198 “It’s a curious stand”: George Rush and Joanna Molloy, “Contempt Citation Refuels Dunne-ybrook,” Daily News, March 5, 1997.
— “After that my brother and I”: Dominick Dunne, “Death in the Family,” Vanity Fair, May 2003.
Chapter 12
Quotes from Dan Abrams (August 7, 2015), Marie Brenner (October 19, 2015), Tita Cahn (March 5, 2015), Robert von Dassanowsky (August 26, 2015), Alan Dershowitz (February 25, 2016), Linda Deutsch (February 23, 2015), Patti Jo Fairbanks (March 12, 2015), Heidi Fleiss (March 18, 2015), Lucianne Goldberg (February 21, 2015), Kim Goldman (August 12, 2015), Art Harris (April 3, 2015), Judy Hilsinger (January 29, 2015), Peter Hong (May 2, 2015), John Johnson (November 30, 2015), Beth Karas (February 26, 2015), Sherry Lansing (April 30, 2015), Shoreen Maghame (April 29, 2015), David Margolick (November 9, 2015), Clifford McCormick (December 1, 2015), Shirley Perlman (March 31, 2015), Joan Ransohoff (March 22, 2016), Ira Reiner (February 20, 2016), Lawrence Schiller (March 18, 2015), Ronald G. Shipp (February 23, 2015), Wendy Stark (April 8, 2016), Jeffrey Toobin (April 23, 2015), and James Willwerth (March 13, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted. Because Another City, Not My Own is a novel, author checked the accuracy of quotes with those people “interviewed” for the book.
200 “No, not really”: Maghame to author.
— “Lucky for him”: D. Dunne, Another City, Not My Own, 11.
201 “For ten minutes, O.J.”: Dominic Dunne: In Search of Justice.
— “The Kennedys hate me”: McCormick to author.
202 “Did you plant the glove”: Jeffrey Toobin, “An Incendiary Defense,” New Yorker, July 25, 1994.
— “You’ll like Jeffrey”: D. Dunne, Another City, Not My Own, 35.
— “He sounds like Oliver North”: Toobin, The Run of His Life, 146.
— “After a while [Fuhrman] began”: Ibid., 147.
— “The Fuhrman disability case”: Ibid., 149.
203 Clark on EDTA: O.J.: Made in America.
— “Look, if the police did something”: Dershowitz to author.
204 Mrs. Peck being pretentious and superior: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
— “America’s most famous journalist”: New York cover, June 23, 2003.
— “Stanley thought you”: D. Dunne, Another City, Not My Own, 191–92.
— “People waited for those”: Mike Hogan, “How Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne Relentlessly Pursued the O.J. Simpson Story,” Vanity Fair online, March 1, 2016.
205 “had the curious look”: Dominick Dunne, “L.A. in the Age of O.J.,” Vanity Fair, February 1995.
— “Please don’t ask Marcia”: D. Dunne, Another City, Not My Own, 54.
— strong female attorneys: Dominick Dunne, “Justice,” Vanity Fair, March 1984.
— “Everyone was looking”: Mike Hogan, “What Drove Dominick Dunne’s Quest for Justice,” Vanity Fair, November 2009.
207 Neil Papiano: D. Dunne, Another City, Not My Own, 133.
— “It was the most bizarre”: Karas to author.
208 “He wasn’t looking to be”: Dan Abrams, “Dominick Dunne,” Huffington Post, September 26, 2009.
— “O.J.’s lawyers”/“If you’re on the defense”: Guilty Pleasure.
— “I love being famous”: Several sources to author.
— John Bryan and Michael Moore episodes: Perlman to author.
209 “Judith Krantz in pants”: D. Dunne, Another City, Not My Own, 71.
— “Rastafarian”: Hong to author.
210 “Why are we sitting”: Goldman to author.
211 “To be honest, Shipp”: Shipp to author.
— “about as relevant”: Court transcript.
— “I think that I have never”: D. Dunne, Justice, 173.
212 “I guess you can say”: Court transcript.
— “Were you prepared”: Ibid.
— “Black journalists in the newsroom”: Clark, Without a Doubt, 289.
— “The jury should see”: Dominick Dunne, “Follow the Blood,” Vanity Fair, July 1995.
213 “Sometimes I think Al Cowlings”: Dominick Dunne, “Was O.J. Simpson a Loving Father and Brother, or a Cold-Blooded Killer?,” Vanity Fair, September 1995.
215 “In the flesh, Mark Fuhrman”: Toobin, The Run of His Life, 312.
216 “What’s it going to be like”: Dominick Dunne, “The ‘N’ Word,” Vanity Fair, November 1995.
— “I know that”: Goldman to author.
— “to argue our right to view”: Dominick Dunne, “If the Gloves Fit . . . ,” Vanity Fair, August 1995.
— “What was the most haunting”: Ibid.
217 “He went almost insane”: Hogan, “How Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne.”
Chapter 13
Quotes from Dan Abrams (August 7, 2015), Robert “Buzz” Berger (February 16, 2015), Tita Cahn (March 5, 2015), Robert von Dassanowsky (August 26, 2015), Linda Deutsch (February 23, 2015), Alex Dunne (May 21, 2015), Patti Jo Fairbanks (March 12, 2015), Art Harris (April 3, 2015), Shoreen Maghame (April 29, 2015), David Margolick (November 9, 2015), Shirley Perlman (March 31, 2015), Joan Ransohoff (March 22, 2016), Lawrence Schiller (March 18, 2015), Wendy Stark (April 8, 2016), and James Willwerth (March 13, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted.
218 Nation of Islam guards: Dominick Dunne, “London Calling (and Dishing),” Vanity Fair, June 2005.
— “I have to leave Los Angeles”: Abrams to author.
219 “camp”: Briscoe journal, 1995.
— Diana’s revenge dress: Rebecca Adams, “Princess Di’s Black Dress,” Huffington Post, July 1, 2013.
220 “Because I couldn’t get a job”: Berger to author.
— “When you write you do”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “Get your daughter”: Berger to author; Grobel, Signing In, 422.
— $50,000 a day: O.J.: Made in America.
221 “restart his life. . . . But I couldn’t help thinking”: Dominick Dunne, “O.J. Simpson: Life after the Murder Trial,” Vanity Fair, December 1995; D. Dunne, Justice, 205.
— “I knew she was flipping”: Grobel, Signing In, 423.
222 “Schiller specialized in”: Toobin, The Run of His Life, 253–54.
— “hate-filled tidbits”: Ibid., 400.
— “I want to put you”: Schiller to author.
223 “If only he’d broken”: A. Dunne to author.
— “Did you see that?”: Deutsch to author.
224 “During the nine months”: Dan Abrams, “Dominick Dunne,” Huffington Post, September 26, 2009.
— “I’m not sure you want”: Perlman to author.
— “Everyone’s been to a party”: “O.J. Reporters Romp in Hot Tub,” New York Post, September 28, 1995.
— “No one had anticipated”: Clark, Without a Doubt, 276.
— Lawson in Savannah: Mike Hogan, “How Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne Relentlessly Pursued the O.J. Simpson Story,” Vanity Fair online, March 1, 2016.
225 “NBC had forty cameras”: Toobin, The Run of His Life, 429.
— “Stop crying”/“What happened”: Maghame to author.
226 Griffin Dunne saw his father’s: Hogan, “How Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne.”
— “I’m not myself”: Harris to author.
— CNN interview: D. Dunne, Another City, Not My Own, 310.
227 “I look like a small-mouth”: Ransohoff to author.
— “I beg you, let”: Hogan, “How Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne.”
— Griffin Dunne on Another City: Griffin Dunne (January 21, 2015) to author.
228 “way of ridding myself”: Briscoe letter, July 20, 1998.
— “thoroughly absorbing”: James Collins, “L.A. Confidential,” Time, November 17, 1997.
— “numbing”: Laura Miller, “O.J. the Novel,” New York Times, November 30, 1997.
— “fuckin’ liar”: Celia McGee, “Dunne In,” New York Observer, January
26, 1998.
— “I am not aware of any”: Ibid.
229 “You put a murderer”: Cahn to author; Stark to author.
— “They’ll have to get”: Fairbanks to author.
— “staged”: Willwerth to author.
230 “I’m very aware that”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “No, it’s not that kind”: Dassanowsky to author.
231 “but an idealized fantasy fulfillment”: Robert von Dassanowsky, “The Inconvenient Women: Female Consciousness and the American Gentry in the Novels of Dominick Dunne,” Popular Culture Review 8, no. 1 (February 1997): 35–47 (38).
— “prevailing modes of male-dominant”: Ibid., 44–45.
Chapter 14
Quotes from Robert “Buzz” Berger (February 16, 2015), Alex Dunne (May 21, 2015), Lucianne Goldberg (February 21, 2015), Len Levitt (March 4, 2015), and Dorthy Moxley (March 3, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted.
233 “speculative report”: Briscoe letter, undated; Moxley to author.
— “Dorthy, I know who”/“I haven’t read it”/“this huge mess”: Moxley to author.
— “My only motivation”: Chris Smith, “Dominick Dunne vs. Robert Kennedy,” New York, June 23, 2003.
234 “I first heard about”: Levitt, Conviction, 204.
— Goldberg arranged: Dominick Dunne, “Triumph by Jury,” Vanity Fair, August 2002.
— “Hey, Mark, I’ve got”: Fuhrman, Murder in Greenwich, xiv.
235 “After you heard from Dorthy”: Levitt, Conviction, 204.
— “In time I gave”/“I felt as though a giant”/“Writers, they’re all”: Ibid.
— “If I had Dr. Kervorkian’s”: A. Dunne to author.
236 “I’m sorry, Lenny”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— Lenny and Dominick Dunne’s final meeting/“Do you remember”: Griffin Dunne, Fresh Air interview, December 15, 2009.
— Alex and Dominick Dunne altercation: Briscoe letter, October 2, 1999; A. Dunne to author.
Chapter 15
Quotes from Dan Abrams (August 7, 2015), Barry Avrich (March 25, 2015), Graydon Carter (March 9, 2016), Laura Nappi Connolly (February 26, 2015), Jack Cummings III (February 8, 2015), Jack Donahue (March 2, 2015), Timothy Dumas (April 7, 2015), Lucianne Goldberg (February 21, 2015), Jesse Kornbluth (April 23, 2015), Len Levitt (March 4, 2015), Asa Maynor (October 6, 2015), Chris Morano (July 28, 2015), Dorthy Moxley (March 3, 2015), Kevin Sessums (March 26, 2015), Mickey Sherman (August 12, 2015), Liz Smith (November 4, 2015), Edmund White (February 17, 2016), and William Baldwin Young (March 18, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted.
237 Fuhrman conversations with Garr and Levitt: Levitt, Conviction, 101.
— “Somebody wants to write”: Moxley to author.
238 “Mrs. Moxley, don’t ever do”: Levitt, Conviction, 208.
— “I invited several local cops”: Dominick Dunne, “Trial of Guilt,” Vanity Fair, October 2000.
— Fuhrman would name Michael: Levitt, Conviction, 206.
— “Where can we get a beer”: Morano to author.
239 “They spent a quarter-million”: Morano to author.
— “I have to fill out a report”: Morano to author.
— “Nick, Michael Skakel’s writing”/“Michael, what are you”: Morano to author.
241 “The guy’s name at the deli”: Goldberg to author.
— “You’re so famous I’m afraid”: Goldberg to author.
— “Dunne gave Frank Garr”: Fuhrman, Murder in Greenwich, 63.
242 “I firmly believe that his”: D. Dunne, “Trial of Guilt.”
— grand jury stayed in session: Levitt, Conviction, 231.
— “We always have a few laughs”: Dominick Dunne, “Tabloid Trouble,” Vanity Fair, March 2002.
243 “Now, some of this I can’t”: Laura Ingraham Show, radio transcript, December 20, 2001.
— “hook, line, and sinker”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
244 “He went on the air”: Ibid.
— “I have something to show” and other direct quotes to Avrich from D. Dunne: Avrich to author.
— “how often you come”: D. Dunne letter, September 7, 2001, Robert Rand collection.
245 “I can’t do it”/“Larry wouldn’t be”: Avrich to author.
— “We’re going to take care”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “indemnify” his client: Briscoe letter, July 1, 2004.
— Jim Wiatt intervene: Briscoe letter, January 26, 2005.
— Anna Wintour at Vogue: Briscoe letter, undated.
— “Later, Graydon said”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “shrugs off the Condit case”/“We’ve had huge lawsuits”: Chris Smith, “Dominick Dunne vs. Robert Kennedy,” New York, June 23, 2003.
246 “I’ve had prostate cancer”: Ibid.
— “Rudolph Giuliani had better”: Dominick Dunne, “Murder Most Unforgettable,” Vanity Fair, April 2001.
— “Not really”: Maynor to author.
— “I can’t go back”: Anonymous sources to author.
247 $3,500 for two nights: Briscoe journal, 2005.
— “I’m a star at this”: Mike Hogan, “What Drove Dominick Dunne’s Quest for Justice,” Vanity Fair, November 2009.
— “Where is my special treatment?!”: Anonymous sources to author.
248 “Fuck ’em”: Cummings to author.
— Brown and Madonna canceled: Briscoe letters, undated.
— year-end bonus: Briscoe journal, 2005.
— $500,000/speaking fees of $25,000: Briscoe letter, January 26, 2005.
— “Lear on the heath”/“haywire”: Anonymous sources to author.
— $90,000 a month: Briscoe letter, January 26, 2005.
249 “major misalliance”: Ibid.
Chapter 16
Quotes from Linda Deutsch (February 23, 2015), Timothy Dumas (April 7, 2015), Beth Karas (February 26, 2015), Len Levitt (March 4, 2015), Chris Morano (July 28, 2015), Dorthy Moxley (March 3, 2015), Mickey Sherman (August 12, 2015), and Ronald G. Shipp (February 23, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted.
250 “The jury isn’t looking”: Mike Hogan, “Michael Skakel Retrial Order Would Have Infuriated Dominick Dunne,” Vanity Fair online, October 24, 2013.
251 “Mark, you can’t”: Levitt, Conviction, 226.
— white stretch limousine: Kennedy, Framed, 225.
— “We’re friends”: Ibid.
— “Ron, I gave this stuff”/“Everything is good”: Shipp to author.
252 “Chris, why did you”: Morano to author.
— “Jerk”: Dominick Dunne, “Triumph by Jury,” Vanity Fair, August 2002.
— “irresponsible”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “The formula that Dominick”: Chris Smith, “Dominick Dunne v. Robert Kennedy,” New York, June 23, 2003.
— “I do not know that Ken”: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “A Miscarriage of Justice,” Atlantic Monthly, January 2003.
253 “‘Gossip’ is an icky”: Dominick Dunne: In Search of Justice.
— “a gossip”: C. Smith, “Dominick Dunne v. Robert Kennedy.”
— “little shit”: Dominick Dunne: After the Party.
— “If Michael had kept”: D. Dunne, “Triumph by Jury.”
— Dunne and Levitt outside courthouse: Dumas, Greentown, 312.
— “time to go to his son’s”: Levitt, Conviction, 243.
— “I want you to know”/“That’s true”: Levitt to author.
254 “tripping on acid”: Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 183.
— “God, help this man”: Ibid., 186.
— “sordid gay murder”: Briscoe journal, 1979–80.
254 “friends” disparaged: Ibid., 207.
— “that made me cringe”: Dunne, The Way We Lived Then, 207.
— scalding criticism, while Joan: Bris
coe letter, November 29, 1979.
Chapter 17
Quotes from Graydon Carter (March 9, 2016), Mia Certic (August 11, 2015), Joe Danisi (April 15, 2015), Michael Griffith (February 1, 2016), Jesse Kornbluth (April 23, 2015), Donald Manasse (August 24, 2015), Mickey Sherman (August 12, 2015), and Liz Smith (November 4, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted.
255 “This show better be”: Danisi to author.
— Michael Skakel spent eleven: Mike Hogan, “Michael Skakel Retrial Order Would Have Infuriated Dominick Dunne,” Vanity Fair online, October 24, 2013.
256 end of Safra articles: Briscoe journal, 2005; several sources to author.
— “confession in a language”: Dominick Dunne, “Another Party, Another Clue,” Vanity Fair, March 2001.
— “FBI to expose the Russian”: Dominick Dunne, “A Playboy’s Last Act,” Vanity Fair, September 2001.
257 Alfredo Monteverde died: D. Dunne, “Another Party, Another Clue.”
— Safra had rewritten his will: Dominick Dunne, “Crime after Crime,” Vanity Fair, October 2001.
— “The damnation of Ted Maher”: Dominick Dunne, “Death in Monaco,” Vanity Fair, December 2000.
— “a sunny place”: Ibid.
258 chief rabbi episode: Certic to author; Griffith to author; Manasse to author.
— “I ran out of the courtroom”: Manasse to author.
— “What do you think”: Certic to author.
259 “Mike, I better move”: Griffith to author.
— “Where are we”/“I just don’t know”: Certic to author.
260 “Maybe I was being”: Chris Smith, “Dominick Dunne vs. Robert F. Kennedy,” New York, June 23, 2003.
— Dominick asked Liz Smith: Briscoe letter, October 20, 2006; L. Smith to author.
— “truth went to the grave”: “Murder in Monaco,” Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege, and Justice, February 8, 2008.
Chapter 18
Quotes from Norman Carby (May 23, 2015), Graydon Carter (March 9, 2016), Jack Cummings III (February 8, 2015), Jack Donahue (March 2, 2015), Alex Dunne (May 21, 2015), Michael Griffith (February 1, 2016), David Kuhn (August 25, 2015), Jeffrey Toobin (April 23, 2015), Matt Tyrnauer (January 9, 2016), and William Baldwin Young (March 18, 2015) are from interviews with the author, except where noted.
261 “I hate that person”: Young to author.
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