— “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.
— “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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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