Too Much Money
Best-Selling Novelist Dominick Dunne Dead At 83
Posted on Aug 27, 2009 @ 12:14AM - Add a comment
Best-selling novelist Dominick Dunne, who gained A-List fame chronicling the shocking crimes of the rich and famous, succumbed to bladder cancer Wednesday and died at his home in Manhattan. He was 83.
Dunne grew up in a large, prominent and wealthy Irish-Catholic family in West Hartford, CT. A former movie producer and TV exec, Dunne found real success later in life with such novels as The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and A Season in Purgatory. But it was his brilliant and often controversial coverage of the O.J. Simpson "Trial of the Century" for Vanity Fair that transformed him in 1995 into a bona fide, red-hot celebrity in his own right.
