ACCLAIMED AUTHOR DOMINICK DUNNE DEAD

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DOMINICK DUNNE DEAD AT 83
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Dominick Dunne

Famed author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels such as "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles," died Wednesday at his home in New York City. He was 83. Actor-director Griffin Dunne said in a statement released by Vanity Fair that his father had been battling bladder cancer for some time. But the cancer did not prevent Dunne from working. He continued appearing regularly on television and his Court TV, "Power, Privilege and Justice" was a huge hit with audiences. Among his other books were the 1993 "A Season in Purgatory," that helped revive interest in the 1975 slaying of teenager Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn. A Kennedy relative, Michael Skakel, was convicted in the killing in 2002. He also wrote "An Inconvenient Woman" and "The Mansions of Limbo."
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