Done & Dunne

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 is a flourishing seaside vacation village for the wealthy, coming in droves to exclusive luxury hotels for a summer escape.This is Newport from the 1500s to the 1870s – let’s set the scene for the most exclusive and expensive of Heiress playgrounds in the Gilded Age.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 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, helpfully arranged by Minnie Cushing, his second wife. This one is loaded with spiderwebs and some sleuthing from Dominick Dunne too!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

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

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 is eyeing Jim as the most likely suspect in her slaying.All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com.Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon!SponsorsThis episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/dunne and get on your way to being your best self.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 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 wife Lita, her parents and friends too. This slice will take us to the couple moving to Palm Beach in 1983, acquiring the home that Jim Sullivan thinks will take him to the top of high society.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 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 far from the end, or the best, of her story.Sources and more at doneanddunne.com.Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.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, 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 anticipation of his coming third act, connected through a sandwich of Frank Sinatra layers.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 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 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