Divorces come in several stages – physical, financial, legal, and emotional. The latter might be the hardest if ever to achieve. As one reporter learns with a slap in the face.

November 1933, opera singer Mary McCormic and Prince Serge Mdivani are officially divorced. But when Mdivani biographer Grace Williams tries to expose the terms of the settlement, Grace faces Mary’s wrath.

Other people and subjects include:
Prince Alexis Mdivani, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Louise Van Alen – formerly Princess Mdivani, Prince David Mdivani, Mae Murray – formerly Princess Mdivani, Princess Nina Mdivani Huberich, Princess Roussadana “Roussie” Mdivani Sert, Pola Negri – formerly Princess Mdivani, Samuel “Sam” Insull, Michael Luddy, city editor, photographer, William K. Vanderbilt III, Virginia “Birdie” Graham Fair Vanderbilt, William K. Vanderbilt II, Brooke Hart, Northwest Mounty, slap, million dollar lawsuit, Faust opera, taxi, secondhand automobile, United Airlines, Assistance League Tea Room, Cocoanut Grove, Hollywood club, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times building, Liberty Magazine, Pacific Shore Oil Company, pawnshop, Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Omaha, Detroit, Arkansas, Texas, evolution of sources, tracking down information, The Mdivani Saga by David Gigauri, Poor Little Rich Girl by David Heymann, secret unnamed source, “Who Cares” by Serge Mdivani as told to Grace Williams” unpublished manuscript, UCLA, Georgian website, Georgian community, Wikipedia, Joseph Stalin, Harry Sinclair, Teapot Dome Scandal, Washington D.C. social leader, Alabama, British ancestry, Duke of Wellington ancestor, Wellesley ancestor, Clark Gable, “Rhea / Ria” Maria Franklin Prentiss Lucas Langham, Carole Lombard, Gone With The Wind, Joan Crawford, Francois Tone, factual consistency, overplaying connections, 5 Los Angeles Times buildings, Mirror Building, 2 granite castles, Art Deco by Gordon Kaufman, new mid-century in El Segundo, Gutzon Borglum’s bronze eagle sculpture, bomb explosion, fire proof, bomb proof, earthquake proof, anti-union, American labor movement, John “J.J.” McNamara, James Barnabas “J.B.” McNamara, Clarence Darrow, Vanderbilt Cup motor racing, Crime of the Century, one of deadliest criminal acts in United States, deadliest crime to go to trial in California, tragedies, humanity, yesterday’s news, Will Smith, Chris Rock, 2022 Academy Awards, retrospectives of Mary McCormic slap, Ventura County Star, Tampa Times, Morning Call reprint, Louvre jewel heist, jewel history,…

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Fellow podcasters @WhatsHerName
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Goodpods ranks As The Money Burns in Top 8 Indie Documentary Podcasts
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The Mdivani Saga by David Gigauri
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The Silver Swan: The Search for Doris Duke by Sally Bingham
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A fortune hunter returns with his heiress bride from their honeymoon to collect her inheritance. Has he finally secured his ultimate prize?

November 1933, as birthday girl Princes Barbara Hutton Mdivani turns 21, she seems to have it all a prince for a husband and a large fortune all her own and now is a fashion and pop culture icon. But will it be enough? What else could an heiress want?

Other people and subjects include:
Prince Alexis Mdivani, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Doris Duke, Cobina Wright, Frankly Hutton, Irene Hutton, “Jeem” James Jimmy Donahue, Aunt Jessie Woolworth Donahue, Woolworth “Woolie” Donahue, Prince Serge Mdivani, Prince David Mdivani, Mary McCormic – formerly Princess Mdivani, “Alfy” Alfred Vanderbilt, Jr., Dorothy “Dottie” Fell, Pola Negri, Elsa Maxwell, James Blakeley, Frank Woolworth, Edna Woolworth Hutton, Prince David – Prince of Wales – future King Edward VIII – future Duke of Windsor, British King George V, British Queen Mary, Mahatma Gandhi, William Waldorf Astor, Joan Crawford, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., magician & mind reader Dunninger, Martin Van Buren Morris, Bobby La Branche, Hank Topping, M. Dorland “Larry” Doyles, Jane Bride, John Watts Kearney, John Carney, Gordon Sayre, Sam Piza, Mae West, Irving Berlin, Moss Hart, Clifton Webb, Marilyn Miller, Dorothy Dilley, Oscar Shaw, Anne Harding, Harry Bannister, “As Thousands Cheer” musical revue, “Hot & Bothered” play, newsworthy, headlines, Great Scavenger Hunt, farewell party, birthday party, birthday cake, simple dinner, not exceptional, Hungarian orchestra, gypsy music, Chinese proverbs, fashion, jewelry, Prohibition, champagne, wine, E.F. Hutton financial firm, press, police, crowds, fanfare, New York City mayoral race, Communist or Socialist candidate, Fifth Avenue Hutton townhome, ocean liner Bremen, Music Box, Broadway, Central Park Casino, La Rue restaurant, Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Harlem Cotton Club, Georgian delegation, Soviet State of Georgia, Communist Russia, Paris, New York City, four Barbara Hutton biographies, two unnamed sources, Barbara Hutton by Dean Jennings, Million Dollar Baby by Philip Van Rensselaer Poor Little Rich Girl by David Heymann, In Search of A Prince by Mona Eldridge, Noel Coward song Poor Little Rich Girl, tv movie, Farrah Fawcett, plagiarism lawsuit, Ethel Waters, “Supper Time” song, lynching, President Herbert Hoover, White House, Grandpa Rockefeller, Radio City Music Hall, British royals, Metropolitan Opera, Al Jolson, Walt Disney, D.W. Griffith, Ina Claire, Marie Dressler, Louis Kaufman, Jr., “Kultur” play, Hitler, Nazi, “Fan Dancer” play, burlesque, Sally Rand, fan dancing, clubs, Harlem, Greenwich Village, overlaps and connections, missing panties - skanties, autographed sock, gossip, attention, big birthdays, perverted male gaze, pervy attention, female child stars turning 18, Olsen twins – Mary-Kate and Ashley, Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown, appearance, rapid aging, reduced makeup Pamela Anderson, plastic surgery, Jennifer Anniston, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, weight loss, Fen-Phen, Atkins, gastric bypass surgery, Ozempic, semiglutide, GLP-1, rapid weight loss, pressure and obsession to be thin, too thin, silhouette, slender silhouette in Flapper & Great Depression, curvy figure in World War II, Marilyn Monroe, stress, Donna & Medrano…

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Section 2 Music: Shout for Happiness by Ray Noble & His Orchestra, Album The Great British Dance Bands
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When a prized debutante makes her debut, one heir is determined not to miss it.

November 1933, one of the most prized debutantes of this season Virginia Kent has her first coming out ball. To not miss out, John Jacob Astor VI, aka “Jakey,” charters a vehicle to bring a crew to the party. Will a love match be made?

Other people and subjects include:
Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Doris Duke, James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Eva Stotesbury, “Jakey” John Jacob Astor VI, Daisy Van Alen, William “Sam” Van Alen, Elizabeth “Betty” Kent Van Alen, Woolworth “Woolie” Donahue, “Alfy” Alfred Vanderbilt, Jr., Atwater “Atty” Kent, Jr., Virginia “Ginnie” Kent, Atwater Kent, Mabel Lucas Kent, Jonathan Kent, George Vanderbilt, Mrs. Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt Baker Amory, Raymond Guest, Winston Guest, Dorothy “Dottie” Fell, Louise Brooks Howard, Pola Negri, Elsa Maxwell, Virginia “Birdie” Graham Fair Vanderbilt, Helen Dinsmore Astor, Isabel Dodge Sloane, Margaret “Peggy Dorrance, Charlotte Dorrance, Jane Johnson – future Mrs. Heminway, Mademoiselle Louise Millet of Paris, Mrs. Donner, Mrs. Barklie – the Barklies, the Hustons / the Houstons, the Lorimers, Pierre Barbey, Jr., Screven Lorillard, Richard “Dick” deRahm, Joseph Earle Stevens Jr., Ludlow Stevens, Eleanor “Ellie” Gould, Caroline Astor, British Queen Mary, Prince Albert – Duke of York – future King George VI, colorful debutante fashion trends, study abroad, Fermata school, Veiled Prophet Queen, bow at Court of St. James, Africa big game trip, African hunting expedition, polo, horse races, scavenger hunt, gag gift, Waldorf-Astoria, Bridlespur Hunt Club, Deer Creek Country Club, Barclay Hotel, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Aquitania oceanliner, Kenya Colony, New York City, Philadelphia, Paris, Africa, St. Louis, Missouri, Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Inquirer, St. Louis Dispatch, Atwater Kent Radio, Amos & Andy, Rudy Vallee, Ellie Kemper, Phillips Carlin, President Harry Truman, United Nations, costume parties, Halloween, fresh vegetables appetizer – celery & carrots with dip, Metropolitan Opera, Atwater Kent Radio Hour, NBC & CBS radio stations, Veiled Prophet Parade and Ball, Veiled Prophet Queen of Love and Beauty, post Civil War – Reconstruction era, John G. Priest, Suzanne “Suzie” Slayback, parade floats, Jinn, Bengal lancers, Louisiana Purchase, Mother Goose, racial tensions, Percy Brown, ACTION (the Action Council to Improve Opportunities for Negroes), robber Russell Hayes, historian Thomas Spencer, protests, Mexican entourage, Irish immigrants, African American Veiled Prophet Queen, Veiled Prophet – Grand Oracle, American Birthday Parade, class warfare, trade unions, St. Louis Republican – Missouri Republican newspaper, socialist newspaper St. Louis Labor, secret society, secret organization, Ku Klux Klan – KKK, Joseph Dacus, Frank James, Jesse James, misappropriation of image, photography, printing images, woodcut, idea of perfection, stress of perfections, cracks, pressures, scandal, 1958 film The Reluctant Debutante, Vincente Minnelli, Sandra Dee, Rex Harrison, Queen Elizabeth II, Edward McLean, Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, red flags, the need of friends and family,…

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Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Charisma on Command, YouTube Episode: $120,000 Was Stolen From Me… It Was My “Friend”
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Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Sweet Sixteen And Never Been Kissed by Blue Mountaineers, Albums The Great Dance Bands & Play Hits of the 30s
Section 2 Music: As Time Goes By by Adelaide Hall, Album – Elegance 2
Section 3 Music: I’ve Got An Invitation To Dance by Roy Fox, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s
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It’s time for another Tuxedo Ball with plenty of beauties, so has this year’s most eligible bachelor finally found his future wife among them?

October 1933, the top 50 debutantes of this social season mix with the most eligible bachelors at the ultra exclusive Tuxedo Park’s Autumn Ball. Will “Jakey” John Jacob Astor VI, “Alfy” Alfred Vanderbilt, Jr., Atwater “Atty” Kent, Jr., Pierre Barbey, Jr., or David Rockefeller find their future brides among these beauties? Amongst the best buds, prized debutantes include Virginia “Ginnie” Kent, Eileen Gillespie, Ellen “Tucky” French, Beatrice “Bea” Wagstaff, and Margaret “Peggy” Dorrance.

Other people and subjects include:
Doris Duke, James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Eva Stotesbury, “Jakey” John Jacob Astor VI, William “Sam” Van Alen, Elizabeth “Betty” Kent, “Alfy” Alfred Vanderbilt, Jr., Atwater “Atty” Kent, Jr., Virginia “Ginnie” Kent, Eileen Gillespie, Ellen “Tucky” French, Dorothy “Dolly” de Milhau, Pierre Barbey, Jr., David Rockefeller, Beatrice “Bea” Wagstaff, and Margaret “Peggy” Dorrance, Leta Morris, Antonio “Toni” Frissell, Alice Andre, Alida Liviningston, Mary Schuyler Schieffelin, Emily Winslow, Joan Blair, Cornelia Blakely, Gilbert Keech, Atwater Kent, Mabel Lucas Kent, Jonathan Kent, John Rockefeller, Jr., Caroline Astor, Caroline “Carrie” Astor Wilson, British King George V, British Queen Mary, Cholly Knickerbocker, George Washington, Standard Oil heirs, Campbell Soup heiress, Brinton family, Pennsylvania Society for Sons of the American Revolution, Vogue feature, bow at Court of St. James, colonial, Gilded Age, new money, radio pioneer, industrialist, Wall Street, debutante goals, dance card, stag line, wallflowers, cutting in, debutantes, buds, bounders, bachelors, heirs, heiresses, society hostess, Junior League, junior assemblies, charity, horsey set, yachting, finishing school, sculpture, social standing, weddings, engagements, Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park, NY, Long Island, Newport, New York City, Philadelphia, Montecito, CA, Paris, Africa big game trip, trends, manners, Ward McAllister, Pierre Lorillard, William Waldorf Astor, Bruce Price, Emily Price Post, Edwin Post, Prince Edward – Prince of Wales – King Edward VII, James Potter, Griswold “Grizzy” Lorillard, tuxedo coat, men’s fashion, military mess jacket, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Astaire, Sean Connery, James Bond – Dr. No, Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Etiquette: In Society, In Business, In Politics and At Home According to Emily Post, Vanity Fair, Collier’s, McCall’s, Cotillion, Easter eggs, seeds and plotlines, George R.R. Martin, gardener, architect, writer’s block, teasers, hints, dating wasteland, dating apocalypse, New York Times – “The Trouble With Wanting Men.” MGTOW (men going their own way), incels, porn, women’s financial demands, Manolo Blahniks, A.I. sex robots & chatbots, virtual partners, human – A.I. wedding in Japan, sex robots, AI chatbots, liberal women dating boycott of Republic and conservative men, 100 years of dating, courtship, fatigue, changing rules, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon, Venice wedding, public spectacle, HBO’s The Gilded Age, Apple TV’s The Buccaneers, weddings, scandals, engagements,…

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Million Podcasts – As The Money Burns listed #14 of Top 20 Economic History Podcasts
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Section 3 Music: From the Top of Your Head by Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans, Album The Great British Dance Bands
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The freedom of travel and adventure is cut short when one heiress is spotted, and too much attention could threaten her safety.

October - November 1933, Doris Duke travels incognito to the Pacific Coast but eventually gets spotted everywhere she goes. Eventually, she ends up in Hollywood for a few special meetings.

Other people and subjects include:
Barbara Hutton, James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Walker Patterson Inman, Nanaline Duke, Jenny Renaud, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV aka “Neil,” “Ken” Kenneth Russell Unger – K. Russell, Mrs. Kenneth Unger – Mrs. K. Russell, Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Samuel “Sam” Insull, Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, Rose Douras Davies, Edward McLean, Marlene Dietrich, Cecile B. DeMille, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Josef von Sternberg, Scarlet Empress 1934, Catherine the Great role, Peter Arno, Sally O’Neill, Drexel Biddle Steele, City Commissioner Harry Finch, Harry Shipman, Nancy Randolph, incognito, aliases, pseudonyms, anonymous, potential suitors, no suitors, fan mail, cranks, cadgers, beggars, gangsters, kidnapping threats, pilot, bodyguards, news reporters, New Yorker cartoonist, actors, actresses, private railcar, yacht, extradition, Supreme Court tax case, fight, California vs. USC football game, Bellanca monoplane, air mail, air fields, air shows, air derby, transcontinental trip, Pacific Coast, Roosevelt Air Field, Hadley Field, Chicago’s Worlds Fair, Halloween, MGM Studio, Paramount Studios & commissary, Embassy Club – Los Angeles, Drake Hotel, Hotel Utah, Long Island, Reno, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Paris, Athens, Greece, New Jersey, discovering new anecdotes, uncovering new details, overlaps, Janet Snowden, her sister Marian Snowden Rospigliosi, Prince Girolamo “Jerome” Rospigliosi, Hitler, Lindbergh, “Neil” Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, connecting and figuring pseudonyms, Ti’s Hot Mess History, India Scarlett, comparative documentaries, spoilers, similar themes, sharing information, acknowledging similar subjects and topics,…

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Extra Notes / Call to Action:
Poor Little Rich Girls of the Great Depression | Everyone Hated Doris Duke & Barbara Hutton by Ti’s Hot Mess History 2 hrs 51 min May 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9648wgL78

Great Depression Heiresses Used Their $$$$ To Steal Each Other’s Men | Doris Duke VS Barbara Hutton by Ti’s Hot Mess History 1 hr 37 min May or June 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8asr_gwQw20

Feuding Heiresses | Barbara Hutton vs Doris Duke – India Scarlett October / November 2024 2 hrs 32 min October 2024
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Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
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Section 2 Music: I Guess I Will Have To Change My Plan by Ambrose & His Orchestra, Album The Great British Dance Bands
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Marrying in haste is easy, but divorces can be oh so much trickier. Two complicated marriages finally dissolve in the courtroom.

October 1933, Mae Murray is on her third attempt to divorce Prince David Mdivani. Amidst their divorce proceedings, she has several other cases related to an unpaid debt and a personal injury claim. Meanwhile Hope Diamond owner Evalyn Walsh McLean requests an insanity hearing for her wayward spouse Edward “Ned” McLean. In other news, more details on potential Lindbergh baby kidnapping suspects pop up.

Other people and subjects include:
Koran Mdivani, Mary McCormick, Prince Serge Mdivani, Pola Negri, Valentino, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Samuel Insull, Gaston Means, Cartier, Elizabeth “Betsy” Stack, Robert Stack, Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, John “Jafsie” Condon, Cemetery John, Rose Douras Davies, Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, Dr. Ross Chapman, Dr. Arthur Patrell, Edgar Allen Poe, Reverend Francis Hurney, John Gorch, Otto Hawk – Arthur Young, bridal party, loans, usury, lunacy petition, mental cruelty, controlling behaviors, erratic jealousy, alimony, community property, child support, child custody, trust, financial settlement, freedom, personal injury, leg insurance, extradited, pottery fraud, real estate embezzlement, ransom money, wrestler, racketeer, ex-convict, detective, Hope Diamond curse, morphine addiction, prostitutes, aging actress, flailing career, 1925 Merry Widow, Washington Post headquarters, Pacific Shore Oil Company, Hill, Morgan & Bledsoe, Bricklayers’, Masons’ and Plasters’ International Union, Metropolitan National Bank, Shepard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, L.A. Superior Court, Brooklyn Fox Theatre, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Athens, Greece, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, Hopewell, NJ, Youngstown, Ohio, Texas, Florida, Colorado, Scotland, Paris, Mexico, Latvia, Zelda Fitzgerald, spending sprees, alcoholism, women, dance classes, elope, European honeymoon, trained seal, trained bear, May Dixon Thacker, Teapot Dome Scandal, Elk Hills, naval oil leases, oil tycoons, President Warren Harding, U.S. Secretary of Interior Albert Fall, U.S. Attorney Harry Daugherty, Harry Sinclair, Edward Doheny, Strange Death of President Harding, Liberty Magazine, falsities, inaccuracies, retraction, revenge, Lochinvar, Walter Scott, poem, knight, Helen, laggard, Mdivani-Hutton jade necklace, Duke of Windsor brooch, Victoria & Albert South Kensington, Cartier exhibit, connections, synchronicity, frequency illusion, Baader-Meinhof, coinciding lawsuits, Unsolved Mysteries, America’s Most Wanted, History Channel, documentaries, new Mdivani book & Instagram account, scandal, overlaps, large fortunes, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez,…

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Cartier Exhibit at Victoria & Albert South Kensington, London May 27th – November 16th, 2025
https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/cartier

Searching for the Mikinaak is available via Tubi, Amazon, and YouTube
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Section 2 Music: Just A Mood by Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Album Nightfall – Sophisticated Jazz Classics
Section 3 Music: These Foolish Things by Benny Carter, Album Perfect Blues
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Another debutante season is beginning, and a new crop of beauties are already making a splash.

September – October 1933, Jakey Astor enjoys being the most eligible bachelor and is looking for a wife. Several debutantes attend early debut events before the official social season begins, while one lad turns into a professional party thrower to survive his economic downturn.

Other people and subjects include: Louise Van Alen, Vincent Astor, Eva Stotesbury, Madeleine Talmage Force Dick, Enzo Fiermonte, Katherine Force Spencer, William “Sam” Van Alen, Elizabeth “Betty” Kent Van Alen, Caroline Astor, Eileen Gillespie, Ellen “Tucky” French, Virginia Kent, Atwater Kent, Atwater Kent Jr., Betty Morris, Charles Ewing Green Lloyd, Hildegarde Graham, Miguel deBraganza, Adelaide Moffett, Alice Andre, Jorge Andre Jr., Agnes Pyne, Chadwick Wiggin, De Forest Mellon, Bayard Walker, Caroline Sawyer, Joan Blake, Katherine Blake, Nancie Stewart, Margaret Salvage, Gwendolyn Gwynne, Louise Whitehouse, Nelson McAllister Lloyd, Susanna Green Lloyd (Susannah), social factotum, social secretary de luxe, Vogue feature, debutantes, legalized beer bars, milk bar, stag line, redlight ticket, Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice quote, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Villa Rosa Newport cottage, Sonogee estate, Wheatley Hill, Muenchinger King Hotel, Hotel Pierre, Princeton University, Princeton Inn, Princeton, NJ, Ardmore, PA, Montecito, CA, Middletown, RI, Newport, Bar Harbor, Long Island, tracking down names and lineages, getting more details, hints and seeds at future storylines and scandals, marital overlaps, divorcees and remarriages, betrayals, affairs, Capote’s Swans, Swan husbands’ earlier wives, affairs, secrets, homosexuality and lesbianism, future link between characters, developing story about romance and seduction, dating again in modern era, AI sexbots and companions, frustration tolerance, negotiation, compromise,…

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Physical – Apple TV series with Rose Byrne

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Fifth Year Anniversary recap and future storylines.

Hints and teasers of themes involving love and fortune. Series tagline: All they want is love. Everyone else wants their fortune.

Other people (*referenced not specifically mentioned) and subjects include: Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, John Jacob Astor VI aka “Jakey,” Prince Alexis Mdivani, Frank Shields, Madeleine Talmage Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, Enzo Fiermonte, heirs, heiresses, marriages, divorces, weddings, scandals, betrayals, sports, life changes, challenges, envy, listener interactions

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Section 3 Music: Top Hat, White Tie and Tails by Carroll Gibbons & Boy Friends, Album Sophistication – Songs of the Thirties
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

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Some weddings might be grand, but nothing catches more attention than a good divorce scandal.

August – September 1933, the marriage of Prince Alexis Mdivani and heiress Barbara Hutton has caused a lot of press attention on the couple as well as those around them. His two older brothers, Prince Serge Mdivani and Prince David Mdivani are in the papers again for their divorces and issues around their oil company. While youngest brother Prince Alexis and Barbara enjoy positive coverage, Prince Serge finds himself in a bitter press battle with soon to be ex-wife, opera singer Mary McCormic.

Other people and subjects include: Franklyn Hutton, Louise Van Alen (referenced, not mentioned), Cobina Wright, Pola Negri, Princess Mae Murray Mdivani, Princesss Roussadana “Roussie” Mdivani Sert, Prince David – Prince of Wales – future King Edward VIII – Duke of Windsor, Lady Thelma Morgan Furness, Princess Marquesa de Portago, Lily Damita, Janet Snowden, Prince Caravita, John de Braganza, Lord Nicholas “Dickie” Mountbatten, Archpriest Jacob Smirnoff, Samuel Insull, Insull energy empire, Pacific Shore Oil Company, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Marion Campbell, Nipo Strongheart, Mary Garden, Chester MacCormic – Macomic – Macormac, Kenneth Rankin, Reba McCormic, Harold McCormick, Edith Rockefeller, Ganna Walska, terrible singer, Cowgirl soprano, opera career advice, protégé, Chicago Civic Opera House, Russia, Soviet state Georgia, Biarritz, Moscow, Paris, Los Angeles, Liberty Magazine, Good Housekeeping, new Mdivani source, Tallulah Bankhead, Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Yvonne Vallee, Rudy Vallee, divorce, remarriage, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Susan Alexander, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, Florence Foster Jenkins, Meryl Streep, Enrico Caruso, Cole Porter, Lily Pons, cult musical camp, Alexander Winton, Winton automobile, Bobby Franks, Richard Loeb, Nathan Leopold, Clarence Darrow, Eva Stotesbury, Massie Rape Trial, Los Angeles Olympics, 1932 events, Amelia Earhart, Al Capone, circular connections, reconstructing & reconnecting the past, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Queen Victoria, Prince Philip, Prince Charles – Princes of Wales – King Charles III of Great Britain, Faith Baldwin, romance writer, female novelist, What Is Wrong With American Marriages syndicated news article series – Part 6th Pitfalls of International Marriage, Mademoiselle Dollars - American dollar princess, Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, Lord Charles Cavendish, Boni de Castellane, Anna Gould, Duke of Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Gladys Deacon, Sally Rand, risque striptease dance, messy divorces, too public, chaos, high passion, burnout, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, divorce book,…

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#61 – Louise Brooks, The Girl Who Had The World In Her Hands and Lost It All
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Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Did You Mean It? By Jack Hylton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 2 Music: Stars Fell On Alabama by Lew Stone, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 3 Music: This Is The Missus by Sidney Kyte & His Piccadilly Hotel Band, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

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Another day, another danger as an heiress finds herself in double trouble, but a minor medical emergency is nothing compared to the tax man.

September – October 1933, Doris Duke finds herself in the hospital only weeks before her tax case heads to the Supreme Court. In both instances, more attention is given to her vast fortune in the press.

Other people and subjects include: Nanaline Duke, James “Buck” Duke, Walker Inman, E.T. Stotesbury, Eva Stotesbury, James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Mdivani brothers (Serge Mdivani), tonsillectomy, President Franklin Roosevelt - FDR, New Deal, Chief Justice Hughes, George Allen, William Perkins, Uncle Sam, tax commissioner, Bureau of Internal Revenue – Internal Revenue Service – IRS, Supreme Court, Board of Tax Appeals, Third Circuit Court of Tax Appeals, levy, tax exile, tax evader, first richest list, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Vincent Astor, public fascination with millionaires, robber barons, breeder bureaucracy, trusts, Duke Foundation, Sixteenth Amendment, Revenue Act of 1924, tariffs, sales tax, Gilded Age, Prohibition, World War I, World War II, St. Luke’s Hospital, President Donald Trump, Ferdinand Pecora, Wall Street investigation, J.P. Morgan Jr. Al Capone, biographies, missing information, uncovering new details, story restructure, empathy, Los Angeles fires, empathy, Heraclitus, tax audit, divorce, cancer, home loss, trauma, anger, phishing scam, Matt Taibibi, rich people problems, problems, Hurricane Helene, Carolinas, envy, bitterness, poison,…

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Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 1 Music: Temptation Rag by Harry Roy, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Section 2 Music: Ain’t She Sweet by Piccadilly Revels Band, Album Charleston – Great Stars Of the 20s
Section 3 Music: Swingin’ The Blues by Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Album Perfect Blues
End Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands

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