Done & Dunne

Welcome to a whole new season of Done and Dunne, where we take a journey into the life, writings, and connections of Truman Capote, and the circle he collected. In this introduction to this coming season, we set the stage for our journey.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

We conclude our investigative journey through Palm Beach with dip into Dorothy Spreckels Munn and her home, Amado, both two true grand dames of Palm Beach.All sources can be found at doneanddone.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 continue our investigation this week in Palm Beach with a little dip into the two homes known as Winter White Houses – La Querida and Mar-a-Lago, each with its own storied history. La Querida was the Kennedys’ winter place for over 60 years with many architectural spiderwebs, including Addison Mizner and Maurice Fatio. Mar-a-Lago was built by Marjorie Merriweather Post as one of her PB homes, where she lived for almost 50 years. Donald Trump will acquire this property in 1985, right as Dominick Dunne is coming to investigate.All sources can be found at doneanddone.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

Holy cats, y'all! This week we are doing a little run down of the Grand Dames of Palm Beach, according to The Shiny Sheet, originally aired as a Not Dunne Yet on Patreon. This one was just too good not to share! So many names, so much real estate!We visit with some names we know, like Sue Whitmore and Mary Sanford. We spend a little time with a few new grand dames into our investigation, Like Jessie Donahue, Mona Williams and Eva Stotesbury.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

In our continuing quest to find the real Palm Beach, this episodes explores the stories of two of the most infamous women in the scene. First up, Gregg Sherwood Dodge, widowed before her dirty divorce was final from Horace E. Dodge. Next up, Roxanne Pulitzer - one-half of the most famous of all Palm Beach divorces. Her divorce from Peter Pulitzer was all shady business - Roxanne never stood a chance at a fair shake.All sources can be found at doneanddone.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

Continuing in our Palm Beach Chronicles, this week we pick up the thread of Henry M. Flagler, big time deal in the town, and the tragic history of his three wives: Mary Harkness, Ida Alice Shourds, and Mary Lily Kenan.All sources can be found at doneanddone.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 continue our investigation into Palm Beach this week with a journey into Henry M. Flagler and his hotels, The Royal Poinciana and The Breakers, that put this exclusive Florida community on the map, and investigate the urban legend of Palm Beach removing the laborers who built these magnificent buildings.Last, we take a peek into the exclusive club scene with the details on The Everglades, The Bath and Tennis, and The Palm Beach Country Club. All sources can be found at doneanddone.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 our continuing investigation into Dominick Dunne's coverage of the real Palm Beach, we journey into the life and love of Celia Lipton Farris. Famous at 15, married to the man who invents milk cartons, and a legendary society hostess, Celia's life and spiderwebs might surprise you!All sources can be found at doneanddone.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

Oh my – we are working our way through some of the stories Dominick Dunne got a piece of in his investigations into this sunny fantasy land for the very wealthy.In this episode, we sleuth around the stories of Susan H. Whitmore, the Listerine heiress, and Mollie Wilmot, who became famous in 1984 when a 200-foot-long tanker ran into her Palm Beach seawall.All sources can be found at doneanddone.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

Continuing our investigation today, we move along to the gentlemen that Dominick Dunne touches upon in his April 1986 Vanity Fair 1986 investigation. There is a lot of unpack in this one! Douglas Fairbanks Jr. becomes a real celebrity around the island in his home, The Vicarage - not to be outdone by Paul Ilyensky, with his many connections into the high society scene. We conclude with a dive into Arndt Krupp sailing us through this leg of our journey with our man Nick, attempting to discover the real Palm Beach. All sources can be found at doneanddone.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