Over and Dunne

Dominick Dunne, who made the ground-breaking discovery that rich people don’t experience the judicial system quite the same way that the rest of society does, has died at the age of 84. The spoiled rich kid was accustomed to the ways of the social elite, as the latest generation of a stately family and with a father who was a prominent heart surgeon, and had some experience with celebrity as film and television producer and director. Then in 1982, karma kicked back, as his daughter, actress Dominique Dunne, was murdered. Dunne chronicled the trial in the article "Justice: A Father's Account of the Trial of his Daughter's Killer" for Vanity Fair, and found himself a niche, chronicling the murders and/or trials of Alfred Bloomingdale’s mistress Vicki Morgan, banking heir William Woodward, Jr., O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bulow, Michael Skakel, William Kennedy Smith, and those wacky Menendezes (Menendi?). Surprisingly for such an upstanding segment of journalism, Dunne occasionally went too far, and in 2005 had to apologize and buy the forgiveness of Gary Condit after accusing him of killing his intern Chandra Levy.