Done & Dunne

Last week Betty Broderick passed away in prison at the age of 78, spending 34 years of her life locked up after murdering her ex-husband Dan and his second wife. Betty’s ultimately fatal obsession was a true crime standout and captured the nation’s attention through her two separate trials.

It seemed fitting this week to reprise this episode from the archive to revisit the very trashy divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick, including her crime and punishment.

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Today, we are taking a little trip to Cap Ferrat on the Riviera to explore the connections and spiderwebs in one special house, Villa La Mauresque. This house has played host to many a high society and literary figure in its day being owned at one time by both Somerset Maugham and Lynn Wyatt. This villa is loaded with history, and is a definite hot spot on the circuit. Or used to be, before an oligarch steps in reshape the future of the villa.

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In a bit of an attachment to Lynn Wyatt, our main subject this week, we could not let this particular story fall to the wayside. Lynn had a pretty terrible first marriage early in life to a playboy heir, Robert Lipman. After their divorce, Robert took himself on quite an international tour of travel, and so many drugs. It was in 1967, in swinging Chelsea, that Robert took more than drugs - he took the life of a young girl too, Claudie Delbarre. The manhunt and trial certainly bring to light the power and privilege of the upper crust, and a decided lack of justice too.

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Dominick Dunne is always talking about the people he knows, and in this segment, he is reporting in 2006 about so many troubles of the socialite ladies in his circle. Lynn Wyatt is the focus here and all the woes with her billionaire husband Oscar Wyatt at the time. We get to know little a bit here, mostly through her dedicated support of her husband at this time.

Also added, Alicia chimes in with more stories to connect this one into our investigation, including the romance of Sarah Ferguson and Steve Wyatt, Lynn's son from her first marriage, which is coming back around in no time.

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We reconnect with Gardner McKay this week, the handsome actor who starred as Adam Troy in Adventures in Paradise. Gardner was a Dominick Dunne discovery, and Dunne loves to remind you of that fact. In this episode, we begin with a 1999 piece with Dunne being asked for a quote for Gardner’s new book, Toyer. With namedrops, studio gossip and a little more too, Gardner McKay is not a man you will soon forget.

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