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  2. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. Jun 5, 2024 · Griffin’s father, Dominick Dunne, was a movie producer who washed out and then reinvented himself after writing in Vanity Fair about the 1983 murder trial of his own daughter — a starlet, in...

  5. 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 ...

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  6. Jun 7, 2024 · His father was journalist and novelist Dominick Dunne; and his uncle and aunt were novelists and screenwriters John Gregory Dunne, and Joan Didion. While the first-time author disregarded Didion’s aphorism that “a writer is always selling somebody out,” he was inspired by his relatives all writing “from such personal places.”

  7. 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...

  8. 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.