"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Dominick Dunne, the former Hollywood producer and best-selling author known for his Vanity Fair essays on the courtroom travails of the rich and famous, died Wednesday in New York city after a long battle with bladder cancer.
Dominick Dunne wrote five best selling books and covered high society crimes for Vanity Fair.
Dunne, who described himself as "a high-class Zelig," was 83.
Called "Nick" by his friends, Dunne was putting the finishing touches on his final novel, which he said he planned to call "Too Much Money," when his health took a turn for the worse.
He flew to Germany earlier this month for another round of stem cell treatments at the same Bavarian clinic where the late Farrah Fawcett was treated. He was hospitalized upon his return to New York, then sent home.
As a correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, Dunne was a fixture at some of the most famous trials of our times -- Claus von Bulow, William
Kennedy Smith, the Menendez brothers, O.J. Simpson,
Michael Skakel and Phil Spector."
CNNAlso of note:
"Famed pop songwriter Ellie Greenwich dead at 68
by Leah Greenblatt
Categories: News, Phil Spector, R.I.P.
Brooklyn-born Eleanor Louise Greenwich, a Brill Building songwriter and producer perhaps best known for collaborations with Phil Spector on Wall of Sound powerhouses like the Ronettes “Be My Baby,†Ike & Tina Turner’s “River Deep, Mountain High,†and the Crystals’ “Da Doo Ron Ron,†passed away today in New York City.
Her ability to convey both the rapture and heartbreak of young love in music proved transcendant; the unbridled joy in the Crystals’ “Then He Kissed Me†and abject sadness in the Ronettes’ “I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine†come through as clearly today as they did forty years ago.
Alongside writing partner and husband Jeff Barry, Greenwich penned a stream of ’60s hits, including early rebel-girl classic “Leader of the Pack,†“Chapel of Love,†and “Do Wah Diddy,†and produced much of Neil Diamond’s early work (she is often credited with helping him get his start), including “Cherry Cherry†and “Kentucky Woman.â€
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