04 Trashy Breakups: Hell On Heels | Barbara 'Bobo' Sears Rockefeller
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Alicia pulls a spiderweb she discovered on another of her podcasts, Done & Dunne, about perhaps the reigning champion of divorce, socialite Barbara 'Bobo' Sears Rockefeller. When Bobo died at 91 in 2008, the New York Sun remembered her with this headline: "Bobo Rockefeller, 91, Married Well, Divorced Better." An ex-wife of both a Sears and a Rockefeller, she was a prominent personality in the 1950s when she had both a well-publicized "Cinderella Wedding" to Standard Oil heir Winthrop Rockefeller, and a Divorce of the Century from him two years later.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.uk slash Wondery. |
| 0:24.1 | That's audible.com.com. Trashy Divorces. |
| 0:26.3 | Trashy Breakups Edition midweek. |
| 0:28.4 | My name is Stacey and Alicia. |
| 0:30.4 | You have a crossover. |
| 0:31.4 | I do. |
| 0:32.3 | I have a crossover. |
| 0:39.4 | This week, it's just a story that's too delightfully good not to share with everybody. It's a crossover with done and done. And honestly, it's normally pretty clear when I do all of my trashy investigations, |
| 0:45.4 | which side of the podcast fence the story needs to go to. But this one, holy cats. It has everything |
| 0:52.0 | for both. Happy bonus. Trashy donen Day. So within Done and Done in the last |
| 0:57.8 | few weeks, we have been looking at the fact and the fiction about the 195 death of Billy Woodward, |
| 1:04.9 | done by his wife, Anne. This is the shooting of the century. We've talked about Billy's mom, |
| 1:10.4 | Elsie Woodward, the Grand |
| 1:12.1 | Dom of New York Society. This is all within the sordid tale that becomes the basis for |
| 1:18.6 | Dominic Duns, Romana Clay, 1985 novel, The Two Mrs. Grenville's. Thank you to Sarah A. |
| 1:26.6 | Because Sarah A, in her reading of the book, asked me a question. |
| 1:31.2 | Who is the real life inspiration for this character? |
| 1:35.6 | So there's a character in the two Mrs. Grenvilles that's honestly the best character in the whole darn book. |
| 1:41.8 | In the book, her name is Babette Van Deegan. And she's a showgirl who's one of |
| 1:47.9 | Anne's early friends in the novel. And then Anne gets a little too high society for Babette. And Babette |
| 1:56.4 | in the story is the divorcee who is living with a capital L. She's doing great. She's making record |
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