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14.03.2024 - 07:45 / variety.com
Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com The last scandalous reveal in Ryan Murphy’s docudrama “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” was far more surprising than any of the gossip-filled tales penned by Truman Capote (played by Tom Hollander). The final twist came 32 years after his death when a longtime confidant, Joanne Carson (played in the drama by Molly Ringwald), decided to auction off the writer’s remains to the highest bidder.
In the finale, the last moments of Capote’s life show him floating in and out of consciousness. Excommunicated from New York, after penning several stories exposing his socialite friends’ darkest secrets, and banished to Los Angeles, Capote seeks refuge in the home of Carson. And it is in that room that Capote takes his last breaths, asking for his mother and “beautiful babe,” aka Barbara Paley (played by Naomi Watts).
The series then jumps forward to the year 2016, Carson has also passed and her estate auction is in progress. The auctioneer informs the crowd of a “very unusual item,” a wooden box of Capote’s ashes. Aghast, the ghosts of his swans (dressed all in white) watch over the spectacle as the remains sell for close to $44,000.
Calling the world “graceless,” the horrified spirits ultimately decide they should depart to lunch at the big Polo Lounge in the sky. End scene. As wild as this all sounds, one plot point in this conclusion is entirely accurate: Truman Capote’s ashes were, in fact, sold on the auction block after Carson’s death, according to executive director and co-founder of Julien’s Auctions Martin Nolan.
“I met Joanne Carson in her home when she was alive,” said Nolan to Variety. “A lovely lady and an interesting lady. When she passed away, she chose Julien’s to handle her
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