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Done & Dunne

188. In Other News | Summer 1993

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7629 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode this week, Dominick Dunne is coming in hot with all the other Hollywood news happening during the summer of 1993 throughout the first Menendez trial.

Players in this first half of this episode include the initial arrest of Heidi Fleiss, the death of Joyce Haber, and the resurgence of the Château Marmont.

In the second half, we turn our attention to L.A.’s hottest new restaurant Locanda Veneta, the bad manners of Michael Eisner, the French Rivera jewel heist of Marvin and Barbara Davis, the beginning of the criminal investigations of Michael Jackson, Tina Sinatra’s stalking trouble from her ex-boyfriend James Farentino, and a little Robert Evans too.

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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

com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.uk slash wondering.

0:11.6

Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

0:19.2

Thank you for joining me today as we cover some of the other Hollywood

0:23.3

news happening during the time of the first Menendez trial. Dominic Dunn was in Los Angeles through the

0:30.6

summer of 1993 and you know that he is into so many other stories than what's happening in the courtroom. And in his

0:40.1

courtroom notebook piece from October 1993, our man Nick tells all. It is an October

0:47.5

surprise in the best of ways friends this week. In our little bonus here, it is time to talk about all of that other dish.

0:56.6

What is happening at this time in other news? Let's investigate. Oh, our man Dominic, reconnecting into Hollywood, he is going to get way more than just the courtroom drama.

1:27.3

Dominic done in his time reporting

1:30.0

for every case that it seems he does throughout the 1990s in Hollywood, all of his reporting

1:36.2

has attached threads. It's not just the case he's covering that he will write about. It is the

1:42.6

scene entirely that he is reporting on, and nothing happens in a vacuum.

1:49.7

Here in the summer of 1993, so much is going on during the first Menendez trial, but there's a whole lot of

1:57.1

other things happening. In this episode, we got some scooped up bits from our man, Nick,

2:02.1

that are all connected into our investigation, past and present. Again, we are taking these

2:08.9

from the piece we are covering right now, Dominic Dunn's courtroom notebook from October

2:15.0

1993 from Vanity Fair. Quite a number of items to discuss.

2:20.9

Item number one, Heidi Fleiss. Y'all, this is 1993, a whole two years before the lunch

2:28.2

that Heidi Fleiss and Dominic Dunn have with Nancy Reagan and Betsy Bloomingdale during the O.J. Simpson trial.

2:35.9

We talked about that a few weeks ago. Let's go back in time to June of 1993.

2:41.8

Dominic Dunn writes. In restaurants and it parties all over this town, the only topic that is being

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