280. Jacqueline de Ribes | Remembering The Queen of Paris

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this last episode of 2025, we honor and celebrate the life of Jacqueline de Ribes, French aristocrat, designer, fashion icon, businesswoman, film producer and philanthropist, who passed away just yesterday at the age of 96. This extraordinary woman was always getting name-checked by Dominick Dunne, and with her life and its many spiderwebs, it is easy to see why. 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 & Dunn. I am Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.
0:07.3	Thank you for joining me today for a little bit of a tribute episode.
0:12.5	2025 has been, well, a year, a year that I am happy to leave in the rearview mirror, to be frank, 2025 kick rocks. I was hoping we could make it
0:24.6	through, you know, this last day of the year. I'm recording this December 31st, 2025, just this last day,
0:32.7	with no more news, no more sadness, but in late breaking events last night, December 30th, 2025, Jacqueline
0:40.9	D'Rebe passed away at the age of 96. What a life, what a legend, and here today on Dun &
0:49.3	we are going to remember her as our last business of 2025.
0:56.0	Back in the Paris when it sizzles episodes, as well as the Margaret Strong,
1:02.6	Ramundo de Lorraine episodes with the ballet. Holy Cats.
1:07.9	Dominic Dunn has name-checked Jacqueline DeRib a whole bunch. And her story was an actual two-part
1:15.7	episode on patreon.com slash done and done. It was a two-part not done yet all the way back in March of
1:23.2	this year. I have pulled these episodes out of the vault for you today and on to the main feed to
1:30.3	honor the life and times and all the spider webs of this extraordinary woman. This episode will appeal
1:37.9	to my high society folks, my fashionistas and my ballet lovers too. Along the way, y'all, Jacqueline De Reeb, we have
1:48.1	a lonely and war-torn childhood, a marriage, woo, some Abiza, her own fashion line, a Legion
1:55.9	of Honor Award, and more spider webs than you can shake a stick at. So much history, so many stories. We've
2:04.9	into the life of Jacqueline Derebe and I am here for it. Today on this last day of 2025, we
2:12.0	remember this legendary lady. Let's investigate.
2:32.9	Okay. legendary lady. Let's investigate. Hey, hey, hey, investigators, it is Alicia. Welcome to Not Done Yet. This week, I was not done yet talking about Jacqueline DeRib. We are going to talk about Jacqueline DeRib more in next week's story. Jacqueline DeRibb, Domin Dunn, loves to talk about. Number one, let's just
2:53.9	set that straight away. Number two, Jacqueline DeRib is the guy that gets Ramundo de Lorraine, Margaret
3:03.1	Rockefeller Strong's second husband to Margaret.
3:11.8	Jacqueline's the one that sort of launches him into society.
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