90. The Palm Beach Chronicles: Sue Whitmore and Mollie Wilmot
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Oh my – we are working our way through some of the stories Dominick Dunne got a piece of in his investigations into this sunny fantasy land for the very wealthy.
In this episode, we sleuth around the stories of Susan H. Whitmore, the Listerine heiress, and Mollie Wilmot, who became famous in 1984 when a 200-foot-long tanker ran into her Palm Beach seawall.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Done and Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, |
| 0:07.6 | where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thanks for joining me today. We are back for |
| 0:14.3 | another edition of the Palm Beach Chronicles, our journey into finding the real Palm Beach this month on Dun & Done. |
| 0:23.5 | In this episode, we're going to pull two threads of some of what we explored in last |
| 0:29.6 | week's debut episode from the opening of Dominic Dunn's The Women of Palm Beach piece, |
| 0:35.8 | again written for Vanity Fair in April of 1986. |
| 0:39.9 | The two threads were pulling today, those of Sue Whitmore, the Listerine heiress, and Molly |
| 0:46.8 | Nettcher, Bragno-Bostwick, Wilmot, who did have a tanker pretty much run into her living room. |
| 0:54.0 | I mean, you know these are two |
| 0:55.6 | threads we simply have to pull. Before we begin this chronicle into finding the real Palm Beach, |
| 1:01.5 | I do have a spyglass here to give some tremendous thanks to a few of our friends. |
| 1:08.2 | Caroline, my equestrian friend, I am sending all the love to you this week. Thank you for |
| 1:13.7 | listening and making your history class notes so completely on brand. I adore the all of you. |
| 1:20.7 | Nick, Holy Cats, thanks for your kind email. You're simply the best. Got a few more names in my |
| 1:27.0 | spyglass here with a tremendous shout out to give to our newest Patreon supporters over at patreon.com slash done and done. |
| 1:35.5 | Wendy A. and Kim S. Wausa. |
| 1:38.8 | Thank you for joining the community over there for so grateful to you and to all of our Patreon community |
| 1:45.7 | and you for coming to join us today in our continuing investigation. What a ride we're |
| 1:52.1 | going to take. First up, Sue Whitmore. A little bit of an easy story there and then on to |
| 1:58.2 | Hello Molly. These stories are simply just too good not to share. Let's investigate. date. It is with Sue Whitmore that we're going to begin our journey today. |
| 2:27.4 | Sue was introduced in Dunn's opening, the women of Palm Beach this way. |
| 2:32.7 | The lady with the long blonde hair who never misses a dance is Sue Whitmore, the Listerine heiress. |
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