Done & Dunne

In this episode, we investigate the most exclusive party in Palm Beach, The Coconuts. It is a New Years Eve ritual, enjoyed by a very privileged few. For a town mostly run by the ladies, this is the one night the men take over the gala in thanks to the Grand Dames. Something must be amazing out the event – it celebrated its 100th anniversary December 31, 2022.  All sources can be found at doneanddone.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is a whole new season, investigators! This month we travel to one of the most exclusive, and wealthy, communities in the high society scene - Palm Beach, Florida. Dominick Dunne goes on a quest early in his Vanity Fair career that will continue through the years. This season posits the question: What is the Real Palm Beach? Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Further Reading Fatal Charms: And Other Tales of Today, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon link) The Women of Palm Beach, by Dominick Dunne, April 1986, Vanity Fair   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, 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

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. 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 deep dive into the whole history of one home in Laurel Canyon, with a number of owners connecting into our investigation. Our focus is 7708 Woodrow Wilson Drive, a beautiful English Country home built by Natalie Wood's parents, and where she begins her married life with Robert Wagner. Natalie sells the home in the 1960s to the "Earth Mother of Laurel Canyon" Cass Elliot, who entertains in grand style until her death in 1974. Musician Harry Nilsson enters the frame from here, with Ringo Starr as a featured player. Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon have many years in the home, eventually selling to Beverly D'Angelo in 2008. So many players in our universe floated in and out through the decades in this home, along with perhaps some actual floating ghosts. All the spooky encounters are also included in today's story! 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

Any day is a terrific day to talk about Natalie Wood, and this week the beloved actress is coming into full focus on Done and Dunne. Included in this first episode of Natalie Wood Week, we investigate her childhood and early stardom, along with those family complications. Next it is her teenage years, with the accompanying struggles found in Hollywood for a young woman. Natalie’s two marriages to and one divorce from Robert Wagner is a focus, although her second divorce and love affairs are covered as well. The spiderwebs are off the charts in this one bringing in many previous players into the frame.  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 our focus centers on Mart Crowley, American Playwright most well known for his 1968 play The Boys In The Band. Within this episode, we take Mart from a terrible childhood in Mississippi to Catholic University, to Elia Kazan and Natalie Wood, and all the spiderwebs of his career before creating this pioneering work.  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 begin our look into Mart Crowley and his breakthrough play "The Boys in the Band" in a slightly offbeat way. Mart's life and times, and Dunne's role within the creation of the play and the movie version are essential parts of this investigation, but here in the beginning of these episodes, we are wandering back to LOOK Magazine from December 2, 1969 with a piece by Jack Star titled "A Changing View of Homosexuality", which takes the pulse on what the current feeling is among folks. What was the vibe about gays in 1969? You may be surprised in a few ways as we set the stage for this pioneering work and the man behind it.  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 take a wander down memory lane in this episode, direct from Dominick Dunne himself. Dunne contributed an essay for the Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook edited by Andre Balazs. In this piece from 1997, Dunne reveals so much about his journey as it intersects through Los Angeles and the iconic hotel. 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 last episode of 2025, we honor and celebrate the life of Jacqueline de Ribes, French aristocrat, designer, fashion icon, businesswoman, film producer and philanthropist, who passed away just yesterday at the age of 96. This extraordinary woman was always getting name-checked by Dominick Dunne, and with her life and its many spiderwebs, it is easy to see why. 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 take a little time to bring Dominick Dunne’s First Noël, Noël Coward to the main feed! Noël Coward, a legend in so many ways, was an enormous influence for Dominick Dunne, and well, the rest of the high society and theatre world too, as Alicia detailed back in August 2022. Tune in for a ride of long ago ghosts and so many spiderwebs! 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

It is a double drop this week to talk about one more of Truman Capote’s lost treasures. Who knew Truman was an artist? And that his creative project was making snake bite kits? This tale explores this hobby, Truman’s planned art show, and Gotham Book Mart’s involvement in the whole affair.  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 going to take a little jaunt with our man Dominick Dunne through Connecticut in this and future episodes. Dunne writes in June 2006 for Vanity Fair about a whole lot of scoops coming from the state of his home retreat. We begin with a line Nick got about a whole cache of secret papers left behind by Truman Capote investigating a case that he never will write about, although we have his research. Also, included are details of this grisly case in which Dean Corll, the Candy Man, murdered at least 28 men in Texas, soliciting the assistance of other teenagers, including Edmer Wayne Henley. It is a whole spiderweb of connected bits in this literary and true crime journey. 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 is second part of the incredible story of Lady Anne Glenconner. This episode is full of the stories and spiderwebs of Anne's third act, having incredible success with her memoirs. So many people show up in this one - with stories and a little tea-spilling too - including Princess Margaret, Lord Snowden, King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla, Mel B., Mick Jagger, and even Graham Norton too. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Sponsors Aura Frames. Get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames by using promo code DONE at checkout at auraframes.com. To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special crossover episode of Done and Dunne and Trashy Royals, Alicia introduces you to The Right Honourable The Dowager Lady Glenconner, Anne Tennant. Lady Anne’s life is truly incredible – from a privileged childhood to being a lady-in-waiting attending Queen Elizabeth II through her coronation, these are only Anne’s early years. Marriage and children follow in her life, with so many connected spiderwebs into the aristocracy, and our podcast journey.  Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Sponsors Aura Frames. Get $35 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames by using promo code DONE at checkout at auraframes.com. To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bit of a twist, we move from others’ famous homes in our journey to Dominick Dunne’s last two homes, his East Side pied-a-terre and his rustic Connecticut retreat. It is a bit of a real estate and storytelling ride, with a charming Dunne and Son story to close this cozy episode.  All sources and recommended reading can be found on our website.  Sources:  https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/dominick-dunne-connecticut-retreat https://observer.com/2010/08/the-way-he-lived-then-dunnes-midtown-penthouse-sells-for-12-m/ https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/a-glimpse-into-the-dream-state-of-a-hollywood-family/ Griffin Dunne’s The Friday Afternoon Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everyone knows that JFK was a man of vociferous appetites when it came to women, but the secret story of a possible love child fathered with a teenage maid in the Hyannis Port compound is not commonly known. Many questions persist, but the tale of JFK's maybe-baby-mama, Alicia Corning Clark, is such a quintessentially American one - from refugee to the Kennedy's to Hollywood and beyond - that we can forgive that much of the mystery remains unresolved. Included within this story are Alicia's marriages, divorces, scandals and so many spiderwebs too, from high society to the top tiers of government. 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 go all the back in this episode to Dominick Dunne’s second submission for Vanity Fair in April 1984. Dunne takes us to the Ambitious Blondes of the day, following in the footsteps of the greats before them like Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, and Grace Kelly. Included in this profile are many not-as-famous-as-they will-be blondes like Kim Basinger, Darryl Hannah, and Michelle Pfeffer. Also, a few other fair-haired ladies you might not be so familiar with, including Angelyne and Kelly Collins. Also includes a special appearance by Alana Collins Hamilton Stewart. 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 quick bonus episode, Alicia shares a little news about the main feed this week and completes the Peggy Lee coffee giveaway too! The legendary Peggy Lee is being celebrated with two brand new coffee blends from our friend ⁠Breakfast at Dominique’s⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices