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

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by Robert Hofler


  Mikulan, Steven, 272

  Mind’s Eye, 190

  Miramonti Majestic Grand Hotel, 65, 71

  Mirren, Helen, 277–78

  “Miscarriage of Justice, A” (R. F. Kennedy Jr.), 252

  Mrs. Grenville (novel) (D. Dunne), 115, 118, 122, 126, 134, 137, 138. See also North Shore; Two Mrs. Grenvilles, The

  Monteverde, Alfredo, 257

  Montgomery, Robert, 24

  Moore, Michael, 209

  Moore, Robert, 46, 47

  Moore, Susanna, 41, 125–26

  Moran, Terry, 6, 189

  Morano, Chris, 238–40, 252

  Morgan, Michele, 56

  Morgan, Vicki, 122, 124, 126, 134–35, 136, 172, 173

  Morley, Robert, 20–21

  Morrall, Kathy, 180

  Morrisey, Daniel, 290

  Morrison, Jim, 52, 53

  Morrissey, Paul, 64–65

  Morse, Robert, 197

  Mortons, 88, 100, 208, 229

  Moxley, Dorthy, 177–79, 180, 181, 233–35, 237–38, 250–51

  Moxley, Martha, 177–78, 180, 181, 219, 233–35, 239, 241, 242, 250, 252

  Murder in Brentwood (Fuhrman), 234

  Murder in Greenwich (Fuhrman), 240–42

  Music Corporation of America (MCA), 77, 83

  My Fair Lady, 35

  “My Funny Valentine,” 290–91

  National Broadcasting Company (NBC), 20, 24–26, 58, 67, 85, 103, 138, 139, 140, 152, 209, 225, 289

  National Enquirer, 177, 178

  Nelson, Bruce, 172, 183–84

  Nevins Taylor, Barbara, 142, 144, 145, 146, 147–49, 276

  Newhouse, S. I., 245, 279

  Newsday, 208

  Newton, Helmut, 148, 181

  Newton-John, Olivia, 97, 161

  New York, 81, 104, 116, 142, 204, 245, 252, 255

  New Yorker, 113, 181, 201–2, 214, 215, 262

  New York Film Festival, 92

  New York Newsday, 181

  New York Observer, 182

  New York Post, 178, 223

  New York Times, 23, 86, 88, 92, 114, 144, 146, 171, 173, 179, 228, 247, 285

  Night Must Fall (Williams), 19

  Nin, Anaïs, 18

  Niven, David, 37, 79

  Noor, Queen, 204

  North Shore (D. Dunne), 114–15. See also Mrs. Grenville; Two Mrs. Grenvilles, The

  Norton, John, 49

  Novelli, Norma, 190

  Now, Voyager, 11–12, 39, 265

  Nureyev, Rudolf, 76

  Obama, Barack, 284

  Oberon, Merle, 43

  Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 19

  O’Hara, John, 26

  O’Neill, Suzanne, 267, 288

  Osborne, Robert, 140

  Osika, Joyce, 100–101, 103, 106–7

  Osika, Nick, 100–101, 103, 106

  O’Sullivan, Maureen, 32

  Otello, 212

  Other Voices, Other Rooms (Capote), 21

  Our Town, 25, 153

  Oziel, L. Jerome, 184, 193, 194

  Pacino, Al, 53–54, 55, 56, 158

  Page Six, 224, 247

  Pakula, Alan J., 48, 82

  Palais de Justice, 257, 259

  Palais des Festivals, 56

  Paley, Babe, 78, 79, 169, 171

  Pancoast, Marvin, 123, 124, 126, 134, 135–37, 172, 256

  Panic in Needle Park, The (film), 51–56, 59, 60, 158, 230

  Panic in Needle Park, The (novel) (Mills), 51

  Parachini, Allan, 271

  Paramount Pictures, 61, 63, 67, 71, 72, 204

  Parents of Murdered Children, 123–24, 131

  Park, Allan, 224

  Park Street Trust, 9

  Parsons, Louella, 25, 29, 58

  Patroon, 232–33, 243, 255

  Pay the Price (Cassini), 122

  Peck, Veronique, 204

  Peckinpah, Sam, 59, 66–67, 68, 69, 71, 73

  Peerce, Larry, 63–64, 66–68, 69–71, 73

  Pellicano, Anthony, 131

  People, 132

  People Like Us (novel) (D. Dunne), 112, 137, 168–71, 173, 222, 227, 260, 281

  People Like Us (TV), 53, 111

  Perkins, Tony, 57, 62, 159

  Perlman, Shirley, 208–9, 224

  Perrine, Valerie, 96

  Perry, Eleanor, 61

  Perry, Frank, 56, 59, 61–62

  Petrified Forest, The, 27

  Pierce, Lillian, 126, 127, 132

  Pigozzi, Jean, 260

  Pius XII, Pope, 9

  Playboy, 116, 187, 197

  Playhouse 90, 27, 38

  Play It Again, Sam (Allen), 62

  Play It as It Lays (film), 56–60, 63, 139, 159, 230

  Play It as It Lays (novel) (Didion), 40, 44, 101, 104, 108

  Playland (J. G. Dunne), 198

  Plunket, Andrea, 150, 288. See also Reynolds, Andrea

  Polanski, Roman, 50, 76

  Pollock, Sue, 138, 140, 152

  Polo Lounge, 86–87, 100

  Poltergeist, 117, 163

  Poole, Bob, 209

  Pop Culture Review, 231

  Powell, Dick, 37

  Prashker, Betty, 88, 114–15, 138, 267, 289

  “Primetime Justice,” 189

  Princeton University, 25, 191

  Pringle, Paul, 209

  Puck, Wolfgang, 117

  Pudney, Gary, 285

  Rader, Dotson, 61, 79–80, 122

  Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 74, 77, 83

  Raging Heart (Weller), 212

  Rand, Robert, 5–6, 177, 187, 189, 284

  Ransohoff, Joan, 227, 244

  Ransohoff, Martin, 244

  Razor’s Edge, The (Maugham), 110

  Reagan, Nancy, 36, 37, 82, 98, 114, 123, 135, 171, 172, 173, 174, 206–7

  Reagan, Ronald, 36, 37, 82, 114, 123, 126, 134, 171

  Red White and Blue, The (J. G. Dunne), 151

  Reed, Rex, 61

  Reiner, Ira, 89, 225

  Resentment: A Comedy (Indiana), 228

  Reynolds, Andrea, 142–43, 144, 146, 147, 148–49, 163, 168, 169, 181. See also Plunket, Andrea

  Rice, Luanne, 11

  Ritz Paris, The, 243, 247

  Robert Montgomery Presents, 24–26

  Roberts, Markham, 281–82

  Robertson, Cliff, 22, 86–87

  Robinson, Jill, 173

  Rockefeller, Winthrop, 173

  Rodgers, Mary, 283

  Rooks, Susan, 226

  Rosenman, Howard, 47, 48, 49, 59, 90

  Ross, Diana, 76, 79

  Rossellini, Roberto, 76

  Rounick, Judith Mazor, 169

  Royal Ballet of England, 44

  Rubell, Steve, 116

  Run of His Life, The (Toobin), 227

  Rutten, Tim, 186, 198, 228, 262

  Ryan, Harriet, 271

  Safra, Edmond, 256–58, 260

  Safra, Lily, 256–57, 259–60, 263, 269. See also Watkins, Lily

  Salvador (Didion), 118

  Sansum, James, 281–82

  Santa Monica Evening Outlook, 118, 119, 127

  Saturday Evening Post, 52, 60

  Scandia, 51

  Scarborough, Chuck, 169

  Schatzberg, Jerry, 53–54, 55, 56

  Scheiff, Henry, 255

  Scheinbaum, Stanley, 204

  Schiller, Lawrence, 220–22, 227

  Schrader, Paul, 60

  Schumacher, Joel, 59–60, 61, 68

  Schwartz, Jack, 58, 67, 71–72, 280. See also Tramont, Jean-Claude

  Season in Purgatory, A (novel) (D. Dunne), 112, 177–79, 181, 219, 230

  Season in Purgatory, A (TV), 219–20, 232

  Sebring, Jay, 33, 35, 40, 50

  Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam (Gibson), 273

  Sellers, Peter, 75, 79

  Selznick, David O., 29, 35

  Sentinel, 212

  Serpentine Galleries, 164, 218–19

  Sessums, Kevin, 181, 246

  Shakespeare, Andrea, 180, 240, 252


  Shapiro, Joseph, 119, 126, 132

  Sherman, Mickey, 242, 250–51, 255

  Sherman Square, 53

  Shipp, Ronald G., 211–12, 213–14, 251–52

  Shore, Dinah, 15

  Shriver, Sargent, 12–13, 201

  Signorile, Michelangelo, 247

  Silver, Joel, 260

  Simon & Schuster, 93, 94, 101, 105, 109, 111, 112

  Simpson, Eunice, 213–14, 216, 286

  Simpson, Jason, 225

  Simpson, Nicole Brown, 117, 198, 200, 202, 210, 211, 212, 216, 219, 221, 238, 244. See also Brown, Nicole

  Simpson, O.J., 34, 166, 198, 200–203, 204–15, 219–22, 223, 224–27, 235, 238, 239, 243, 255, 262, 263, 272, 285–87

  Simpson Baker, Shirley, 213–14, 216, 226, 286

  Simpson Durio, Carmelita, 213–14, 216, 226, 286

  Sinatra, Frank, 25, 27, 32–34, 54, 153, 176, 259, 285

  Sinatra, Tina, 285

  Skakel, Julie, 240

  Skakel, Michael, 177, 180–81, 233, 238, 239–40, 242, 249, 250, 252–53, 255

  Skakel, Rushton, 12–13, 177, 181, 233–33

  Skakel, Tommy, 177–78, 180–81

  Smith, Chris, 245–46

  Smith, Jaclyn, 90, 111

  Smith, Liz, 25–26, 88, 139–40, 151, 181, 228, 243, 259–60, 291

  Smith, William Kennedy, 176–77, 180

  Smyth, Judalon, 184, 193–94, 195

  Snowdon, Lord, 280

  Social Register, 24

  Solo Act, A (D. Dunne), 267–68, 283, 288. See also Too Much Money

  Sondheim, Stephen, 19–20, 57, 90, 139, 289–90, 291

  Spectavision, 74

  Spector, Gary, 276–77

  Spector, Louis, 276–77

  Spector, Phil, 166, 263, 270–77, 285, 287

  Spector, Rachelle, 274

  Spelling, Aaron, 33, 88–89, 91, 95, 134, 219–20

  Spy, 181–82, 260

  Stamford Advocate, 178, 181

  Star Is Born, A (1954), 45

  Star Is Born, A (1976), 83, 97, 106

  Stark, Fran, 82, 97, 106

  Stark, Ray, 82, 84, 87, 92, 96, 97, 106, 110, 114, 132, 134, 205, 228–29

  Stark, Wendy, 83, 92, 96, 97, 106, 109, 134, 205, 228–29, 265, 291–92

  Stein, Doris, 77, 96

  Stein, Jules, 77

  Steinberg, Saul, 169

  Stephanopoulos, George, 292

  Stewart, Martha, 262–63

  Stewart, Rod, 96, 287

  Stiefel, Arnold, 86–87, 93, 95, 99, 106, 109

  Stompanato, John, 31, 153

  Stonewall Riots, 50

  Streisand, Barbra, 83, 85

  Studio, The (J. G. Dunne), 52

  Sutton Associates, 181, 232–33, 235, 241–42

  Sutton report, 232–35, 237, 239, 240, 241–42, 251, 253

  Sweeney, John, 3, 116–18, 119, 121, 126–29, 131, 140, 177, 186–87, 220, 236, 272, 275

  Taki, 269

  Tanen, Ned, 56–57, 62

  Tapert, Annette, 169

  Tate, Sharon, 41, 50, 134

  Tatler, 120

  Taubman, Alfred, 169, 228, 260

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 63–64, 65–71, 72, 101, 103, 144, 207, 227, 228, 248, 274, 280, 281

  Teeman, Tim, 283

  Terrail, Patrick, 118, 119, 132

  Terrien, George, 180

  Terrien, Paul, 180

  Thomas, Michael M., 44

  Time, 58, 60, 228

  Time to Smell the Roses, A (D. Dunne), 83–84, 254

  Tipping, Mike, 127, 128, 129

  Tobias, Andrew, 88

  Todd, Liza, 68–69

  Toobin, Jeffrey, 201–3, 208, 210, 215, 222, 225, 227, 262

  Too Much Money (D. Dunne), 112, 288, 292. See also Solo Act, A

  Torrente, Vivian, 258

  Tracy, Spencer, 27, 282

  Trader Vic’s, 82

  Tramont, Jean-Claude, 58, 63, 67, 71–72, 89, 94, 160, 280. See also Schwartz, Jack

  Tripp, Linda, 241

  Tropicana, The, 80–81

  Truscott, Lucian IV, 88, 114

  Turner, Lana, 27, 31, 153

  Twentieth Century Fox, 37, 44, 53, 99, 103

  Twin View Resort, 100, 102, 108, 110

  Two Mrs. Grenvilles, The (novel) (D. Dunne), 25, 138, 142, 152, 188, 255. See also Mrs. Grenville; North Shore

  Two Mrs. Grenvilles, The (TV), 112, 139–40, 152, 162, 173, 219

  Tyrnauer, Matt, 182, 267, 282

  Universal Pictures, 56, 77, 78

  University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 187, 229

  Users, The (novel) (Haber), 89

  Users, The (TV), 89–90, 91–93, 100–101, 111

  Vanderbilt, Gloria, 22, 169

  Vanity Fair, 3, 120, 121, 127, 132–36, 143, 148, 150, 169, 172, 176–77, 181–83, 186–88, 190–92, 194–96, 203–4, 206, 208, 215, 218, 221–22, 232, 238, 242, 245–48, 250, 253, 255–60, 263, 265–68, 270, 272, 276, 279–82, 284–85, 287

  Van Susteren, Greta, 226–27, 284

  Variety, 105

  Venice Film Festival, 62

  Versace, Gianni, 228

  Vidal, Gore, 17–18, 26, 40, 104

  Vietnam War, 52, 63

  Vignale, Raymond, 66, 70

  Visconti, Luchino, 65, 281

  Vogue, 35–36, 52, 60, 207, 245

  Volney Hotel, 53, 54–55

  von Auersperg, Alexander, 144–45, 150

  von Auersperg, Alfred, 142, 144

  von Auerspberg, Annie-Laurie, 144–45, 150

  von Bülow, Claus, 115, 140, 141–48, 150, 163, 168–69, 181, 184, 191, 201, 204–5, 228, 275, 287, 288

  von Bülow, Cosima, 144, 145, 163

  von Bülow, Sunny, 115, 140–43, 146, 148, 203, 287

  von Dassanowsky, Robert, 229–30

  Wadler, Joyce, 142, 144, 146, 147

  Wald, Connie, 41, 96, 97, 280

  Walker, Robert, 174

  Wall Street Journal, 86, 236, 264

  Walters, Barbara, 196–97, 248

  Warhol, Andy, 64–65

  Warner Bros., 35, 39

  Washington Post, 86–87

  Wasserman, Steve, 228

  Watch Mr. Wizard, 24

  Watkins, Lily, 256. See also Safra, Lily

  Waugh, Evelyn, 18, 239

  Way We Lived Then, The (D. Dunne), 36, 253–54, 267

  Webb, Clifton, 90

  Weeks, Bonnie, 174

  Weeks, Steven, 238

  Weisberg, Stanley M., 4, 6, 186, 194, 197

  Weld, Tuesday, 49, 58–59, 155, 159

  Weller, Sheila, 212, 213

  Wesleyan University, 17, 18

  Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, 105

  White, Edmund, 243

  White, Peter, 47–48, 157

  White Album, The (Didion), 8, 52

  Whitman, Caroline, 109

  Wiatt, Jim, 245

  Wide Wide World, 25

  Wilder, Audrey, 34, 98

  Wilder, Billy, 36

  Wilkie, Angus, 281

  William Morris Agency, 58

  William Morrow and Company, 241

  Williams College, 18–20, 146

  Williams Record, 19

  Williwag (Vidal), 17

  Willoughby, Bob, 36

  Willwerth, James, 207, 223, 227, 229

  Wilton, 95, 102

  Winn, Kitty, 54–56, 158

  Winners, The (D. Dunne), 113–14, 132, 138, 170, 179–80, 205, 222. See also Joyce Haber’s “The Users,” Part 2

  Wintour, Anna, 245

  “Woman Who Knew Too Little, The” (D. Dunne), 135–37

  Women’s Wear Daily, 36, 93, 168–69, 170

  Wood, Natalie, 34, 37–38, 50, 51, 156, 174

  Woodward, Ann, 25, 78, 115, 255

  Woodward, Billy, 25, 115, 255

  Woodward, Elsie, 115, 122, 123

  Wyckes, Mary, 39

  Yale University, 12, 14

  Young, Loretta, 36, 139

  Young, William Baldwin, 247–48, 261


  Young Man with a Horn (Baker), 37

  Zanuck, Darryl F., 38, 53

  Zanuck, Richard, 53

  Zipkin, Jerry, 98, 171, 172, 173, 228

  Table of Contents

  Cover Page

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Dedication

  Contents

  1 - Father and Sondheim

  2 - Marriage and Puppets

  3 - Mengers and Disaster

  4 - Begelman and Purgatory

  5 - Capote and Suicide

  6 - Didions and Murder

  7 - Bloomingdales and Videotapes

  8 - Von Bülow and Comas

  9 - Novels and Payback

  10 - Kennedys and Cover-Ups

  11 - Menendez and Lies

  12 - O.J. and Parties

  13 - Princess Diana and Breakdowns

  14 - Skakels and Wills

  15 - Fuhrman and Libel

  16 - Apologies and Memoirs

  17 - Safra and Paranoia

  18 - Editors and E-mails

  19 - Spector and Sons

  20 - Clinics and Sondheim

  Acknowledgments

  Notes

  Bibliography

  Filmography

  Index

 

 

 


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