• Dominick Dunne's Connecticut estate was put up for sale in early October and has been reduced by more than $500,000 since then. (It's currently listed for $1.49 million.) Now the late Vanity Fair scribe's Manhattan apartment has hit the market. The one-bedroom penthouse at 155 East 49th Street, which comes with an…
• Did you catch dethroned beauty queen Carrie Prejean's hissy fit on Larry King Live last night? It was awkward TV at its finest. [TMZ, YouTube]
• Mike Tyson had a meltdown of his own yesterday. When a paparazzo got a little too close for comfort at LAX, Tyson dropped the photog to the floor with one punch to the…
Dominick Dunne—chronicler of crime and society, best-selling author, Vanity Fair contributor, and cable television host—died in August after a long battle with cancer. His weekend house in Connecticut is now up for sale. The three-bedroom home in Lyme, which was once featured in Architecural Digest (above) and which, …
Twitter's all about self-promotion. This we know. MC Hammer knows that, too, and apparently has been quite successful at it, which explains why Gravity Summit invited him to keynote this week's social media conference at Harvard.
An odd line in the Times obit of Dominick Dunne seems to suggest that the late writer's family wanted to delay the announcement of his death in order to make sure it wasn't overshadowed.
Dominick Dunne, chronicler of crime, celebrity, and the intersection of the two, has died at 83. Dunne had been suffering from bladder cancer.
Dominick Dunne—best-selling author, special correspondent for Vanity Fair, television commentator, former film producer, and chronicler of Hollywood's dark side—died today of cancer at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. A tribute by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is here. [VF]
After spending 28 years in a coma, heiress Sunny von Bülow, 76, has died, according to the NYT. She was first discovered unconscious on the floor of her Newport, R.I., mansion in 1980, and her husband Claus von Bulow was convicted, but later acquitted, of attempting to murder her with an insulin injection. With…
♦ A long list of celebs have been involved in a last-minute effort to get out the vote for Obama, including Oprah, Diddy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Edie Falco, John McEnroe, Mary J. Blige, Russell Simmons, Beyonce, and Jay-Z. In the elderly celebrity writer department, Vanity Fair's Dominick Dunne…
Dominick Dunne is 83 years old today. New Yorker editor David Remnick is 50. Winona Ryder is turning 37. Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, is 51. Art gallerist Mary Boone turns 57. Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 61. Gabrielle Union is 36. Olympic swimmer-turned-swimsuit model Amanda Beard turns 27. Actress…
♦ Vanity Fair's Dominick Dunne was taken to a Las Vegas hospital today after he fell ill while watching the O.J. Simpson trial. [AP]
♦ People.com passed TMZ last month for the first time with 11.5 million visitors, thanks to pics of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborns. [WWD]
♦ Hard to believe it if you've been…
Fantastic news, America-our constitutional right to repeatedly call a man a murderer has been upheld! Former congressmen Gary Condit, who allegedly caused 9/11 (j/k Gary!) sued Vanity Fair scribe Dominick Dunne for defamation, because Dunne kept claiming he knew that Condit knew stuff he wasn't telling about the…
1) The first New York benefit of the Young Patrons Circle of the Friends of the Louvre took place Tuesday night at Espace: Devoted socials like Olivia Chantecaille, Fabiola Beracasa, Alexandra Papanicalaou, Lisa Anastos, Annabel Vartanian, Melissa Berkelhammer, and Devorah Rose bid on photographer Candida Hofer's…
"Recently diagnosed with bladder cancer after a previous battle with prostate cancer, [Vanity Fair columnist Dominick] Dunne finds himself more motivated than ever to finish A Solo Act, his long-awaited next novel... 'I'm back on it full-time — that's my life now until I finish... I'm fine. I go out to lunch every day…
Investigative reporter and gadfly Dominick Dunne was a columnist at Graydon Carter' Vanity Fair and the host of CourtTV's Power, Privilege and Justice. He was also an author (People Like Us, The Two Mrs. Grenvilles), erstwhile movie producer (1970's The Boys in the Band), and former addict. His son is actor/director…
From the Golden Globes after-party thrown by the Weinstein Company. Actually it's Dominick Dunne who might have thought this was the Oscars, and that he was at the Vanity Fair party, and that Paris Hilton was Hedy Lamarr.
Update: Did you know there's a guy named Dominic Dunn who is an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT OLD DUDE WITH…
Last time we checked, writers got paid shit, and no one was reading anything besides US Weekly. Nevertheless, the honorable folks over at The Moth have set up a reading series so successful that they've managed to parlay it into a national tour, a mentoring program, and a functional charity. Their annual Moth Ball…
There's been a rumor floating around medialand this afternoon that VF scribe Dominick Dunne — celebrity, friend to celebrities, chronicler of celebrity trials — had a heart attack last night. The version we heard even ended with an ominous "and he's not doing well." But we're now able to tell you that the report of…
· Dominick Dunne, distressed over the Gary Condit lawsuit, cancels public appearances. [Page Six]
· Vogue is featuring plus-size model Mia Tyler in its April issue. [Ed. note"plus-size model"? Are we sure Anna knows about this?] [Page Six]
· The pot haze at Guastavino's was pretty thick on Sunday, but Presidential…
