Dominick Dunne, author of crime stories, dies

Dominick Dunne, the former Hollywood producer and best-selling author known for his Vanity Fair articles on courtroom celebrities, died in NYC on Wednesday at the age of 83.

Dunne, who was also known as “Nick,” had discontinued writing his articles for Vanity Fair to concentrate on his final novel, “Too Much Money” when he died from bladder cancer.

Earlier this year his son, actor-director Griffin Dunne said his father had traveled to Germany and the Dominican Republic for experimental stem cell treatments to fight his cancer.

Dunne started his magazine writing career in 1982, after his 22-year-old daughter, Dominique Dunne, was murdered by her boyfriend, John Sweeney.

He later vented his anger at the legal system in the book, “Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of his Daughter’s Killer.”

Dunne was born in Hartford, Connecticut to a wealthy Roman Catholic family and grew up in the same social circles as the Kennedys.

He leaves his two sons, Alexander and Griffin.