a time machine!

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We met Alva Vanderbilt two episodes ago, and left her hosting the ball that would launch her into New York City's high society set in 1883. Today, we chart her rise, her brutal fall, and her audacious return to society's heights, as the mother of a duchess and a campaigner for women's suffrage.

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This week on Done and Dunne, we are going to scoot through the 1890s from the Astor side of things, including warring cousins and their hotel legacy, the end of Ward McAllister and the 400, and the life, death and legacy of John Jacob Astor IV.

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Hello fellow Investigators! I am so excited to share some huge news we've been cooking up here at Hemlock Creatives.

Coming for you December 6, every weekday, is a new podcast dedicated to delightful and unexpected things. Narrated by me, Alicia, these 10 to 15 minutes episodes celebrate the people, places and events of the past.

Check out the trailer and the first three episodes up now as a bonus for you, with new episodes coming at you starting December 6!

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening now!

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This week, we take a turn in a whole new direction by wandering through high society in 19th century New York City. The Knickerbockers had their own peculiar ways, and the Queen Bee of all of them was Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, who with the assistance of Ward McAllister, dictated the terms of the city's emerging elites with the creation and implementation of The 400. 

But in 1883, a sassy southern belle, Alva Smith Vanderbilt, shook Knickerbocker society to its very core by throwing a party, which brought the Gilded Age to New York City. 

Let's investigate!

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In this edition of A New York State of Crime, Alicia illuminates a Dominick-adjacent story, that of the mysterious 1965 death of crime reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or the result of her investigation into the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

Sources:

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen, by Mark Shaw (amazon.com)

Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power, and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History, by Mark Shaw (amazon.com)

Kilgallen: A Biography of Dorothy Kilgallen, by Lee Israel (amazon.com)

Dorothy Kilgallen (spartacus-educational.com)

Local author says columnist cracked the JFK case in 1965, just… (padailypost.com)

What Did Dorothy Know? (washingtonpost.com)

Spilling Secrets | Vanity Fair | April 2006 (archive.vanityfair.com)

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Today, Alicia takes us back to wartime New York, for the scandal that rocked 1940s cafe society. Our man Nick described the case this way in his July 2000 Vanity Fair story:

A young, attractive socialite, Patricia Lonergan, is found naked in her bedroom, bludgeoned and strangled to death. The accused: her wildly handsome, devastatingly charming husband, Wayne, a fortune hunter whose lurid alibi shocks even New York’s toughest police officers and tabloid reporters. The murder and subsequent trial were the media sensation of 1943 and ’44, played out against the cafe-society backdrop of the Stork Club and El Morocco.

Let’s investigate!

Sources

Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon affiliate link)

The Talented Mr. Lonergan, by Dominick Dunne (archive.vanityfair.com)

The Stork Club | Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip | American Masters | PBS (YouTube link)

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Welcome to Season 2: A New York State of Crime! Today, Alicia has the story of the lethal love triangle, and gruesome murder, that sent shockwaves from Long Island to Wall Street. The 2001 slaying of multi-millionaire investment banker Ted Ammon in his East Hampton home generated salacious headlines for years. Our man Nick covered the case in a 2005 episode of Power, Privilege, and Justice, and today's Done & Dunne also includes contemporaneous reporting by Vanity Fair's Michael Shnayerson, The Daily Mail's Lydia Warren, and more.

Sources:

• Murder in East Hampton | Vanity Fair | January 2002 (archive.vanityfair.com)
• The Murder in East Hampton | Ted Ammon | Crime Documentaries (YouTube link)
• A Murder Mystery, A Money Mess (BusinessWeek via archive.org)
• Twins adopted by wealthy banker who was bludgeoned to death by mother's lover in Hamptons home reveal guilt at how she turned them against him before his murder (dailymail.co.uk)
• 59 Middle Lane, East Hampton, NY 11937 (townandcountryhamptons.com)
• MY SLAY-DAY SEX WITH TED – AMMON'S LOVE TELLS OF HOT TRYST (nypost.com)
• MERRY WIDOW RAKES IT IN WITH TED'S PROPERTY (nypost.com)
• Court TV’s Power Privilege and Justice: Rich Man, Poor Man, Season 7, Episode 31. Original airdate February 16, 2005.

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Dearest Investigators: As promised, a brand new season of Done and Dunne is headed your way starting Monday, November 1! Featuring a sordid cast of high society figures, the new season, "A New York State of Crime," follows our man Nick from Manhattan to Montauk, from the Hudson to the Hamptons, as he unravels the scandals, crimes, misdemeanors, and, oh, so many murders.

Catch up on Season One now, and get ready for A New York State of Crime on Mondays, starting November 1.

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Remembering Dunne on the anniversary of his death, August 26, 2009, at the age of 83. Alicia shares Michael Hogan's Vanity Fair remembrance from November 2009. 

Catch up on Done & Dunne's first season now! Season Two premieres November 1 with new episodes every Monday!

Our Man Dominick

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Alicia springboards off a paragraph in Dominick Dunne's 1991 Vanity Fair article "Damage" to walk us through the mysterious murder of American painter and socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer. Was it a CIA hit? Did Meyer know too much about the assassination of her longtime lover, JFK?

Sources:

DAMAGE | Vanity Fair | October 1991

Then And Now: Grey Gardens (YouTube link)

Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace, by Peter Janney (Amazon link)

A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer, by Nina Burleigh (Amazon link)

Parting the curtains at Grey Gardens (YouTube link)

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In the second part of this week's Done and Dunne, Alicia continues through Dominck's 1984 exploration of the life of Candy Spelling - There are trains! There are tour buses! - with updates from her post-1984 life, too. Stacie's still hanging out for it, too.

Other Sources:

Randy Spelling: Father's Will and Sister Tori | Where Are They Now | Oprah Winfrey Network (YouTube link)

Life not always sweet for Tori Spelling's mother Candy (thestar.com)

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This week, Alicia invited her Trashy Divorces co-host Stacie to join as they attempt to work through Dominick's August 1984 Vanity Fair piece Candy's Dynasty, about the extravagant lifestyle of Candy and Aaron Spelling. It's a Leo Season special!

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Last week, Alicia had a chance to talk to Robert Hofler, author of the 2017 Dunne biography Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts, for a far-ranging conversation about our man Nick. Hear the rest of this illuminating conversation about the man behind the books and TV's Power, Privilege, and Justice, our man Nick.

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This week, Alicia had a chance to talk to Robert Hofler, author of the 2017 Dunne biography Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts, for a far-ranging conversation about our man Nick. In what turned into the first half of the conversation, Robert illuminates the joys and contradictions of Dominick's life, and also shares some insights into Dunne's complicated friendship with Truman Capote and his relationship with his brother, John Gregory Dunne, and sister-in-law, Joan Didion.

Look for part two on Monday, July 12, and until then - keep on investigating.

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In this episode of Done and Dunne, we are talking about Truman Capote's Black And White Ball. Held at The Plaza Hotel on November 28, 1966, this was the Party Of The Century. Also, not the original Black and White Ball - that was hosted by the Dominick and Lenny back in 1964.

This episode covers it all - the reason for the party, the planning, the guest list, the fashion, the competition, and all the underlying drama that Truman will pack into his big night. It is quite a ride, and a set-up to future episodes coming in the next few weeks for you too!

Link to the mentioned La Cote Basque 1965 episode: https://www.trashydivorces.com/2021/06/13/s10e10-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap-truman-capotes-la-cote-basque-1965-celebrity-lawyer-marvin-mitchelson/

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Our man Nick wasn't always scribbling furiously in a courtroom, and his Hollywood roots were never far from his mind. To whit: In 1984, he sat to interview screen goddess Ava Gardner. Alicia weaves his words with Gardner's own, from the book she published years after, filling in the portrait of this legendary star.

Sources:

Fatal Charms and The Mansion of Limbo, by Dominick Dunne

Ava: My Story, by Ava Gardner

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In this episode of Done and Dunne, Dominick will find a new way to continue his warrior of justice quest, this time investigating and writing about the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut. The accused is from generations of money and influence, and Dunne's role within this case will bring some kind of reckoning for this horrific crime.

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Dominick Dunne never got around to writing about the murder of Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich in 1976, but he devoted an episode of his 2002-2009 television series, Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice, to the killing – and the mockery of a trial that followed.

Spider, a popular fixture in the Aspen scene, was shot by his longtime live-in girlfriend, singer-actress Claudine Longet. This is approximately where the agreed-upon facts end. Alicia sets the stage and then takes us through the trial and its aftermath, where Longet’s Hollywood lawyer, paid for by her crooner ex-husband Andy Williams, fully overwhelmed the sleepy ski town’s police and prosecutors.

Sources:

Claudine Longet | The Murder of Spider Sabich | Crime Documentaries (YouTube link)

Andy Williams Says of Claudine (people.com)

Andy Williams denies calling ex-wife Claudine Longet a ‘crazy-type girl’ at her 1977 trial (nydailynews.com)

27 Sep The Incandescent Life and Untimely Death of Spider Sabich (tahoequarterly.com)

Alicia covering this case for Trashy Divorces (trashydivorces.com)

Moon River – Andy Williams (YouTube link)

Andy Williams ‘Battle Hymn Of The Republic’ 45 rpm (YouTube link)

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It was a wrenching crime followed by an appalling miscarriage of justice, chronicled by none other than the grieving father of the victim. Alicia takes us through the conclusion of the trial of the man who strangled Dominique Dunne to death, presided over by a self-serving judge with a soft spot for the defense team, with a verdict rendered by a jury which was not allowed to hear key evidence as it debated lesser charges than the prosecution wanted.

Past episodes in this arc

Dominique Dunne

The Trial of Dominique Dunne's Killer, Part One

Sources

Dominick Dunne: After The Party (Documentary, Amazon link)

Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of His Daughter's Killer, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com)

Intimate Partner Violence Resources

(Thank you to Erica Kelley of Southern Fried True Crime for compiling this list)

If you are suffering with intimate partner abuse, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help:

• US Crisis Text Line: 741741
• US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
• UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247
• Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-737-732
• Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/

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Friends, a quick programming note. To ensure consistency, Done & Dunne is going to an every-other-week schedule starting Monday, April 26, with the conclusion of the trial of Dominque Dunne's murderer. Look forward to longer, more in-depth episodes every other Monday, and thank you so much for your support of this labor of love.

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We have certain underlying assumptions about how the criminal justice works, and how the courtroom will treat the grieving family of a murder victim. Nick sure did, until it was his family gathered in a Los Angeles courthouse, watching a grave miscarriage of justice play out as the man who murdered his daughter Dominique stood trial.

Intimate Partner Violence Resources

(Thank you to Erica Kelley of Southern Fried True Crime for compiling this list)

If you are suffering with intimate partner abuse, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help:

• US Crisis Text Line: 741741
• US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
• UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247
• Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-737-732
• Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/

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In this Done and Dunne episode, Alicia talks about the lynchpin in Dominick's First Act Hollywood downfall, occurring during the filming of Ash Wednesday, starring the legendary Elizabeth Taylor. Dunne profiles Elizabeth for Vanity Fair in December 1985's "The Red Queen". Theirs is a tale of friendship, respect, and recovery and an excellent example of the kind of information Dominick is able to solicit in his pieces.

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In this high society and hot gossip of an episode, Dominick Dunne weaves the tale of much married and much widowed Lady Enid Kenmare as first told in his March 1991Vanity Fair piece "Memento Mori". Lots of marriages, scandals, and a woman who was quite a legend.

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Alicia explores the odd intersection of two of her favorite fandoms: Our man Nick and the king of laid back music, Jimmy Buffett. Their connection point occurred in the late 1950s, when Dominick Dunne was casting a forthcoming show called Adventures in Paradise and handed off his business card to a handsome man he met in a coffee shop. That man was Gardner McKay, who would become a heartthrob during three seasons helming the Tiki III through shirtless adventures across the South Pacific. One future pirate that McKay inspired a young Jimmy Buffett.

Further Reading:

Dominick Dunne: After The Party (Amazon link)

We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About (YouTube)

Beautiful Swimmers (YouTube)

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Alicia follows Dominick's gaze to California and tells the story of Muriel and Seema Silberstein and the 96% of the shares of the Beverly Hills Hotel they owned in equal proportion. It was that last 4% that drove them over the edge. Beverly Hills was scandalized. Dominick was intrigued.

Further reading:

Beverly Hills Coup, by Dominick Dunne. Vanity Fair, February 1986

Fatal Charms and the Mansions of Limbo, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon link)

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A deeply personal tragedy, and a horrific crime, accelerates Dominick's transition into a warrior for justice. This week we meet Dominique Dunne, the beloved California child of Nick and Lenny, whose murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend in 1982 was chronicled for Vanity Fair in her grieving father's own words.

Intimate Partner Violence Resources

(Thank you to Erica Kelley of Southern Fried True Crime for compiling this list)

If you are suffering with intimate partner abuse, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help:

• US Crisis Text Line: 741741
• US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233
• UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247
• Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-737-732
• Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/

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In this episode, Alicia tells the story of the feud between our man Nick and Frank Sinatra, which led to a bizarre altercation at The Daisy, the “it” place for Hollywood’s movers and shakers in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sources:

Eighty-Two Very Good Years (newyorker.com)

Excerpt: Craig Brown on Frank Sinatra, Dominick Dunne, and Phil Spector (vanityfair.com)

The Daisy in Beverly Hills (martinostimemachine.blogspot.com)

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese - Best Profile of Sinatra (esquire.com)

Dominick Dunne: After The Party (amazon.com)

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Welcome to the premiere of Done & Dunne! Alicia takes us through Dominick Dunne’s first act, from a comfortable childhood marred by conflict with his father, to a Hollywood career that gradually gave way to substance misuse, the breakdown of his marriage, and finally, a long stay at a remote cabin in Oregon where Nick began to piece himself back together. 

Sources for this episode:

Dominick Dunne: After the Party (Documentary, Amazon link)

A Death in the Family (Essay by Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair, May 2003)

The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper (Book by Dominick Dunne, Amazon link)

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Welcome to the Done and Dunne Podcast - the podcast for all things Dominick Dunne. Coming to you Mondays beginning March 2021!

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