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Done & Dunne

17: Candy Spelling, Part One

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7628 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alicia invited her Trashy Divorces co-host Stacie to join as they attempt to work through Dominick's August 1984 Vanity Fair piece Candy's Dynasty, about the extravagant lifestyle of Candy and Aaron Spelling. It's a Leo Season special!

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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.ukesl-wondery. Welcome to Done and Done.

0:29.2

I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

0:34.8

It's a really exciting day, y'all.

0:36.8

I have a special guest star today.

0:39.1

Stacey, my wonderful co-hosts from Trashy Divorces. Hello. Hello. Hello, Dunn and

0:45.3

ners. Some are you a trashy divorceeers, too? Sure. There's some overlap, certainly. But anyway,

0:52.3

hello. You took a spin this week in the fabulous 1980s and

0:55.9

1990s with your story on Heather Locklear, who had a deeply significant partnership with producer

1:04.6

Aaron Spelling through the first two decades of her career. And it's my birthday week.

1:10.0

It is that.

1:21.6

And you delightfully agreed to come on and be with me to talk about the fabulous candy spelling wife of Aaron Spelling for this week's episode on Done and Done.

1:23.5

Force behind the man, perhaps.

1:28.4

When we talk about power behind the man, like Aaron's spelling did a lot.

1:39.2

Mogul dies in June 2006 with $600 million from his media empire.

1:41.3

Did he ever launch himself into space?

1:45.8

Not that Dominic Dunn covered.

1:55.4

So this week, we're going to use a piece that is from August 1984, published in Vanity Fair,

1:58.3

called Candy's Dynasty.

2:02.7

This is one of Dominic's first pieces for Vanity Fair.

2:08.6

He had just started writing for them and reconnects with his friend Candy Spelling and we'll hear about it in the telling of this, but oh, just, there's so much more.

2:13.7

I would like to note that Aaron and Candy Spelling were married from 1968 until his death in 2006, truly remarkable for Hollywood.

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