292. Elizabeth Taylor | Dunne's Lost Book Introduction

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There was a moment when Dominick Dunne was asked to write an introduction for Elizabeth Taylor's 2002 book about all of her famous jewels. Turns out, Our Man Nick's words didn't make the cut for the release, but we have them in today's episode. From May of 2007, in a special feature from Vanity Fair, Dunne gives a little insight into his multi-decade friendship with Elizabeth Taylor including trashy tidbits about his last film Ash Wednesday, Richard Burton, Robert Evans, Michael Jackson, and jewelry. You know Elizabeth loves her jewelry. 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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0:33.5	Welcome to Dunn and Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.
0:40.4	Thank you for joining me today is we're going to have a little bit of fun with Elizabeth Taylor,
0:45.0	taking a little bit of a detour, but who doesn't love spending time with Elizabeth Taylor?
0:50.2	I got a little bit of a hot drop. You know our man, Dominic Dunn and Elizabeth Taylor were friends for
0:54.9	a very long time. He profiled her for Vanity Fair very early in his career in a piece called
1:01.8	The Red Queen. We have talked about that. I came across something a little bit special today
1:07.1	that we're going to put in. It is with the passing of Elizabeth Taylor
1:11.1	15 years ago
1:12.9	just last week that I wanted to bring this one up
1:16.0	and let's celebrate a little bit of Elizabeth Taylor,
1:19.6	a little bit of our band Nick
1:21.1	and their glorious friendship.
1:23.4	Let's investigate.
1:24.5	Music Let's investigate.
1:43.6	Oh boy, y'all, investigators, we're going to have some fun today. This piece from Vanity Fair entitled The Queen and I was originally published in May 2007. It's a little bit of a tricky story, though. Dominic Dunn opens this piece by giving you the background of what this little column is. Our man, Nick explains.
2:03.0	Recently, while going through an old file cabinet, I came across the introduction to a coffee
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