An exploration of all things Dominick Dunne, who spent his writing life at the intersection of high society and true crime.
In Part Seven of the Aristotle Onassis and His Lovely Ladies series, we open with the Bouvier Sisters, Jacqueline Kennedy and Lee Radziwill, taking a little R&R on Onassis’s yacht, the Christina. What was a quiet trip turns into mayhem, scandal, and controversy for the sisters, their husbands, their lovers, and their family too.
How do we get from this getaway girls’ trip to the engagement of Jackie and Ari just a few years later? This episode gives you all the details, with some surprising spiderwebs too.
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This week, in the sixth in our series of Aristotle Onassis and His Lovely Ladies, the ladies are plentiful. Maria Callas is full in love with her Aristo, but she is not the only lady in Aristotle’s life. He does frequent brothels and will begin an affair with Princess Lee Radziwill – both enrage Maria. Also included, so many spiderwebs – Prince Rainer, Richard Burton, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, and Elsa Maxwell all make an appearance. But no one comes faster at Onassis than Lee’s sister, The First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy.
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In this episode of Done and Dunne, we return to Dominick Dunne’s reporting around the first trial and Lyle and Erik Menendez, resulting in two hung juries.
What is the defense portion of this case? What is the other drama inside the courtroom, from the family to the media to the observers?
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A deeply personal tragedy, and a horrific crime, accelerates Dominick’s transition into a warrior for justice. In a combination of previous episodes from our podcast investigation, we meet Dominique Dunne, the beloved California child of Nick and Lenny, whose murder at the hands of her ex-boyfriend in 1982 was chronicled for Vanity Fair in her grieving father’s own words.
We have certain underlying assumptions about how the criminal justice works, and how the courtroom will treat the grieving family of a murder victim. Nick sure did, until it was his family gathered in a Los Angeles courthouse, watching a grave miscarriage of justice play out as the man who murdered his daughter Dominique stood trial.
It was a wrenching crime followed by an appalling miscarriage of justice, chronicled by none other than the grieving father of the victim. Alicia takes us through the trial of the man who strangled Dominique Dunne to death, presided over by a self-serving judge with a soft spot for the defense team, with a verdict rendered by a jury which was not allowed to hear key evidence as it debated lesser charges than the prosecution wanted.
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Sources
Dominick Dunne: After The Party (Documentary, Amazon link)
Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of His Daughter’s Killer, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com)
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This week, we jump tracks ever so slightly to focus on another infamous crime in Beverly Hills. The Menendez boys are learning by watching the early 1980’s poster boy of crime, Joe Hunt, and his BBC. The Billionaire Boys Club, a nickname that became its moniker, might have started out with all the best intentions, but soon turns into a crime spree that will set the tone for so much to come.
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This week, we continue our investigation into Dominick Dunne’s real-time reporting from the summer of 1993 from the first murder trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez. Testimony is given by many characters at this time, including the friends and family of the accused, as well as Dr. Oziel and the fishing charter Captain too. Also included are some epic showdowns with the attorneys, and the surprising influence of another infamous crime in California from the 1980s, the Billionaire Boys Club.
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In this bonus episode this week, Dominick Dunne is coming in hot with all the other Hollywood news happening during the summer of 1993 throughout the first Menendez trial.
Players in this first half of this episode include the initial arrest of Heidi Fleiss, the death of Joyce Haber, and the resurgence of the Château Marmont.
In the second half, we turn our attention to L.A.’s hottest new restaurant Locanda Veneta, the bad manners of Michael Eisner, the French Rivera jewel heist of Marvin and Barbara Davis, the beginning of the criminal investigations of Michael Jackson, Tina Sinatra’s stalking trouble from her ex-boyfriend James Farentino, and a little Robert Evans too.
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This week, we continue Dominick Dunne’s reporting into the Menendez case, with his coverage from the first trial of Lyle and Erik Menendez, from the summer of 1993. Dunne casts a dramatic lens on the players involved, and exactly how much the story has shifted from the August 1989 double murder of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.
In this episode, we catch up on the main characters in this courtroom drama, including the brothers, the judge, Leslie Abramson, and the cast of lawyers, both prosecuting and defending. Dunne does not miss a trick in this investigation and reveals so many of his own feelings as this case has progressed through the judicial system.
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This week, we continue our investigation into the murders of Kitty and Jose Menendez, from “Nightmare on Elm Drive”, Dominick Dunne’s original coverage from October 1990, setting the baseline of the facts of the case, right from the early days.
The week, we learn how the shady therapist, his secret mistress and the best friend – not even working together - end up bringing Lyle and Erik Menendez to account for the murder of their parents. We also introduce Leslie Abramson and get some news from the California Court of Appeals.
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This week, we open a whole new investigation into the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez, at the hands on their sons, Lyle and Erik. The grisly crime committed in Beverly Hills on August 20, 1989, was extensively covered by Dominick Dunne, over the course of a number of years. In this episode, we begin at the very start, by exploring Dunne’s initial coverage from October 1990. His “Nightmare on Elm Drive” is an excellent baseline for the case, still in early days, before the years make the details far murkier.
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We are still all aboard this journey with Dominick Dunne to the 60th birthday party of 3rd Lord Glenconner, Colin Tennant, with all the family. In this second part, we meet up with Princess Margaret, Raquel Welch, and a few other folks with some strong opinions when the American boat sallies up next to the Wind Star.
Once the journey is over, there are a few more threads to pull with the fates and legacies of Lord Colin and Princess Margaret. It really all does come back around.
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