31. Hell On Heels | Barbara 'Bobo' Sears Rockefeller
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In a crossover episode from another of her podcasts, Trashy Divorces, Alicia presents the real-life person behind The Two Mrs. Grenvilles’ character of Babette Van Degan, socialite Barbara ‘Bobo’ Sears Rockefeller. When Bobo died at 91 in 2008, the New York Sun remembered her with this headline: “Bobo Rockefeller, 91, Married Well, Divorced Better.” An ex-wife of both a Sears and a Rockefeller, she was a prominent personality in the 1950s when she had both a well-publicized “Cinderella Wedding” to Standard Oil heir Winthrop Rockefeller, and a Divorce of the Century from him two years later.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.ukesl-wondery. Welcome to Done and Done. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, but |
| 0:35.4 | hopefully you know that, and instead are asking, |
| 0:39.0 | hey, Alicia, it's not Dunday. It's Wednesday, what gives? Today, investigators, I have a fun |
| 0:45.9 | little crossover bonus for you that answers the question laid out in the two Mrs. Grenville's |
| 0:53.7 | who is Babette Van Deegan? |
| 0:57.1 | And not necessarily a plot point for our most recent coverage of the Woodward case, but holy cats. |
| 1:05.1 | Babette is the character portrayal in fictional form of the real-life Barbara Sears Rockefeller, known affectionately as Bobo, |
| 1:15.8 | and it is the most amazing story you might not know. Big love to y'all. Hope you dig it. Stay curious, |
| 1:24.3 | keep on investigating. See you, Monday, friends, for a whole new theme. |
| 1:39.1 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to Trashy Divorces. Trashy Breakups Edition midweek. My name is Stacey and Alicia, |
| 1:47.3 | you have a crossover. I do. I have a crossover. This week, it's just a story that's too |
| 1:52.8 | delightfully good not to share with everybody. It's a crossover with Done and Done. And honestly, |
| 1:59.7 | it's normally pretty clear when I do all of my trashy investigations, |
| 2:03.8 | which side of the podcast fence the story needs to go to. |
| 2:07.5 | But this one, holy cats. |
| 2:09.3 | It has everything for both. |
| 2:11.1 | Happy bonus. |
| 2:12.1 | Trashy Dunn Day. |
| 2:13.7 | So within Dun & Dunn in the last few weeks, we have been looking at the fact and the fiction about the 195 death of Billy Woodward, done by his wife Anne. |
| 2:24.5 | This is the shooting of the century. |
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