Done & Dunne

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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)Intimate Partner Violence ResourcesIf 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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=8shttps://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1985/7/murder-most-swankhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Zt47V3pPwhttps://everything2.com/title/And+Justice+for+All%253Fhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/03/05/592841492.html?pageNumber=199 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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)Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!SourcesJustice: 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)Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 1991Then 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 DunneAva: My Story, by Ava Gardner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 DunneThe Trial of Dominique Dunne's Killer, Part OneSourcesDominick 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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 1986Fatal Charms and the Mansions of Limbo, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon link) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.