Dominick Dunne, Novelist and journalist wrote fiction and nonfiction about the rich, famous, and corrupt.
Dunne was born October 29, 1925, to a wealthy family in Hartford, Connecticut. He worked in television in New York and later produced films in Hollywood. After a battle with alcoholism and drug abuse, he began writing novels.
After Dunne's studies at Kingswood-Oxford, Williams College and service in World War II, including the battle of Metz, he moved to New York, then to Hollywood, where he directed Playhouse 90 and became vice-president of Four Star Pictures. He hobnobbed with the rich and the famous of those days. In 1979, beset with problems of addiction, he left Hollywood and moved to rural Oregon, where he says he dealt with his personal demons and wrote his first book, The Winners. In November 1982, his daughter, Dominique Dunne, best known for her part in Poltergeist, was murdered. Dunne attended the trial of her murderer, John Thomas Sweeney, and subsequently wrote the article "Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of his Daughter's Killer" for Vanity Fair. He went on to write for Vanity Fair regularly and fictionalized several real-life events, such as the murders of Alfred Bloomingdale's mistress Vicki Morgan and banking heir William Woodward, Jr., for best-selling books. He eventually hosted the TV series "Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice" on CourtTV (later truTV), in which he discussed justice and injustice and their intersection with celebrities. Famous trials he covered include those of O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bulow, Michael Skakel, William Kennedy Smith, and the Menendez brothers.

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