267. The Trashy Spiderwebs of Elizabeth Taylor

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Alicia's taking over all the podcasts this week, with the stories and spiderwebs of screen goddess Elizabeth Taylor. In this week's musically-themed episode, Alicia breaks down some of the lyrics in Taylor Swift's new track, Elizabeth Taylor, from her album The Life of a Showgirl. From Portofino to the very best table at Musso & Frank's, certain themes resonate across these two titanic figures in American pop culture - and leave our podcasts absolutely covered in spiderwebs. 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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0:50.4	Hey, everybody. Stacey here. I am joining Alicia today. All treats, no tricks. Oh, you got that
0:57.1	right. Okay. I did. You were saying it wrong last night. I was like, I don't, I don't think it's
1:00.9	supposed to be that way, Alicia. Y'all, I'm so excited about today. Stacey's asked me a bunch of
1:06.0	questions like, you're doing what exactly? You're ready for the what exactly is happening around this place
1:12.4	today? Yeah. Welcome to you. Trashy divorces, trashy royals, done and done and swiftry,
1:19.8	and a first time ever all four podcast takeover. What could bring us together?
1:28.3	I mean, I know.
1:33.1	For this celebration of trashy joy?
1:34.8	Elizabeth Taylor.
1:35.6	Yeah, it makes sense.
1:38.4	The only one who could bring it all together for... Bridges, all those divides.
1:39.8	100% for my trashy divorces, trash pandas.
1:43.4	Elizabeth Taylor, so many loves, so many divorces.
1:46.4	So much old Hollywood.
1:47.6	She's sort of the patron saint goddess around trashy divorces.
1:53.5	For my Dunn and Dunn investigators.
1:56.8	Elizabeth Taylor and my main man, Dominic Dunn, were good friends.
2:00.4	He wrote about her in fictional form under a character named Faye Converse.
2:05.2	He profiled her as well for Vanity Fair.
2:08.2	He directed his very last movie in Hollywood starred Elizabeth Taylor.
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