Done & Dunne

This week we continue our journey into the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, taking him through the early 1960s. Here, he leaves his actor days behind and with some real cash and bravado behind him, becomes the head of Production for Paramount Pictures. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon ! To advertise on Done & Dun...

In our continuing investigation into the Six Degrees of Robert Evans, this episode focuses on his years from 1956 through 1961. Robert begins as an actor and will end this five year period with an ex-wife, a fortune, and a new production career in Hollywood. Connected into this episode: Norma Shearer, Jimmy Cagney, David O. Selznick, Darryl Zanuck, Ernest Hemingway, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Lana...

For the next few weeks, we are leaving Newport to visit the West Coast, to investigate the incredible life, times, and connections of Robert Evans, a film legend, who was already getting around long before he made his entrance in Hollywood. This first episode of this ‘Six Degrees’ series focuses on Evans’ early years, including appearances from Mike Todd, Dick van Patten, and John F. Kennedy, amon...

In this final episode of the Sunny and Claus von Bülow arc, we investigate the fallout from the verdict in the second trial, its aftermath, and provide Dunne the final words, on Sunny's behalf. 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 visi...

In the four days of jury deliberations in the 1985 trial of Claus von Bulow, Dominick Dunne is very deep into his reporting on this piece, even landing an invite to Clarendon Court from Sunny’s children. There is also a very revealing dinner as well with the press pool. Our man Nick wastes no time as everyone is awaiting the final verdict for Claus, and what it will mean for so many. All sources c...

In this episode, we continue our investigation into Sunny and Claus von Bülow, dipping into all the information Dominick Dunne is gathering during the 1985 re-trial of Claus for twice attempting to murder Sunny. Our man Nick talks with everyone during the trial, and reports all the inside scoop from these summer weeks. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investigation wit...

In this episode, we continue our journey into Sunny and Claus von Bülow, and answer the question posed in the previous episode – who is the mysterious Mrs. Reynolds? It doesn’t take Claus von Bulow too long to move onto his appeal from his 1982 conviction and onto his next mistress, Andrea Reynolds as Dominick Dunne will reveal within Fatal Charm: The Social Web of Claus von Bülow . All sources ca...

In this episode, we continue our journey into Sunny and Claus von Bülow. This week, Sunny is placed into her final and irreversible coma in December 1980, and her husband Claus will stand trial for his crimes in the spring of 1982. 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...

This week we pull one from the Patreon Vault to explore Clarendon Court in Newport RI, the home and its colorful history with so many spiderwebs. From its construction to its century of legendary owners, there is much more to this home than the location of two attempted murders. Clarendon Court also served as the location for the last of Grace Kelly’s films. Grace was a friend of Dominick Dunne’s...

In this episode, we continue our journey into Sunny and Claus von Bülow, taking them from their June 1966 marriage to Christmas 1980, as the second attempted murder of Sunny by Claus at Clarendon Court, their Newport RI home. The fourteen years covered here takes our couple from happiness to adultery and then suspicious of even darker themes, before it all comes crashing down. All sources can be f...

We begin a deeper investigation into the scandal that rocked high society in the 1980s, the twice attempted murder of Sunny von Bulow and the subsequent trials of her second husband Claus von Bulow for those crimes. In this first episode, we introduce and get to know the main characters in this story, Martha “Sunny” Sharp Crawford and Claus von Bulow. What happens in their lives before and up to t...

In this Done and Dunne episode, we are going to check in on Dominick Dunne, in the years between 1980 and 1985. Dunne is coming into his third act in these years, from recovery in an Oregon cabin to releasing The Two Mrs. Grenvilles to launching into his new career as an investigative journalist, beginning with the 1985 trial of Claus von Bulow. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Cont...

Some stories have so much trash it's hard to know where to begin, but for scion of the Standard Oil fortune Hugh D. Auchincloss, it's hard to know even where to stop. Auchincloss, about as blue blood as you can get, was married three times, and through that particular journey, ended up being step-father to the future Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwell, from his third marriage, as well as...

In this edition of Done and Dunne, we dig a little deeper into the Gilded Age heyday of Newport, in all of its summer season glory. It took a lot of money to play in the scene, but it goes set the stage for how out next two heiresses operate. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon ! To advertise on Done & Dunne, pl...

In this week’s episode in our Heiress Tour, we explore the life and legend of James Gordon Bennett, Jr., known internationally for his sporting, sailing, and spending. His is a story you won’t soon forget – like the expletive that is named for him. Bennett is the man to blame for a great deal of the coming age in Newport R.I. when he establishes The Casino in 1880. All sources can be found at  don...

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...

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,...

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 ca...

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://w...

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...

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...

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 fa...

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 . Con...

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 anticipat...

We begin our summer season by taking a peek into a very special letter Dominick Dunne receives from Truman Capote in 1978. At this time, Dunne is trying to figure out what his next steps are after hitting his Hollywood rock bottom, and this surprise missive from Capote becomes a guidepost along the way to Dominick's Third Act. All sources can be found at  doneanddunne.com . Continue your investiga...