Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

An exploration of all things Dominick Dunne, who spent his writing life at the intersection of high society and true crime.

  • 52 minutes 47 seconds
    236. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Edward’s Early Loves


    In this week’s exciting episode of our Wallis, Duchess of Windsor series, we change the focus to the Prince of Wales. With a complicated childhood without a whole lot of family love, you can see how it would be easy for David to be swayed by romance. He does this romance dance quite a lot – sometimes with suitable girls, sometimes not. In this episode, we will explore a few of David’s first loves, including Marion Coke, Lady Sybil Cadogan, Marguerite Alibert, and Rosemary Leveson-Gower. No gal is going to ever be good enough for David at this time, at least according to his royal family. Also, there is a little blackmail and murder thrown into the mix too.

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    25 June 2025, 4:00 am
  • 56 minutes 59 seconds
    235. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Becoming Mrs. Simpson

    Upon her return to the United States, Wallis will finally obtain her divorce from Win Spencer, and soon enough meet her next husband, Ernest Simpson. Slightly problematic, Ernest is married at the time, but who can stop true love? Wallis will seek and find happiness (finally) here, as a contented married lady and star hostess of London society.

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    23 June 2025, 4:00 am
  • 49 minutes 12 seconds
    234. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Her Lotus Year and The China Dossier

    Hold onto your conspiracy theories in this one, darlings!

    Wallis took a lot of heat for the year she spent in the Orient, her Lotus Year. Many folks pinned a whole lot of terrible deeds on Wallis this year, largely all untrue. Her year in China becomes the basis for the future China Dossier, which was supposed to dissuade the Prince of Wales from his married lover. That plan did not work out too well, and this year, Wallis truly steps into being the woman she is to become. Also, she will break with Win Spencer, for good.

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    19 June 2025, 4:00 am
  • 48 minutes 29 seconds
    233. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Becoming Mrs. Spencer

    In this second installment of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, we visit steamy Pensacola, Florida, and meet Wallis’s first husband, Earl Winfield “Win” Spencer, Jr. This flyboy will woo and wed Wallis, only for the relationship to reveal some very large red flags.

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    18 June 2025, 4:00 am
  • 56 minutes 34 seconds
    232. Wallis, Duchess of Windsor | Baby Bessie and Breaking Baltimore

    Welcome to a whole spider of a series - Wallis, Duchess of Windsor!

    We know her story, or we think we do. In this first episode, we meet Bessie Wallis Warfield, just a tiny girl making her way in the world surrounded by a whole lot of family drama, on both sides. Between her mother Alice and her uncle Sol, it is no wonder Wallis wants to break free to see a different world than the one she knows.

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    16 June 2025, 4:00 am
  • 45 minutes 36 seconds
    231. Coco Chanel | Fashion, Fragrance, and Fascism, Finale!


    In our conclusion of the life and times of Coco Chanel, we travel through the years 1936 to the end of her life in 1971, and a little beyond too. With the passing of time, more has come to light about Coco’s affair with a German spy, and her associated work with the Nazis through WW2. Surprisingly, there are no real consequences ultimately from this time, and after laying low for a while, Coco has a whole second act and comeback in the United States. She is a lady with a complicated life and a complicated legacy.

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    13 June 2025, 7:00 pm
  • 32 minutes 6 seconds
    230. Coco Chanel | Fashion, Fragrance, and Fascism, Part Two

    In this continuation of the life and times of Coco Chanel, we take the legendary designer through the Roaring 20s to the mid-1930s. This was an action packed time in her life, including even more expansion into a fragrance line, an entrée into London high society, a few high profile love affairs, two bad business deals, and a love nest in Scotland as well.

    Ride along for this decade plus in her life, possibly the best one as the shadows of war are creeping in for our finale, in which Coco will do a little bit more than dabble into Fascism.

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    12 June 2025, 9:00 pm
  • 38 minutes 14 seconds
    229. Coco Chanel | Fashion, Fragrance, and Fascism, Part One

    In a multi-drop week here on Done and Dunne, we begin our investigation into Coco Chanel, legendary fashion and fragrance designer, with a little fascism on the side. Her life was long and complicated. Today’s episode includes Coco’s story from childhood through the close of 1919, including tragedy, so many nuns, and the beginning of her fashion career. Also included are her first two powerful lovers, Etienne Balsan and Boy Capel, who really give this orphan a lift.

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    9 June 2025, 4:00 am
  • 25 minutes 3 seconds
    228. Yachts and Things | The Found Mystery Chapter of Answered Prayers

    In this surprise double drop episode, we rediscover a missing chapter of Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers. This missing chapter reveals a bit about the time Truman and Katharine Graham spent on a yacht touring the Greek islands, with all the spiderwebs and hashish included too.

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    2 June 2025, 4:05 am
  • 42 minutes 30 seconds
    227. And Audrey Wilder Sang....

    This week we go from one Audrey to another. In this episode, we get to know Audrey Wilder. Audrey was a tremendous lady – wife of legendary director Billy Wilder, Hollywood hostess, and bosom friend of our man Nick. Audrey also goes way back into our narrative lending her name to one of the mysterious missing chapters of Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers. With all the spiderwebs included that you like, it's time to bring Audrey Wilder into our main feed investigation!

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    2 June 2025, 4:00 am
  • 44 minutes 29 seconds
    226. Dunne Profiles | Audrey Hepburn

    In our continuation of love today for Audrey Hepburn, we discover the brilliant writing of Dunne from May of 1991 in Vanity Fair, and so much more about this remarkable lady.

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    26 May 2025, 4:02 am
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