Dominick Dunne

Birth Name:
Dominick John Dunne
Birth Date:
October 29, 1925
Birth Place:
Hartford, Connecticut
Death Date:
August 26, 2009
Place of Death:
155 E. 49th Street, New York City, New York
Age:
83
Cause of Death:
Bladder cancer
Cemetery Name:
Hadlyme Cove Cemetery
Claim to Fame:
Writers and Poets
Associates:
Dominick Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He started as a producer in film and television, and is noted for involvement with the pioneering gay film The Boys in the Band (1970) and the award-winning drug film The Panic in Needle Park (1971). He turned to writing in the early 1970s. After the 1982 murder of his daughter Dominique, he came to focus on the ways in which wealth and high society interacts with the judicial system. Famous trials he covered included those of O.J. Simpson, Claus von Bulow, Michael Skakel, William Kennedy Smith, and the Menendez brothers. Dunne was a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, from the 1980s, and also appeared regularly on television discussing crime.

“I have always been intrigued by the kind of people who call their lawyers before they call the police after a murder. It is a rich-people thing.”
– Dominick Dunne

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Hadlyme Cove Cemetery

89B Ferry Road

Lyme, Connecticut, 06371

USA

North America

Grave Location:

Dominick Dunne Plot

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery through the wood gate, veer to the right and walk 100 feet to his final resting place.

Grave Location GPS

41.42087138, -72.42301349

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Videos Featuring Dominick Dunne:
Dominick Dunne: After The Party
Dominick Dunne: After the Party (2008) Official Trailer #1
Dominick Dunne on the death of his daughter
Deadly Fame Series 1 Episode 5: Dominique Dunne
Dominick Dunne - The Way We Lived Then - Part 1
Dominick Dunne - The Way We Lived Then - Part 2
Dominick Dunne - The Way We Lived Then - Part 3
Griffin Dunne on his father, Dominick Dunne
Dominick Dunne: After The Party - Sinatra

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