256. Teardown in The Platinum Triangle

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For this holiday episode, we take a diversion from The Gilded Age in Newport to visit the Fabulous Late 1980s in Hollywood, specifically The Platinum Triangle, the area in Los Angeles that encompasses Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and Bel Air. Dominick Dunne’s writing is terrific here from the spring of 1989, coming back to California and revisiting his old stomping grounds, and dropping all the dish. At the time, there was big push at this time to tear down all the homes that existed to build more glorious houses. Attached into this one are so many names that fold into our investigation through time, including but not limited to: David Geffen, Merv Griffin, Eva Gabor, William and Edie Goetz, Candy and Aaron Spelling, Betsy Bloomingdale, and so many more. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Source ⁠⁠Fatal Charms and the Mansions of Limbo⁠⁠, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon link) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,
0:07.4	where everything really does connect in our universe at one point or another. Thank you for joining me
0:14.5	today for this Labor Day weekend as we leave Bellevue Avenue, Newport, and the East Coast to take a slight detour over to the West Coast to California, in fact, for this holiday weekend.
0:30.3	We have spent a lot of time talking about building projects in Newport, Rhode Island over the last weeks.
0:39.1	I thought it was high time to pull out a little of R. Man Nick's writing about another big building boom that happened
0:45.7	many years later in Hollywood, specifically through the Platinum Triangle. For our journey today,
0:53.2	it is too not done yet, number 106 from our Patreon
0:57.8	vault from August of last year. This was a whole bonus that connected into one of our
1:04.4	previous profiles from the main feed, which included Elaine Young. That was episode 176 here on the main feed.
1:14.6	Elaine Young, who after divorcing Gig Young, goes on to make a killing in real estate. Of course,
1:23.8	she was a big buddy of Dominic Dunn's back in the day.
1:27.8	But it is not only Elaine Young featured in this episode,
1:32.6	Dominic Dunn is really at his best,
1:35.4	being all kinds of gossipy about homes and people,
1:39.9	as well as the excess of Hollywood in the late 1980s 2.
1:46.0	This one seemed too fit for a little diversion on this holiday weekend.
1:50.4	We are going to connect in all kinds of faces and places into our investigation of this one
1:56.9	before returning to Newport in short order.
2:01.0	Hope everybody is enjoying a great Labor Day.
2:03.8	And now, from the vault, it is Teardown.
2:09.0	Let's investigate.
2:11.3	Music Hey, hey, hey, hey, investigators, Alicia here, and I am not done yet. Welcome to not done yet. Holy like one hundred and six can you believe it thank
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