Done & Dunne

Welcome to a whole new year of Done and Dunne, darlings! In this episode, we introduce our season of Notorious, with Nick recalling his first visit to Hollywood, at age 9, and the lifelong mark it left on his imagination.Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Done & Dunne's first anniversary is coming, and Alicia is hard at work on a new set of stories for the show's second year. Get ready for Notorious, starting February 14! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a crossover episode from another of her podcasts, Trashy Divorces, Alicia presents the real-life person behind The Two Mrs. Grenvilles’ character of Babette Van Degan, socialite Barbara ‘Bobo’ Sears Rockefeller. When Bobo died at 91 in 2008, the New York Sun remembered her with this headline: “Bobo Rockefeller, 91, Married Well, Divorced Better.” An ex-wife of both a Sears and a Rockefeller, she was a prominent personality in the 1950s when she had both a well-publicized “Cinderella Wedding” to Standard Oil heir Winthrop Rockefeller, and a Divorce of the Century from him two years later.Listen to Trashy Divorces wherever you listen to podcasts.Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the third and final act of our coverage of the death of Billy Woodward, our investigation concludes with the aftermath from his shooting. From the Grand Jury to Ann's international life, there are a lot of bargains made and scores settled.Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Next up in our exploration of The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, we weave into the night of the shooting, as well as Elsie Woodward's background. Elsie is our first Mrs. Grenville, and understanding her past goes a long way to understanding all that came next. What won't Elsie do to protect her family's power and privilege?Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This podcast tends to take a somewhat dim view of Truman Capote, a longtime acquaintance and maybe sometimes frenemy of Dominick Dunne. But Truman had his bright spots, too. Today we're treating you to an episode of another of Alicia's podcasts, Love Letters to..., with a Love Letter to Truman's First Swan, Carol Saroyan Matthau. We'll see you Monday with more of The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to a whole new arc of Done & Dunne! For the next several episodes, we'll explore the facts and fictions of the 1955 shooting death of William Woodward, Jr., by his wife Ann, and the class-wide coverup that New York's fanciest families executed. Dunne wrote 1985's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles as a thinly veiled fictional account of the whole sordid tale, which landed right in the sweet spot of his interest in high society's perfidy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytHsxRJm0E&t=8shttps://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1985/7/murder-most-swankhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Zt47V3pPwhttps://everything2.com/title/And+Justice+for+All%253Fhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/03/05/592841492.html?pageNumber=199 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dominick’s 1985 novel The Two Mrs. Grenvilles marks the completion of his transition from Hollywood producer to writer and investigative journalist, and was an auspicious start to the second act of his career that made him a household name. Covering the events of the 1955 high society killing of William Woodward, Jr., by his wife, Ann, and the ways that the upper crust closed ranks to hide the scandal, it set the tone for all that would follow in Dominick’s final quarter century.Coming January 10, our New York State of Crime season turns its eye to the Woodward killing and the facts and fiction behind Dominick Dunne’s The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. Get your copy of the book at Amazon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The architect Stanford White (1853-1906) is credited with a host of landmark structures in New York City and beyond, but it was his sexual predation of young girls, especially the model Evelyn Nesbit, that led to his shockingly public murder and the 1907 "Trial of the Century" in its aftermath. Society figures, sexual secrets, professional jealousies, and courtroom dramas: if only Dominick Dunne had owned a time machine!Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We met Alva Vanderbilt two episodes ago, and left her hosting the ball that would launch her into New York City's high society set in 1883. Today, we chart her rise, her brutal fall, and her audacious return to society's heights, as the mother of a duchess and a campaigner for women's suffrage.Advertise with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices