S10E10: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap | Truman Capote's La Cote Basque, 1965 & Celebrity Lawyer Marvin Mitchelson
Trashy Divorces
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Some unexpected issues mean you get a couple of Patreon faves! First up, Alicia has Truman Capote's dirtiest deed: the publication of La Cote Basque, 1965, the short story in which he knifed every single one of his "swans," betraying and humiliating some of the most important figures in his coveted high-society circle. Speaking of cautionary tales, Stacie has the high flying life and times of celebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, who pioneered the concept of palimony and never missed a chance to promote himself in the press.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Trashy Divorces, y'all. I'm Alicia. My name is Stacey. Thank you for joining us this week. |
| 0:06.1 | It's a little bit of a surprise to us, even. Yeah, we were all ready to record new fresh trashy divorces stories for you this week until the chainsaws and the bobcats came out in the, how do you call it, misty morning light? |
| 0:22.9 | Yes, we were awakened by the dulcet tones of chainsaws clearing the lot next to ours at our new TDHQ 2, which will apparently feature several months of construction. |
| 0:34.5 | So we had power equipment come to raise the house next door. So alas, it is us |
| 0:39.8 | bending with the sway of the universe. Got to tell you, Stacey, this Mercury retrograde is brutal. |
| 0:46.1 | It is. It really is. We're going to do some dirty deeds, done dirt cheap this week. |
| 0:51.6 | We have two stories filled with dirty deeds from Patreon that we are |
| 0:55.7 | pulling out for you because we like your ears and we like that you're here to listen to us |
| 1:01.6 | and we don't think your ears are going to like Bobcats and chainsaws. No. All right. So Alicia, |
| 1:06.1 | who do you have this week? I have the dirty deed of the trashiest short story ever written. It is called |
| 1:13.3 | Lakot Basque, 1965. It is by Truman Capote. This episode is one of the pinnacle ending episodes |
| 1:21.3 | of the Ladies That Lunch series and kind of pulls together the final damage. Also also with a little bit of a tie to my |
| 1:30.0 | solo podcast done and done in the true crime that we are going to talk about the next |
| 1:36.3 | done day. How about you, Stacey? I have sort of a one of the early celebrity lawyers in America. This is a guy named Marvin |
| 1:46.3 | Mitchelson. We've talked about him a bunch on the podcast. He's come up here and there. He pioneered |
| 1:50.8 | the idea of palomony, much to the chagrin of generally wealthy men who have long-term |
| 1:58.0 | relationships with women they do not marry. Can you say dirty deeds? |
| 2:02.5 | I mean, he, gosh, what a colorful American figure and sort of a cautionary tale about life in the law biz. |
| 2:12.1 | Why can't it be everything? |
| 2:13.9 | It's all of that. |
| 2:14.9 | Hey, before we start on the episodes, let's give some huge love and |
| 2:17.8 | thanks to our new patrons this week. These folks are getting early ad-free content and multiple |
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