S19E09: Who's That Lady | Mona von Bismarck, The Kentucky Countess (Done & Dunne Crossover)
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In today's crossover episode with Alicia's other podcast, Done & Dunne, she takes us through the surprising life and many marriages of mid-century socialite and fashion icon, Mona von Bismarck. From humble origins on a Kentucky horse farm, Mona found marriage to be a feasible path to the good life, and was the wife of the then-richest man in America for nearly three decades - but that's far from the end, or the best, of her story!
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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 | com.uk-Uk.w-wondery. That's audible.com.com. UK slash Wondery. |
| 0:11.5 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. My name is Stacey. |
| 0:20.5 | And I'm Alicia. Thanks for joining us today for this |
| 0:23.2 | week's tale of marital misadventure with a done and done crossover twist. Oh, look at that. |
| 0:30.4 | Our story today could have gone into either one of my podcast loves and I'm not sure if y'all know this, but it's my birthday week. |
| 0:39.1 | So I figured why not both? A present for my trash pandas and a present for my investigators too. |
| 0:46.0 | You are really leaning into this August thing. Oh, August slips away like a moment in time. This week, |
| 0:53.6 | I have the tale of Mona von Bismarck, |
| 0:57.6 | the Kentucky Countess. So famous, so fashionable, so trashy. Truman Capote writes about her in |
| 1:05.3 | Romana Clayform and his scandalous answered prayers in the chapter called Kate McLeod. |
| 1:12.1 | She's one of his swans, kind of. |
| 1:14.6 | But Mona was so much more than that. |
| 1:17.2 | She was married five times, three times a widow, twice divorced. |
| 1:21.9 | Her whole life is pretty incredible. |
| 1:24.7 | Legendary fashion designer Jivon She wrote about Mona. |
| 1:29.3 | Her life is worthy of a novel with all things beautiful. |
| 1:34.0 | If you've never heard about Mona von Bismarck, |
| 1:37.2 | I guarantee you're going to want to. |
| 1:39.7 | Let's go, go, go, and let's investigate. |
| 1:42.6 | Sounds good. |
| 1:43.4 | Music go go go and let's investigate. Sounds good. Holy cats, my two podcast universes have collided. |
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