Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts

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by Robert Hofler


  — “by happenstance”: Dominick Dunne, “Death in the Family,” Vanity Fair, March 2004.

  — Griffin Dunne, who stayed: Ibid.

  — “And then John called”: Ibid.

  262 “Hi, Leslie. Thank you”: Dominick Dunne, “Runaway Jurors,” Vanity Fair, June 2004.

  — “The wealthy people just aren’t shooting”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  — “Nobody mentioned it was twelve”: Dominick Dunne, “Going after Martha,” Vanity Fair, April 2004.

  — “There was an audible gasp”: Ibid.

  263 “I suspect that I would have disliked”: Dominick Dunne, “Killing Me Fictionally,” Vanity Fair, April 2005.

  — P. J. Clarke party: Briscoe letter, May 5, 2005.

  — “I Talked to Si”: Briscoe letter, November 5, 2005; anonymous source to author.

  264 Berenson and Colacello: Briscoe guest list, undated.

  — “Believe me, I’ll never forget”: Mike Hogan, “What Drove Dominick Dunne’s Quest for Justice,” Vanity Fair, November 2009.

  — “He became bipolar”: Tim Teeman, “Dominick Dunne,” Times (London), February 2, 2009.

  — Dominick gasped, “Oh my God!”: A. Dunne to author.

  265 LiCalsi advised Dominick: Paul LiCalsi (February 20, 2016) to author.

  — “Jack, I guess in the end”: Cummings to author.

  266 Carter office/seven recent issues/“old people”/Uriah Heep: Briscoe letter, February 1, 2007; anonymous source to author.

  — “I already sent it”: Cummings to author.

  267 Lawson as honorary pallbearer: Briscoe letter, February 1, 2007; Cummings to author.

  — Fuhlenwider was “just fantastic”: Cummings to author.

  — Lawson had his detractors: Anonymous sources to author.

  — finish the last few chapters: Briscoe letter, February 6, 2008.

  268 “So people don’t talk”: Donahue to author.

  — “Don’t use the real names”: Bruce Nelson (March 30, 2015) to author.

  — “out”: Briscoe letter, December 1, 2007.

  — “I’m ready to tell the story”: Kuhn to author.

  — it came to $1 million: Briscoe letter, undated; anonymous sources to author.

  269 Porter tune went on Dominick’s: Teeman, “Dominick Dunne.”

  — hospital escape/“What the fuck”: Carby to author.

  — “It’s the stem cells”: Ibid.

  Chapter 19

  Quotes from Graydon Carter (March 9, 2016), Jack Cummings III (February 8, 2015), Bruce Cutler (May 4, 2015), Linda Deutsch (February 23, 2015), Peter Hong (May 2, 2015), Beth Karas (February 26, 2015), Ciaran McEvoy (April 16, 2015), Steven Mikulan (April 20, 2015), Allan Parachini (April 3, 2015), Harriet Ryan (March 27, 2015), and Gary Spector (April 16, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted.

  270 “accidental suicide”: Scott Raab, “Be My, Be My Baby: The Phil Spector Story,” Esquire, July 2003.

  271 “Oh, I don’t do poor-people”/“We’re going to meet up”: Ryan to author.

  272 “Hannah’s mother”: Hong to author.

  — Coke on his Buddhist: Karas to author.

  — “Spector had threatened”: Dominick Dunne, “Dominick Dunne’s Diary,” Vanity Fair, August 2005.

  — “The idea that the defense”: Dominick Dunne, “Phil Spector’s Cheap Shots,” Vanity Fair, October 2007.

  273 “I had never heard the name”: Dominick Dunne, “Guilty Feelings,” Vanity Fair, November 2007.

  — “endless woe-is-me”/“You know, it sounds”: Mikulan to author.

  274 “Did you wash”: Dominick Dunne, “Cheating on Phil,” Vanity Fair, September 2007.

  — “John Gotti lawyer”: Dominick Dunne, “Legend with a Bullet,” Vanity Fair, August 2007.

  — “a Mafia-type reputation”: D. Dunne, “Guilty Feelings.”

  — “You need to make me lunch”: Hong to author.

  275 “Bruce must feel”: Hong to author.

  — “I do not believe that a beautiful”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  — “Beneath Cutler’s boisterousness”: D. Dunne, “Guilty Feelings.”

  276 no one recognized the editor: Betsy A. Ross (March 2, 2015) to author.

  — Tina Brown Vanity Fair column: Briscoe letter, March 28, 2002; Carter to author.

  — the woman with the tape: Karas to author.

  277 “failure, as if”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  — “filled thirteen notebooks”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  278 “I think the wrong guy”: Ibid.

  — “I’m quite proud that”: Dominick Dunne, “The Verdict Is Missing,” Vanity Fair, October 2007.

  Chapter 20

  Quotes from Tracy Breton (September 19, 2016), Tita Cahn (March 5, 2015), Norman Carby (May 23, 2015), Graydon Carter (March 9, 2016), Mart Crowley (February 5, 2015), Jack Cummings III (February 8, 2015), Kirsty de Garis (March 6, 2015), Linda Deutsch (February 23, 2015), James Duff (March 4, 2015), Alex Dunne (May 21, 2015), Freddy Eberstadt (May 6, 2015), Michael Griffith (February 1, 2016), Jesse Kornbluth (April 23, 2015), Tim A. Lovejoy (February 22, 2016), William Mann (August 4, 2015), Andrea Reynolds Plunket (September 30, 2015), Gary Pudney (May 21, 2015), Markham Roberts (March 30, 2015), James Sansum (March 25, 2015), Tim Teeman (November 16, 2015), Matt Tyrnauer (January 9, 2016), Edmund White (February 17, 2016), and Angus Wilkie (April 30, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted. Griffin Dunne quotes are from Fresh Air interview (December 15, 2009), except where noted.

  279 “It’s too raw”: De Garis to author.

  — “If over fifteen years”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  — “If Vanity Fair didn’t promise”: Anonymous source to author.

  — That was the end”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  280 Dominick signed a contract: Briscoe letter, March 28, 2007.

  — “Let it go”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  — “Is your father”: Kellow, Can I Go Now?, 272.

  — slippers, and a catheter: Crowley to author.

  — “shitty brown”: Lovejoy to author.

  281 “pinked up”/“Scared by fame”/“saw it in me”/“When you have children”: Roberts to author.

  — “I hate to tell you”/“Isn’t she beautiful?”: Tyrnauer to author.

  283 “I’m a closeted homosexual”: Mann to author.

  — “Are you married”: Teeman to author.

  — “closeted bisexual celibate”: Tim Teeman, “Dominick Dunne,” Times, February 12, 2009.

  — “In my era, gay men”: Teeman, “Dominick Dunne.”

  284 “Oh, I don’t care”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.

  — he knew every restroom: Briscoe letter, undated.

  — “a state of terror”: Briscoe letter, undated.

  — “I’d rather be kissed”: Cahn to author.

  — “like God” and stood up: McEvoy to author.

  285 “This is the stupidest”: Deutsch to author.

  — “I had a literary following”: Steve Friess, “The Final O.J. Story for Dominick Dunne,” New York Times, September 19, 2008.

  — “Hey, she’s after Dominick”: Ibid.

  — “Mr. Dunne, it is so wonderful”/“I hate to admit it”: Deutsch to author.

  286 “Call Griffin”: Karas to author.

  — “getting flowers”/“Are you Dominick’s”: Mike Hogan, “How Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne Relentlessly Pursued the O.J. Simpson Story,” Vanity Fair online, March 1, 2016.

  — second wedding: A. Dunne to author; Adam Belanoff (March 5, 2015) to author.

  286 stem-cell treatments instead: Carby to author.

  287 “Your Majesty”/castle anecdote: Briscoe letter, May 25, 2009; Carby to author.

  288 toilet paper as a gift: Karas to author.

  — Lufthansa flight home: Carby to author.

  — “I wish I could
do Conrad”: Tina Brown, “The Unforgettable Dominick Dunne,” Huffington Post, August 27, 2009.

  — “He seems in great shape”: Cummings to author.

  — “I did it”: Langella, Dropped Names, 205.

  289 “Edmond Safra’s nurse”: Griffith to author.

  — “Am I still alive”: Eberstadt to author.

  — Griffin Dunne phoned Jesse: Kornbluth to author.

  — “That’s true”: Crowley to author.

  — “We almost never see”: Cummings to author; Dominick Dunne interview, unpublished, with author for Party Animals.

  290 “I don’t want any ick”: Cummings to author.

  — “professional mourners”: Griffin Dunne, “Farewell to My Father,” Daily Beast, September 11, 2009.

  — “But I don’t have a suit”: Cummings to author.

  — “My Funny Valentine” anecdote and quotes: G. Dunne, Fresh Air interview.

  291 he began to complain: Crowley to author.

  — purchased the last available plot: Lovejoy to author.

  — asked Mart Crowley and Jack Cummings: Crowley to author; Cummings to author.

  — fireplace fender: Stark to author.

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  Schiller, Lawrence, and James Willwerth. American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense. New York: Random House, 1996.

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  Toobin, Jeffrey. The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

  Filmography

  Dominick Dunne: After the Party. Directed by Kirsty de Garis and Timothy Jolley. Road Trip Films, 2008.

  Dominick Dunne: In Search of Justice. Directed by Clara Kupferberg and Robert Kupferberg. Wichita Films, 2007.

  Guilty Pleasure: The Extraordinary World of Dominick Dunne. Directed by Barry Avrich. Melbar Entertainment Group, 2002.

  Making the Boys. Directed by Crayton Robey. 4th Row Films, 2011.

  O.J.: Made in America. Directed by Ezra Edelman. ESPN, 2016.

  Index

  Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.

  Abrams, Dan, 186, 208, 209, 218, 224, 244

  Abramson, Leslie, 125, 165, 186–87, 189, 190, 191, 192–93, 197, 198, 208, 209, 262

  Adelson, Marvin, 119, 124–25, 126–29, 130, 132

  Advocate Experience, 93–94, 104

  Alamac Hotel, 53

  Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 94, 116

  Al-Fayed, Mohamed, 198, 245, 284

  Alfred’s Mistress (Basichis), 135–36

  Allan, Rupert, 48, 118

  All That Glitters, 19

  American Broadcast Company (ABC), 92, 103, 109, 186, 197, 225

  American Conservatory Theater (ACT), 54, 55

  American Tragedy (Schiller and Willwerth), 227

  Amnesty International, 257

  Ann-Margret, 57–58, 75, 139, 152, 162

  Another City, Not My Own (D. Dunne), 205, 227–29, 232, 267

  Answered Prayers (Capote), 78, 115, 122

  Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara), 26

  Armstrong, Louis, 90

  Ashley, Elizabeth, 173

  Ash Wednesday, 63–72, 74, 101, 103, 109, 144, 159, 207, 281

  Associated Press (AP), 129, 187

  Atlantic Monthly, 252

  Au Bar, 176

  Avco-Embassy, 52, 53

  Avrich, Barry, 244–45

  Bacall, Lauren, 27, 32, 139

  Bachardy, Don, 36

  Bailey, F. Lee, 211

  Baker, Dorothy, 37

  Barens, Arthur, 135

  Barshop, Steven, 123, 125–26, 127, 130

  Bart, Peter, 60–61, 63, 72

  Basichis, Gordon, 135–36

  Baxter, Keith, 65–69, 159

  Beaton, Cecil, 35, 280

  Beat the Devil, 20

  Begelman, David, 85, 86–88, 92, 95, 114, 132

  Begelman, Gladyce, 85–86, 96

  Belanoff, Adam, 286

  Bell, Aimee, 182

  Belle Lettres, 99, 113

  Benedict, Jonathan, 242, 252

  Benny, Mary, 97

  Berenson, Berry, 62

  Berenson, Marisa, 95, 264

  Berger, Helmut, 65–66, 68–69, 70, 281

  Berger, Robert “Buzz,” 219–20, 232

  Bergman, Ingrid, 76

  Bernstein, Rich, 248–49, 266

  Berry, John, 86–88

  Bette Davis Show, The, 46. See also Decorator, The

  Beverly Hills Hotel, 27, 102, 131, 212, 276

  Beverly Hills on a Thousand Dollars a Day (G. Begelman), 85

  Beverly Wilshire Hotel, 80, 81

  Biltmore Plaza Hotel, 143, 145, 150

  Bistro, The, 32–33

  Bistro Garden, The, 77, 100

  Black Butte Ranch, 101, 102, 103, 263

  Blake, Robert, 263

  Blakley, Bonnie Lee, 263

  Bloomingdale, Alfred S., 46–47, 82, 123, 134, 136, 173, 230

  Bloomingdale, Betsy, 27, 36, 82, 98, 105, 123, 135, 171–73, 205–7

  Boesky, Ivan, 169

  Bogarde, Dirk, 271

  Bogart, Humphrey, 20

  Bolen, Alex, 281

  Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolfe), 168

  Bono, 208

  Bosco, Joseph, 209

  Boston Globe, 143

  Bouvier, Jacqueline, 24. See also Kennedy, Jacqueline

  Bowers, Scotty, 29, 139,
282, 283

  Bowman, Patricia, 176, 177

  Boys in the Band, The (film), 45–47, 50, 51, 52, 140, 156–57

  Boys in the Band, The (play) (Crowley), 37

  Boys in the Sand, The, 111

  Bozanich, Pamela, 184–85, 198–99

  Brenner, Marie, 81, 88, 105, 120, 121, 131, 148, 207–8

  Bresky, Hank, 15, 16

  Breton, Tracy, 143, 287

  Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 230

  Bronze Star, 16–18, 275

  Brown, David, 53, 219–20, 248

  Brown, Denise, 248

  Brown, James Oliver, 114

  Brown, Nicole, 34. See also Simpson, Nicole Brown

  Brown, Tina, 120–22, 132, 137, 138, 141, 149, 181, 201–2, 246, 267, 276, 288, 291

  Brown Derby, 27, 107

  Bryan, Jamie, 232–33, 235

  Buffalo Bob, 20

  Burke’s Law, 37

  Burns, Dominick, 9

  Burns, Harriet, 27, 104, 107

  Burton, Maria, 67

  Burton, Richard, 63–64, 66, 68–69, 71, 144

  Burton, William O., 13

  Byrne, Bridget, 55

  Cable News Network (CNN), 142, 201, 215, 223, 226–27, 253, 274

  Café de Flore, 58

  Cahn, Tita, 97, 171, 175, 204, 284

  Caine, Michael, 43

  Calley, John, 24

  Canby, Vincent, 62

  Cannes Film Festival, 55–56, 126, 276, 284

  Canterbury School, 12–15, 18, 27, 201

  Capote, Truman, 21, 35, 78–80, 108, 115, 122, 155, 169, 192, 197, 228–29, 230

  Carby, Norman, 29, 66, 75–77, 79, 90, 93–94, 127–28, 151, 167, 172, 241, 269, 283, 286–88

  Carlton Cannes, 56, 284

  Carlyle Hotel, 243

  Carr, Allan, 75–76, 78–79, 84–85, 95–96, 99, 123, 139, 161, 287

  Carter, Graydon, 181–82, 218, 224–25, 245–46, 248, 256, 260, 262, 265–66, 269–70, 276, 279–80, 290, 291

  Caruso, Michelle, 224

  Cassandra at the Wedding (Baker), 37–38

  Cassini, Igor, 25–26, 122

  Catholics Against Kennedy, 10

  CBS Films, 46

  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 116

  Certic, Mia, 257–59

  Chaleff, Gerald, 187

  Chambers, Anne Cox, 169–70

  Champlin, Charles, 62

  Chandler, Dorothy, 87

  Channing, Carol, 230

 

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