250. Touring Bellevue Avenue | Clarendon Court

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We continue our tour of Bellevue Avenue in Newport today, focusing specifically on one grand home, Clarendon Court. This home and property had a whole lot of history before Sunny and Klaus von Bulow moved into it in the early 1970s. In this episode, we dig into Edward Collins Knight Sr. and his son, the neighboring property Reef Point, Harry S. Black, Masie Caldwell, and William Heyward too. Also, a few cinema tie-ins as well, and discovering the real Tracy Lord. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.
0:07.5	Thank you for joining me today as we continue our tour of Bellevue Avenue. If you are a long time
0:14.8	investigator and right now you're thinking, wait a minute, I've heard about Clarendon Court before.
0:20.7	Yes, you have. Today it is an
0:23.2	encore presentation of Clarendon Court, the whole history of this magnificent home that
0:30.2	originally came your way in episode 132. Y'all, we're 100 episodes beyond that here on the main feed, but a few things here.
0:40.0	It is a nice refresher, even if you've heard it before. Thus, spiderwebs mean even more now.
0:47.9	If you are new to done and done, welcome and holy cats, buckle up for this ride in Newport.
0:54.9	As mentioned, Clarendon Court is our featured home today, the one-time home of Sunny and
1:01.3	Klaus von Buello, and as a quick programming note here, we have covered all of our
1:07.4	man Dominic Dunn's reporting on the Von Bue case, beginning back episode 1.30 on the main feed.
1:15.0	Our man Nick was there for it all and we are better for it.
1:18.9	Check those out from the Wayback Machine if you are looking for that true crime saga in detail.
1:25.6	Today we're keeping it to the real estate and to the story of this legendary
1:29.8	home in Newport. This encore today is presented simply to get you in the map of Bellevue Avenue
1:39.0	and keep us following a certain direction down Bellevue. Again, worth a rewind here.
1:46.1	In this episode, we have Edward Collins Knight, Senior, and Junior,
1:51.2	the inclusion of Clarendon Courts' neighboring property Reef Point,
1:56.5	once owned by the Isnaga family.
1:59.4	We have the whole story of Harry S. Black, as well as a deep dive on Maisie Caldwell,
2:05.1	who traded a whole house to Pierre Cartier for a strand of pearls.
2:11.2	Maisie's home is still Cartier's flagship store in New York City.
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