124. The Heiress Tour | Three Astor Ladies: Ava, Madeline, and Brooke
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week in our Heiress Tour, we are taking one out of the Patreon Vault. In this NDY, we explore the important women in the life of William Vincent Astor. First up is the story of his mother, Lady Ava Ribbesdale, who gets the Lady title in her second marriage. Next up, is Madeline Talmadge Force, teenage bride and new step-mother to Vinnie. Last, we connect in Brooke Astor, Vinnie's third wife, helpfully arranged by Minnie Cushing, his second wife. This one is loaded with spiderwebs and some sleuthing from Dominick Dunne too!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me today as we pull one out of the Patreon Vault from all the way back in the month of May for this week's episode, we're going to be connecting |
| 0:21.9 | quite a few notable ladies within the High Society and ERIS world. |
| 0:27.9 | Today within our ERIS tour, it is time to talk about some notable Astor women, three of them, |
| 0:34.2 | in fact, connected all to William Vincent Astor. |
| 0:39.1 | We investigate William's mother, Ava Lowell, Willing, his stepmother, Madeline Talmadge, and |
| 0:47.0 | William Vincent Astor's third wife as well, Brooke Astor. |
| 0:51.9 | Before we start this episode, I do have a spyglass here to give some huge thanks and praise |
| 0:57.5 | to our latest supporters at patreon.com slash done and done. |
| 1:02.5 | Big, big love, holy cats, thanks to you, Karen A and Stephanie D. |
| 1:08.4 | Really grateful to you both and all of the investigators over there showing a little |
| 1:13.3 | love to done and done. For a few bucks a month, you'll get early and ad-free episodes and |
| 1:18.8 | not done yet episodes too. Investigators, this is one of those today for this week's episode, |
| 1:26.4 | not done yet, straight out of Patreon, |
| 1:29.5 | a little bit loose and more informal. |
| 1:32.3 | It's where I talk about everything that doesn't seem to fit in the main episode of the week |
| 1:36.7 | or included Spiderwebs attached to that main episode of the week. |
| 1:42.8 | This Not Done Yet was all the way back in May, not done yet |
| 1:47.0 | 44. We're on not done yet 57. This week we're coming with part two of Anna and Delphine Dodge, |
| 1:55.4 | all kinds of good stuff. Within this episode, our Astor women, these three heiresses, our high society ladies, connect a whole lot of high society, royal connections, trashy divorces, and hot scandal too. |
| 2:13.2 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 2:14.7 | Let's investigate. |
| 2:32.2 | Okay. I hope you enjoy it. Let's investigate. Hey, hey, hey, investigators, it's Alicia here and I am not done yet talking about William Vincent Astor, old Vinnie. |
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