26 Aug
2009
Society crime writer, essayist for “Vanity Fair“, best-selling author, television host, and ex-Hollywood producer, Dominick Dunne has died at home in New York City, aged 83 years, following a long, hard-fought battle with bladder cancer.
Dominick, known simply as “Nick” to his friends, returned this month from Germany where he received another stem cell treatments at the Bavarian clinic where the late Farrah Fawcett visited. Upon his arrival back in New York, he was hospitalized and then sent home.
Born 1925 into a wealthy family in Hartford, Connecticut, Dominick moved to Hollywood in the 1960′s and became a movie producer: “The Boys in the Band“, “The Panic in Needle Park“, “Play It as It Lays“, and “Ash Wednesday“. However, he hit rock bottom becoming an alcoholic and a dug addict. “A nobody,” his fiercest nightmare.
He sobered up in 1979, and retreated to a tiny log cabin in Oregon, where he penned his first novel, before heading back home to New York with but a typewriter and the one suitcase.
His “Vanity Fair” career began on the heels of personal tragedy in the 1982 strangulation murder of his 22-year-old actress daughter Dominique Dunne, who had a major role in Steven Spielberg‘s film “Poltergeist“. Her estranged boyfriend John Sweeney, killed her after a failed attempt to win her back, served less than three years in prison from a 6 1/2 year sentence for the crime of manslaughter. Dominick assuaged his fury via an article, “Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of his Daughter’s Killer“, published by “Vanity Fair” whose then-editor, Tina Brown, offered him a full time writing gig at the magazine.
Digital Cheeseburger has lost a firm favorite truTV storyteller of class and clout, Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice.
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