Poltergeist
1982
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Detective Harold Johnston of the Los Angeles Homicide Bureau told me that my twenty-two-year-old daughter, Dominique, was near death at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. I asked him if he had...
Feb 25, 2016 · Dominque Dunne, a young actress, was strangled by John Thomas Sweeney in 1982, five weeks after he assaulted her. Her father, Dominick Dunne, was a journalist who covered the O.J. Simpson trial and believed Simpson was guilty.
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Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the youngest child of Ellen Beatriz "Lenny" (née Griffin), a ranching heiress, and Dominick Dunne, a writer, producer, and actor. Dunne had Irish and Mexican ancestry, her father was born and raised in an Irish Catholic family with her maternal grandfather an Irish-American and her maternal ...
Actress: Poltergeist. Dominique Dunne was born in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Ellen Beatriz Griffin Dunne and Dominick Dunne, a producer, actor, and writer. Actor Griffin Dunne is her brother. After her parents' divorce, she moved first to New York, and then to Beverly Hills.
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In November 1982, his daughter, Dominique Dunne, best known for her part in the film Poltergeist, was murdered by strangulation. Dominick Dunne attended the trial of John Thomas Sweeney, Dominique's ex-boyfriend.
Sep 19, 2008 · Decades after Dominick Dunne made his VF debut covering his daughter’s murder trial, his son Griffin explores the tragedy from a new angle. By Radhika Jones Hollywood
