Done & Dunne

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 with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon!To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 who took him to his very first movie premiere. So many spiderwebs in this bonus episode! 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://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 their marriage in 1966?There are so many sticky spiderwebs that might surprise you in this one, including Coco Chanel, Truman Capote, Ann Woodward, and the very first case of murder by insulin poisoning – it really does all come together.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://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.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://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 the writer Gore Vidal, via his second marriage. It's this second marriage, to the former Nina Gore, that opened him to the later ponderings of step-son Gore Vidal, and his particularly poisonous pen. Get ready for a bit of a Forrest Gump journey through mid-20th century America, but in this case, a rich Forrest Gump with serious erectile dysfunction.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://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices