Hey, everybody and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.

My name is Stacey. And I'm Alicia. Thanks for joining us today for this week's tale of Marital Misadventure

with a done and done crossover twist. Oh, look at that. Our story today could have gone into either one of my podcast

loves and I'm not sure if y'all know this, but it's my birthday week, so I figured why not both?

A present for my trash pandas and a present for my investigators too. You are really leaning

into this August thing. Oh, August slips away like a moment in time.

This week, I have the tale of Mona von Bismarck, the Kentucky Countess. So famous, so fashionable, so trashy.

Truman Capote writes about her in Ramona Clayform and his scandalous answered prayers in the chapter called Kate McLeod. She's one of his swans kind of. But Mona was so much more than that. She was married five times. Three times a widow, twice divorced. Her whole life is pretty incredible.

Legendary fashion designer, Yvonne Shee wrote about Mona. Her life is worthy of a novel

with all things beautiful. If you've never heard about Mona von Bismarck, I guarantee you're

going to want to. Let's go,

go, go, and let's investigate. Sounds good.

Hello. Holy cats, my two podcast universes have collided.

Welcome to the Trashy Divorces, done-and-done crossover.

Again, tricky because this one really does line up with both universes.

However, I love having you Stacey here as an audience because I'm ready for your jaw to drop a few times in this story.

Looking forward to it.

It's time for Mona, the Kentucky Countess. What a trashy high society, high fashion whirlwind of a ride this is going to be.

Mona, really humble birth on a horse farm in Kentucky.

Again, she's going to have five marriages, three times a widow, twice divorced.

And Mona is totally the reason for the best dressed list, essentially.

Okay.

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