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DUNNE'S TRIALS FROM HARTFORD TO HOLLYWOOD TO HADLYME WITH A WRITER WHO'S KNOWN THE PEAK OF FAME AND DESPAIR'S DEEPEST TROUGH
[STATEWIDE Edition]
Hartford Courant - Hartford, Conn.
Author: BOB SUDYK Bob Sudyk last wrote about Maria M. Perez, producer of ``Gullah Gullah Island,'' for Northeast.
Date: May 24, 1998
Start Page: 11
Section: NORTHEAST
Text Word Count: 5501
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The high walls are papered with large signed photographs and magazine covers of television and movie industry celebrities, world politicians and European royalty with whom Dunne schmoozes and noshes in Beverly Hills and New York. On the wall, just above his word processor, are pictures of O. J. Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. On another wall hang framed book jackets, all Dunne bestsellers that were turned into television miniseries.

Dunne and author Joe McGinniss were the only two reporters to have permanent, front row, court-assigned seats during the trial. Dunne sat next to the Goldman family and was on camera every day, in Vanity Fair every month, and on television regularly with Dan Rather, Larry King and Charlie Rose.

Dunne regaled them with his trademark inside scoops: that O.J.'s father was gay and had left the family to become a drag queen; that defense attorney F. Lee Bailey wore lifts in his cowboy boots to make him taller; that Simpson defense lawyer Barry Scheck was "haunted" by the Goldman family, and told Dunne, "I can't look at them. In every job there are things to do you don't like to do. I'm defending this guy."

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