19: Mary Pinchot Meyer
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Alicia springboards off a paragraph in Dominick Dunne's 1991 Vanity Fair article "Damage" to walk us through the mysterious murder of American painter and socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer. Was it a CIA hit? Did Meyer know too much about the assassination of her longtime lover, JFK?
Sources:
DAMAGE | Vanity Fair | October 1991
Then And Now: Grey Gardens (YouTube link)
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace, by Peter Janney (Amazon link)
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer, by Nina Burleigh (Amazon link)
Parting the curtains at Grey Gardens (YouTube link)
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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 Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey, All Things Dominic Dunn. Today, I'm excited to welcome back into the studio. Stacey, my beloved and partner and co-host of |
| 0:43.3 | Trashy Divorces for a really good story today. Welcome. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello, Dunners. It's nice to talk to you again. |
| 0:49.9 | You had so much fun last week. You just wandered down the hall. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah, this one, I don't, I don't know if this one's appropriate for as many jokes, but we'll see. |
| 0:59.6 | Less jokes, but really good. |
| 1:01.4 | I know that you like the stories that intersect politics, and this is one of them. |
| 1:07.5 | So, y'all, I've been at work for a while on a different series about Palm Beach and the Kennedys and it's pretty far reaching, but I stumbled across one paragraph from an otherwise very long Vanity Fair piece of Dominic's. |
| 1:23.6 | This is from Damage that Dominic published in October of 1991, working on something totally different and came across this one paragraph and was like, yes, I can talk about one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century as well as her mysterious death, which I know you like less. |
| 1:45.8 | Who doesn't love a good mysterious death? |
| 1:48.6 | You'd love done and done save the true crime. |
| 1:50.8 | That's not really your thing, but it does involve politics and it is a long ago true crime. |
| 1:55.8 | And it is a mystery. |
| 1:56.9 | It is a mystery. |
| 1:57.6 | And there are lots of conspiracy theories that in this case may be more correct than the official version. |
| 2:04.6 | So Dominic did very little writing on this case. I didn't know he had done any. So I stumble across this paragraph. |
| 2:12.2 | His original piece is about Palm Beach and William Kennedy Smith and Ted Kennedy, and it does get into Martha |
| 2:19.2 | Moxley, there's just one paragraph, as the William Kennedy Smith trial is happening, that Dunn will |
| 2:25.4 | write, quote, two unresolved in long dormant murders, peripherally touching the family, or even |
| 2:33.2 | resuscitated. |
| 2:35.0 | The first was that of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a wealthy society beauty known to have introduced |
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