Done & Dunne

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 sh...

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 to...

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,...

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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...

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...

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 swee...

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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...

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/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 Tr...

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...

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

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 meg...

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 Longe...

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 i...

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/adchoices Se...

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 o...

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 s...

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 1991 Vanity 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/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy No...

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 duri...

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 Mansion...

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...

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 (martinostimemach...

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 Du...

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