Done & Dunne

This week, we conclude our journey into Dominick Dunne’s time in Paris for the January 1998 couture shows. So many more shows, including the collections of Alexander McQueen, Thierry Mugler, and Karl Lagerfeld. There is a Princess Diana moment, and a few international and political drops too, including Dunne’s rapprochement with Adnan Khashoggi and the brewing Clinton scandal in Washington D.C., which is beginning at the time to get some press.

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In our continuing journey from the land of haute couture in Paris in January of 1998, Dominick Dunne will continue his walk down the runway. Luckily for us, we have a whole of threads to pull together this week.

Take out your index cards, investigators! We are spilling the details on so many characters in this one, including the well married The Miller Sisters, Ellin Saltzman, Alfred Taubmann, Jayne Wrightsman, Coco Chanel, Nan Kempner, Andre Leon Talley, Ira von Fürstenberg, and Isabella Blow too. There is really no end to the world our man Nick discovers and reveals to us.

Darlings, stay tuned for the Coco Chanel and Ellin Saltzman NDY episodes in short order, and more Wallis too – it is all so connected!

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Fashionista investigators, this one is for you! In a little break from true crime, Dominick Dunne travels to Paris for the January 1998 couture collections, and what a time he had! In this mix of high fashion and celebrity, our man Nick is catching on quickly in this world, and revealing all the inside scoop. From the beginnings of couture to its Paris history, from one show and event to another, it is quite a debut week for Dominick.

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In this week’s conclusion of Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Cuevas de Larrain’s story, we examine her life from the early 1960s on, including more ballet, a much younger husband, and ultimately, the battle over her estate.

Also included, the defection of Rudolf Nureyev from the Soviet Union, the murder of Jan de Vroom, and so many recurring characters within our universe of Nick.

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In this next installment of Dominick Dunne’s reporting on Margeret Rockefeller Strong, we investigate her first husband, George de Cuevas. George was a real fan of the ballet, which his wife lovingly supported through his lifetime, and even a little after his death. 

George did enjoy a theatrical and artistic lifestyle, including delicate duels as well as hosting the Party of the Century in 1953 in Biarritz. He also enjoyed bringing a host of other artistic men around his wife, including Raymundo de Larrain and Jan de Vroom, whose stories are set up in this episode, coming back in full swing in next week’s conclusion. 

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The Gabor sisters were some of the most iconic cultural figures in the second half of the 20th century, having arrived on our shores from Nazi-occupied Hungary, where they experienced loss and engaged in heroic resistance. Along with their mother, Jolie, sisters Eva, Zsa Zsa, and Magda, stormed the mid-century zeitgeist and lived through extremely complicated family dynamics, as well as complicated romantic entanglements - including, between them all - 23 marriages, 18 divorces, two widowhoods, and two annulments. They were allies and rivals, poly-linguists, artisans, and entrepreneurs. But mostly, they were women possessed of a drive to succeed and an eternal willingness to bend their stories to suit the moment at hand.

This month, Trashy Divorces is proud to present the lives and loves of The Glamorous Gabors, an eight-episode arc bringing these four amazing women into focus in the 21st century. Listen online or wherever you get your podcasts!

The Glamorous Gabors was researched and written by Melanie Shawn, with our deep gratitude.

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In this episode, we meet Margaret Strong, granddaughter of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller. Dominick Dunne covered her life and times in detail as well as the courtroom battle over her estate in 1987. Margaret is not the only character coming into this epic tale. This Rockefeller heiress had a penchant for effete men – both marrying and supporting them in their dance endeavors too. 

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In this extended encore episode, we revisit The Two Mrs. Grenvilles arc to explore both the fact and fiction 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. The real account is so much more sordid. 

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This week, we wrap up the nasty feud of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dominick Dunne. All through 2003, these two have been tossing around all the words. What happens in August of 2003, and what is the ultimate conclusion to this sordid tale? How much justice was served anyway?

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We move into summer of 2003, and now Dunne and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are just letting their battle take over the press. In this bonus episode, we visit the New York Magazine essay that everyone was talking about it. The feud between Nick and Bobby is most certainly underway, but Dunne is going to find himself in some additional legal perils. 

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