268. Dunne Profiles | Elizabeth Taylor

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In our continuing “Elizabeth Taylor Takeover” this week, we remember that time that Dominick Dunne profiled Elizabeth Taylor in 1985 for Vanity Fair. At this time in her life, Elizabeth Taylor was back on top after battling addiction as well as doing extraordinary work bringing attention to AIDS and fundraising to fight the disease. Our man Nick is namedropping like normal in this one, but he is allowed to – the pair are old friends, after all. Sources ⁠⁠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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0:31.5	done i'm alicia your hostess on this podcast journey all thingsic Dunn and his bespeckled universe.
0:41.2	Our man, Nick, really does bring it together.
0:43.9	Thank you for joining me today for this very special episode.
0:47.1	It is an Elizabeth Taylor takeover week on my podcasts.
0:53.1	And how could I not talk about that time that Dominic Dunn profiled
0:58.5	Elizabeth Taylor for Vanity Fair. This event happened so early in his third act writing career. Remember,
1:08.7	his very first piece for Vanity Fair Justice was published March of
1:13.8	1984. This particular profile of Elizabeth Taylor is published December 1985. Dominic Dunn is at this point
1:25.3	in his own life, really shaping up his third act finding all kinds of
1:30.2	interesting profiles going to his friends candy spelling Elizabeth Taylor Ava Gardner people he knows
1:40.9	to supplement that writing as he is getting his footing in his new magazine journalistic career.
1:50.2	Of course, in this mix early on, it is naturally going to be Elizabeth Taylor, the queen herself.
1:59.2	Our man Nick and Elizabeth Taylor go way back, and you know our favorite
2:04.7	name dropper is going to tell us all about it. The particular bit I love about this piece of
2:12.1	Dominic Dunn's writing, it is such a snapshot of a moment in time.
2:24.5	He is early in his writing days, and Elizabeth Taylor here in 1985 is triumphant.
2:31.1	She has come through a lot, but wow, she has so much more ahead of her.
2:38.4	Dominic's writing at this moment does paint quite a picture. You can really visualize and see this day as it is happening and holy cats, the spider webs are off the charts. I'm going to
2:47.2	lead us into this episode with the subhead from Dominic Dunn's piece titled
2:52.5	The Red Queen, published again December 1985 Vanity Fair.
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