220. Mr. Dunne Goes to Washington | Georgetown Gatherings, Lucianne Goldberg, and 1999’s State of the Union

Done & Dunne

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True Crime, History

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, we travel with Dominick Dunne fresh out of Paris in 1998 and into Washington DC in 1999. Our man Nick is still a bit out of his element inside the beltway, but he will get his bearings fairly quickly and thankfully tell us all about it. Dunne wrote about his time in January 1999 for Vanity Fair in a piece titled Mr. Dunne Goes to Washington, and it is revealing in many ways, even almost thirty years later into the future.

Dunne spills the details on his feelings about Bill and Hillary Clinton, the 1999 State of the Union, many a Georgetown party, and the end of his friendship with Lucianne Goldberg as well, which has Dunne having a front row seat into the scandal as it was developing real time. With connections into all kinds of past spiderwebs, this one is sure to please your investigative hearts.

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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.ukeslundery. Welcome to Dunn and Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where it all connects in our continuing investigation. Thank you for
0:24.4	joining me today for today's romp in Washington, D.C. with our man Nick. Oh my, if you thought his
0:33.3	romp in Paris with Ote Couture and fashion was a whirl. Wait until you hear about all the
0:40.1	future investigations. We have embedded in that story. We have a lot to dish about friends. One of those
0:47.7	super hot drops from Dunn in January 1998 was the breaking Bill Clinton behaving badly in the White House scandal.
0:58.0	It turns out, in the winter of the following year in 1999, Dominic Dunn did attend the impeachment
1:06.8	trial of Bill Clinton, and oh boy, does he tell us all about it? Not just that. There really is a
1:14.3	whole lot going on in Washington that Dominic Dunn reveals in this piece from May 1999, entitled
1:22.9	appropriately enough, Mr. Dunn goes to Washington. I cannot set you up any better than the actual subhead of this piece from Mr. Dunn goes to Washington.
1:36.0	Washington was not a city Dominic Dunn knew well, but in covering President Clinton's impeachment trial,
1:42.8	he stepped into a drama worthy of his own fiction.
1:48.3	From the end of his friendship with Lucian Goldberg, who in 1997 had told him the first stories about a White House intern.
1:59.8	Through a round of Georgetown dinner parties to the gallery of the
2:04.1	United States Senate, Dunn finds echoes of scandals past, Martha Moxley, William Kennedy Smith, O.J. Simpson
2:13.3	in the scandal that trumped them all, and finally loses his faith in the president he once idealized.
2:24.0	We're going to talk about it all, but before we begin today's Inside the Beltway and beyond investigation,
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