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U.K. slash Wondery. That's audible.com.uk slash Wondery. Welcome to Dunn and Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey All Things Dominic Dunn. Thanks for joining me today. In this episode, we're going to go on a very different

kind of voyage with Dominic Dunn. We've heard a lot about his Vanity Fair articles, and we'll hear

more about them, as well as his novels in future episodes. But there was a super fun little

magical side project that you may be familiar with called power, privilege, and justice.

Our man Nick was the host for this American television series, which for nine seasons from 2002

to Nick's death in 2009 examines cases of crime, passion, and greed among the upper crust

in a nifty 40- or so minute format. When Nick is approached for this project,

the Justice Warrior himself is thrilled to be finding a new audience through the medium of television

where he originally started as a production assistant all those years ago. He will call himself

privately Alistair Hitchcock, combining two classic storytellers, Alistair Cook, and Alfred Hitchcock,

into Dominic's own blend of his narrator character. Covering privileged people in criminal situations,

this is his wheelhouse. Some of the cases profiled within the power privilege and justice

television series, Nick will also write about

for Vanity Fair. Some he will write fictional accounts of within his novels and then some episodes.

Like the case we're covering today, stand alone. Dominic does not write about the case or the trial,

which take place in the mid-1970s.

Remember, Dominic right now is busy bottoming himself out in Hollywood in his last days of drug

and alcohol addiction. This case is special to him, however, he knows the players involved,

which might prompt its coverage on power privilege and justice in its

sixth season. airing originally on Court TV, February 6, 2006, the episode titled The Starlet

and the Skier examines the criminal case that rocked the town of Aspen, Colorado, in the early 1970s, when the ex-wife of

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