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Jun 17, 2024 · Dominick Dunne, the author’s father, began as a film producer, fell on hard times and then reinvented himself as the foremost chronicler of high-profile crime.
Jun 11, 2024 · The 22-year-old actress was at the start of a blossoming career — she played a screaming female in Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist — when she was choked to death by her boyfriend in a highly...
Jun 16, 2024 · Dominique Dunne, daughter of Dominick and sister of Griffin, was a 22 year-old actress when she was strangled to death by an ex-boyfriend in 1982. The tragedy of his daughter’s murder, the ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Griffin Dunne, left, the son of Dominick Dunne and nephew of Joan Didion, was born into privilege but has also endured his fair share of trauma and tragedy, which he recounts in his family...
Jun 21, 2024 · His uncle was the writer John Gregory Dunne, his aunt was Joan Didion and his father was Dominick Dunne, who became famous for his Vanity Fair dispatches from the trial of the man who killed...
Jun 10, 2024 · After her death, he became known as Dominick Dunne, the father of a murdered daughter, and he wrote quite extensively about her and other murders and just became another persona. It...
Jun 10, 2024 · But the biggest tragedy came in 1982 when his sister, Dominique Dunne, herself an up-and-coming actress with a role in “Poltergeist,” was murdered on her front lawn by an abusive ex-boyfriend. Dunne’s family attended the trial every day, which ended in a light sentence for Dunne’s killer.
