Done & Dunne (Hemlock Creatives)

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we investigate the life and times of Pamela Churchill Hayward Harriman, courtesan of the 20th century, and so much more. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon!     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  All sources and additional recommended reading can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation @ patreon.com/doneanddunne with ad-free episodes and weekly bonus episodes too!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Want more Astrology with Andy? We got you covered! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astrology-with-andy/id1558052339 https://astrologywithandy.com/ IG: @astrologywithandy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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? Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this encore Done and Dunne episode, we continue our Kennedy Chronicles with the story of Kick Kennedy, the most exuberant of the Kennedy family members. Her story is truly something – the American girl who marries into the British aristocracy – but her story, and the story of the Kennedy family, is so much more than that.  Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Find sources and recommended reading at doneanddunne.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, our investigation turns to Huguette Clark, a Gilded Age heiress whose money ultimately purchased a very reclusive life. Huguette was a talented painter, devoted to her mother, and certainly liked collecting dolls too. Also included in this week’s story are many expensive real estate threads, a trashy divorce, an ugly legal battle over her will, and a connection to Sunny von Bulow too.  Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, in A Nick in Time, we travel back to June of 2004, when Dominick Dunne attended and reported on the state funeral of Former President Ronald Reagan. In addition to a veritable ton of name dropping, Dunne also expands a bit on his relationship with Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, widow of the President.  All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the Trashy Divorces vault from January 2023, this Done & Dunne crossover episode unfolds the martial misadventure of RFK Jr. providing much backstory for our continuing investigation. We’ve covered the Kennedy family in some detail during the show’s run, but like any sprawling dynasty, there’s always more to explore! This week, Alicia brings us the backstory of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of slain Attorney General and presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy. Let’s just say that Bobby experienced a troubled youth, which was certainly not helped by the high profile murders his family was subjected to, or his family’s effectively unlimited money and prestige. After peering into RFK Jr's broken youth, Alicia brings us right up to the present day (at least, to the start of 2023, when these episodes originally aired) in the life of the notable womanizer and vaccine skeptic. With three marriages under his belt, he’s experienced disappointment and tragedy in love – but it’s never stopped him from continuing to try! Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Find sources and more at this episode's showpage at doneanddunne.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we travel alongside Dominick Dunne on a quest for justice in the murder of Martha Moxley, slain in the exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, on October 30, 1975. The investigation was dormant for almost two decades, but our man Nick gets a whiff of a bigger mystery during the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith in 1991. With his curiosity aroused, Dunne begins his own investigation, resulting in his 1993 novel A Season in Purgatory, a fictional telling of the crime. But Dunne hadn’t really solved anything.  With the help of a confidential informant, Dunne has access to the Sutton Report – the file the Skakel family never wants seen. Dunne is going to make sure someone sees that report to continue the journey for justice for Martha. That person is former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman.  Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Sources Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishements, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon) Trail of Guilt, by Dominick Dunne. Vanity Fair, October 2000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we conclude Dominick Dunne's role in the investigation of the murder of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1975. With the assistance of Mark Fuhrman and an 18 month grand jury investigation, an indictment was handed down to Michael Skakel in early 2000. This episode leads us through the summer of 2000 with our man Nick attending the probable cause hearing for Skakel, and all the courtroom drama attached.  Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Find sources and more at this episode's show page on doneanddunne.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we travel to March 2003 when Dominick Dunne has a very hot retort to the shots across the bow that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has taken against him in a very lengthy essay in January 2003. Our man Nick is holding nothing back in his reply, always searching for justice for Martha Moxley.  Find sources at more at this episode's show page at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we continue our investigation into the life and death of Marilyn Monroe, specifically covering the years from 1955 to 1959. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources and associated episodes can be found at doneanddunne.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources and additional recommended reading can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation @patreon.com/doneanddunne with ad-free episodes and weekly bonus episodes too!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Sponsors This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dunne and get on your way to being your best self. To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Part Seven of the Aristotle Onassis and His Lovely Ladies series, we open with the Bouvier Sisters, Jacqueline Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, taking a little R&R on Onassis’s yacht, the Christina. What was a quiet trip turns into mayhem, scandal, and controversy for the sisters, their husbands, their lovers, and their family too. How do we get from this getaway girls’ trip to the engagement of Jackie and Ari just a few years later? This episode gives you all the details, with some surprising spiderwebs too. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Do you have a story to share about Dominick Dunne? Tell Alicia at doneanddunne@gmail.com. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources and additional recommended reading can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation @patreon.com/doneanddunne with ad-free episodes and weekly bonus episodes too!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Sources and more at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Done and Dunne Podcast - the podcast for all things Dominick Dunne. Coming to you Mondays beginning March 2021! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we investigate the world of Debutantes, in all of their gloved glory through time. All sources and additional recommended reading can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation @ patreon.com/doneanddunne with ad-free episodes and weekly bonus episodes too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. In the meantime, you can check our tinyurl.com/freedunne for a few bonus episodes to tide you over until then. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. All sources can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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) Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices