Done & Dunne
A podcast exploring writer Dominick Dunne's quest for justice amidst his incisive commentary of the high society set. Alicia (Trashy Divorces) leads a far ranging romp through the novels and Vanity Fair columns of one of the 20th century’s most unforgettable literary contributors. Covering courthouses and country clubs, Dunne’s voice was one for the ages, and Done & Dunne ensures that voice can continue to resonate with audiences today.
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May 9, 2025 • 5 mins
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In her podcast Psychedelic Women, Rainbow talks to the women who lived and made the counterculture in 1960s San Francisco and, eventually, the world. It's a fascinating, beautifully crafted show featu...
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In this episode, we conclude Dominick Dunne’s time in Washington DC covering the 1999 Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton. This week, there are a few run-ins with Kennedy family members, a little exploration about Linda Tripp’s role in the whole scandal, and Dunne’s time watching the trial too. Our man Nick is reckoning with many feelings in this very gossipy and heartfelt piece from 1999.
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In this episode, we travel with Dominick Dunne fresh out of Paris in 1998 and into Washington DC in 1999. Our man Nick is still a bit out of his element inside the beltway, but he will get his bearings fairly quickly and thankfully tell us all about it. Dunne wrote about his time in January 1999 for Vanity Fair in a piece titled Mr. Dunne Goes to Washington, and it is revealing in many ways, even almost thirty years later into the ...
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April 22, 2025 • 53 mins
Investigators, it is a double drop week here on Done and Dunne! We turn our focus in this episode to Nick’s sister-in-law Joan Didion, wo is really having a moment this month!
The archives of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne are available now at the New York Public Library, after their acquisition in 2023. Additionally, there is a whole new work from Joan dropping April 22 – today – titled Notes to John. This release gives an al...
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April 21, 2025 • 63 mins
In this exciting double Done and Dunne bonus, we explore the life of Betsy Bloomingdale, the legendary hostess and Queen of California, at least as it concerns the reins of power of politics, royalty, and Hollywood.
The first part of our Betsy coverage includes all the basics, a bit about her relationship with the legendary designer Billy Haines, and her fabulous style with entertaining too. No one hosted a party like Betsy. We fol...
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April 14, 2025 • 34 mins
This week, we conclude our journey into Dominick Dunne’s time in Paris for the January 1998 couture shows. So many more shows, including the collections of Alexander McQueen, Thierry Mugler, and Karl Lagerfeld. There is a Princess Diana moment, and a few international and political drops too, including Dunne’s rapprochement with Adnan Khashoggi and the brewing Clinton scandal in Washington D.C., which is beginning at the time to ge...
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April 7, 2025 • 69 mins
In our continuing journey from the land of haute couture in Paris in January of 1998, Dominick Dunne will continue his walk down the runway. Luckily for us, we have a whole of threads to pull together this week.
Take out your index cards, investigators! We are spilling the details on so many characters in this one, including the well married The Miller Sisters, Ellin Saltzman, Alfred Taubmann, Jayne Wrightsman, Coco Chanel, Nan K...
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March 31, 2025 • 39 mins
Fashionista investigators, this one is for you! In a little break from true crime, Dominick Dunne travels to Paris for the January 1998 couture collections, and what a time he had! In this mix of high fashion and celebrity, our man Nick is catching on quickly in this world, and revealing all the inside scoop. From the beginnings of couture to its Paris history, from one show and event to another, it is quite a debut week for Domini...
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March 24, 2025 • 58 mins
In this week’s conclusion of Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Cuevas de Larrain’s story, we examine her life from the early 1960s on, including more ballet, a much younger husband, and ultimately, the battle over her estate.
Also included, the defection of Rudolf Nureyev from the Soviet Union, the murder of Jan de Vroom, and so many recurring characters within our universe of Nick.
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March 17, 2025 • 44 mins
In this next installment of Dominick Dunne’s reporting on Margeret Rockefeller Strong, we investigate her first husband, George de Cuevas. George was a real fan of the ballet, which his wife lovingly supported through his lifetime, and even a little after his death.
George did enjoy a theatrical and artistic lifestyle, including delicate duels as well as hosting the Party of the Century in 1953 in Biarritz. He also enjoyed bringin...
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March 12, 2025 • 7 mins
The Gabor sisters were some of the most iconic cultural figures in the second half of the 20th century, having arrived on our shores from Nazi-occupied Hungary, where they experienced loss and engaged in heroic resistance. Along with their mother, Jolie, sisters Eva, Zsa Zsa, and Magda, stormed the mid-century zeitgeist and lived through extremely complicated family dynamics, as well as complicated romantic entanglements - includin...
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March 10, 2025 • 38 mins
In this episode, we meet Margaret Strong, granddaughter of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller. Dominick Dunne covered her life and times in detail as well as the courtroom battle over her estate in 1987. Margaret is not the only character coming into this epic tale. This Rockefeller heiress had a penchant for effete men – both marrying and supporting them in their dance endeavors too.
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March 3, 2025 • 115 mins
In this extended encore episode, we revisit The Two Mrs. Grenvilles arc to explore both the fact and fiction 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...
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February 24, 2025 • 43 mins
This week, we wrap up the nasty feud of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dominick Dunne. All through 2003, these two have been tossing around all the words. What happens in August of 2003, and what is the ultimate conclusion to this sordid tale? How much justice was served anyway?
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February 21, 2025 • 55 mins
We move into summer of 2003, and now Dunne and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are just letting their battle take over the press. In this bonus episode, we visit the New York Magazine essay that everyone was talking about it. The feud between Nick and Bobby is most certainly underway, but Dunne is going to find himself in some additional legal perils.
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February 17, 2025 • 39 mins
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.
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February 10, 2025 • 56 mins
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.
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February 3, 2025 • 49 mins
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 S...
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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 presi...
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January 20, 2025 • 34 mins
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.
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