S20E03: Hugh D. Auchincloss (Done & Dunne Crossover)

Trashy Divorces

Hemlock Creatives

History, Comedy

4.5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Some stories have so much trash it's hard to know where to begin, but for scion of the Standard Oil fortune Hugh D. Auchincloss, it's hard to know even where to stop. Auchincloss, about as blue blood as you can get, was married three times, and through that particular journey, ended up being step-father to the future Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwell, from his third marriage, as well as the writer Gore Vidal, via his second marriage. It's this second marriage, to the former Nina Gore, that opened him to the later ponderings of step-son Gore Vidal, and his particularly poisonous pen. Get ready for a bit of a Forrest Gump journey through mid-20th century America, but in this case, a rich Forrest Gump with serious erectile dysfunction.

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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.com.
0:05.5	U.K.-slash-wondery. That's audible.com.
0:09.0	com.uk-slash-wondery.
0:11.4	Hello and welcome to another edition of Trashy Divorces.
0:15.8	Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.
0:19.9	My name is Stacey.
0:24.1	Hey, friends, I'm Alicia. Thank you for joining us for today's tale of marital misadventure, trash pandas, and investigators. This one's too good not to
0:31.2	share between trashy divorces and done and done. Welcome from whichever platform you're listening on,
0:37.3	this is the stuff with real
0:39.9	payoffs on both sides of the podcasting fences. So Stacey in your last episode, you mentioned
0:46.8	Hammersmith Farm with the mention of Hammersmith, the Newport, Rhode Island home of Hugh D.
0:53.4	Ockincloss. It was time for Hugh D. Oh, gosh. His story
0:58.0	and all the spider webs, there are connections into everything. This is a trashy rabbit hole.
1:03.5	There's a lot of payoff in the story. You don't even know where to look. There's a lot going on.
1:07.8	You are so lit up about this. You have been so lit up about this.
1:11.9	I'm so excited to hear this.
1:13.8	Okay, so on one side of the fence, this story is classic trashy divorces.
1:18.3	In this trashy divorces story, everything you could want with two divorces and so many affairs and so many spiderwebs and so many famous offspring.
1:27.1	Just wow. Like what people won't do for love
1:29.6	or money or children for that matter. But on the flip side, as on done and done, we have been on our
1:37.5	heiress tour. We are getting into the High Society of the Newport, Rhode Island scene now, and this
1:44.0	really does go
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