This week on Done and Dunne, we are going to scoot through the 1890s from the Astor side of things, including warring cousins and their hotel legacy, the end of…
Category: Episodes
24. The Social Network: The Knickerbocker Queen | Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
This week, we take a turn in a whole new direction by wandering through high society in 19th century New York City. The Knickerbockers had their own peculiar ways, and…
23. The Amazing Life and Curious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen
In this edition of A New York State of Crime, Alicia illuminates a Dominick-adjacent story, that of the mysterious 1965 death of crime reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. Was her death an…
22. Cafe Society Scandal: The Murder of Patricia Burton Lonergan
Today, Alicia takes us back to wartime New York, for the scandal that rocked 1940s cafe society. Our man Nick described the case this way in his July 2000 Vanity…
21: Deadly Divorce | The Murder of Ted Ammon
Welcome to Season 2: A New York State of Crime! Today, Alicia has the story of the lethal love triangle, and gruesome murder, that sent shockwaves from Long Island to…
New Season Starts Nov. 1: A New York State of Crime!
Dearest Investigators: As promised, a brand new season of Done and Dunne is headed your way starting Monday, November 1! Featuring a sordid cast of high society figures, the new…
Our Man Dominick
Remembering Dunne on the anniversary of his death, August 26, 2009, at the age of 83. Alicia shares Michael Hogan’s Vanity Fair remembrance from November 2009. Catch up on Done…
Mary Pinchot Meyer
Alicia springboards off a paragraph in Dominick Dunne’s 1991 Vanity Fair article “Damage” to walk us through the mysterious murder of American painter and socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer. Was it…
Candy Spelling, Part Two
In the second part of this week’s Done and Dunne, Alicia continues through Dominck’s 1984 exploration of the life of Candy Spelling – There are trains! There are tour buses!…
Candy Spelling, Part One
This week, Alicia invited her Trashy Divorces co-host Stacie to join as they attempt to work through Dominick’s August 1984 Vanity Fair piece Candy’s Dynasty, about the extravagant lifestyle of…