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Done & Dunne

16: Interview with Dunne Biographer Robert Hofler, Part Two

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7628 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Last week, Alicia had a chance to talk to Robert Hofler, author of the 2017 Dunne biography Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne: A Life in Several Acts, for a far-ranging conversation about our man Nick. Hear the rest of this illuminating conversation about the man behind the books and TV's Power, Privilege, and Justice, our man Nick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0

Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this journey All Things Dominic Dunn.

0:36.6

This week, we are continuing with the second

0:38.5

part of our interview with Robert Hoffler, author of the wonderful Dominic Dunn biography,

0:44.7

Money, Murder, and Dominic Dunn, A Life in Several Acts. We will drop in to part two of the

0:50.8

conversation where we left off last week with Dominic coming back into Hollywood

0:55.4

and, right,

1:21.0

late 70s, early 80s, Oregon's it up, heads over to New York City is coming back for Dominique's trial, but also having

1:30.3

written the winners is beginning the two Mrs. Grenvilles, has a successful career for

1:38.4

Vanity Fair publishes two Mrs. Grenvilles. Goodness, a season in purgatory is coming out when OJ happens. So Dominic is

1:49.6

reclaimed into Hollywood, right? After almost two decades in a very different sort of way.

1:58.2

Well, before the OJ, there was the Menendez, and that was Eric and Lyle Menendez murdered their

2:06.0

parents. And Jose Menendez was a big movie executive. And Dominant covered their first trial. There were two trials, but he covered their first trial.

2:18.3

There were two trials, but he covered the first trial.

2:21.3

And I was living in Hollywood at the time.

2:25.3

And that Menendez story, because, you know, here again, we get into homosexuality,

2:31.3

but, you know, what made it so unbelievable is that the defense was

2:39.7

that the boys were defending themselves because the father was raping them. And so that just

2:46.4

galvanized everyone's attention on this, that here was this movie executive, you know, who

2:54.7

lived in Beverly Hills, and he and his wife were murdered by his sons, whom they said, was

3:00.6

abusing them sexually since they were little children. And Dominic never believed that defense.

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