Dominick Dunne, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and best-selling author, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan after battling bladder cancer. He was 83.
Dunne began working at the magazine in 1984 as a contributing editor and later became a special correspondent, chronicling the courtroom battles of high society members and celebrities like O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector.
In recent years, he wrote a monthly column with his thoughts on high society. He also penned in-depth profiles for the magazine on personalities like Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beaty and Imelda Marcos.
Some of his most famous pieces of writing for the magazine included a piece about the Menendez brothers and his ruminations on the Robert Blake murder.