Her father, Dominick Dunne, was a crime journalist who covered the Menendez brothers' trial In 1982, Dominique Dunne's career was on the rise, with her role in the supernatural hit, Poltergeist, but ...

Best-selling author, journalist and Connecticut gadfly Dominick Dunne has died. He was 83. His son, actor-director Griffin Dunne, said that his father had been battling bladder cancer for some time.