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Podcast: Life Elsewhere
Episode: Behind The Glitz, The Glamour, & The Factory - Show 445
Description: Laurence Leamer - Capote’s Women - A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for An Era
“There are certain women,” Truman Capote wrote, “who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.” Barbara “Babe” Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy’s sister)—they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. Capote befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and...