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Aug 26 2009 5:23pm EDT

Dominick Dunne, Crime Reporter With a Novelist's Eye, Is Dead at 83

Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair's longtime chronicler of celebrity crime, has died. He was 83 and had been suffering from bladder cancer.

Dunne, who started his career as a film and television producer, became a journalist in 1984 by covering the murder trial of his own daughter, Dominique. Dunne's speciality was the intersection of wealth and crime: He covered the trials of the Menendez brothers, William Kennedy Smith, Phil Spector, and most famously O.J. Simpson.

Last year, the New York Times caught up with Dunne as he covered Simpson's Las Vegas, Nevada, trial for armed robbery and kidnapping. “An O. J. case is the perfect capper because he’s been such a part of my life for 13 years,” Dunne told the Times' Steve Friess. "I had a literary following before, but because of O. J. I became a name and a public person, which I love…. I think it would be a fitting way to end."

The writer parlayed that public persona into a television-hosting gig on Court TV (now know as TruTV) with the series Power, Privilege, and Justice, a title that perfectly summed up his journalistic area of expertise.

Matt Haber is the media blogger for Portfolio.com.

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