181. Dunne's Redemption in Los Angeles

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we take Dominick Dunne through many decades of his turbulent career, and get our man Nick redeemed in the Hollywood scene in the mid-1990s. Dunne knew the Bloomingdales and the Reagans socially back in his Hollywood halcyon days in the 1960s, but was most certainly booted out of their circle by his 1970s downfall.

With the publication of his 1984 coverage on the murder of Vicki Morgan, and his subsequent roman a clef An Inconvenient Woman, many folks would not have anticipated that Dunne would get back into the good graces of the West Coast Queens, Betsy Bloomingdale and Nancy Reagan. Dunne does that, and so much more.

Included in this episode are so many familiar characters from our ongoing investigation, and a few new characters too, including Jerry Zipkin, Heidi Fleiss, Alfredo de la Vega, Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson and his chimpanzee 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.
0:08.1	Thank you for joining me today as we connect so many things, so many people into our investigation.
0:15.8	Last week, we did talk about Dominic Dunn's 1984 coverage of the woman who knew too little the murder of
0:23.3	Vicky Morgan, Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress. Vicki Morgan's through line is only one part of that story.
0:32.3	Back many, many moons before that 1984 article, Dominic Dunn and his wife Lenny were living the high life in LA.
0:41.5	We know Nick was booted out of that high life, kind of went down and out, but did have a redemption
0:48.5	song in 1994, 1995 through the O.J. Simpson trial. Today, we're going to break down how that all happens,
0:59.2	where Nick came from, where he went to, where he got to, and the players and the people in between.
1:06.8	This episode is quite a voyage before we take off. I do want to give some big thanks and praise to our newest supporters over at patreon.com
1:16.0	slash done and done. Big thanks to all y'all, Connie, Tanya M, Jennifer B, Kristen C, Jana P, Jana P, Christina G, y'all are amazing. Thank you for your support over on Patreon. I can't tell you how
1:32.4	grateful I am to have you in that amazing community. Big shout out and thanks to all sustaining supporters
1:38.5	as well. Last week we did a part one of Betsy Bloomingdale there's another part two coming up this week on
1:45.1	not done yet in addition to a surprise story from one of our characters we're going to mention this
1:51.2	week thank you one and all and thank you for coming to listen today we are going to be going from
1:58.2	California in the 1960s all the way to 2004 to Ronald Reagan's
2:06.0	funeral in this episode. Our man Nick is there for it all. Let's investigate.
2:12.6	Music Oh, what a journey this week is going to be.
2:33.2	Last week we did take a very singular look at the case of Vicki Morgan, Marvin Pankost, found guilty for her murder, the Bloomingdale connection to all of that.
2:46.6	One very limited year, 1984, and Dominic Dunn's reporting on that.
2:52.1	We're going to open this episode by using Dominic Dunn himself from The Way We Lived Then.
2:59.1	He is going to have a little bit to say about the Bloomingdale's and the Regans from his first round in Hollywood.
3:08.3	The way we lived then, recollections of a well-known name dropper, was published in 1999.
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