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Dominick Dunne – Modern Day Truman Capote?
I don’t know how many of our readers remember Gary Condit — if you’re anything like me, you’re political memory tends to get fuzzy prior to the most previous elections. Anyway, he’s that California congressman who had the intern, Chandra Levy, who disappeared in 2001. He may or may not have had an affair with Levy. Her body, at any rate, reappeared in 2002, though as far as I know, her murder/abduction is unsolved.
Anyway, in December 2001, writer and investigative journalist, Dominick Dunne, suggested that Condit actually was involved in the disappearance of Levy and that Condit frequented Middle-Eastern sex parties. He also implied that Levy was abducted at the behest of Condit. Subsequently, Condit sued Dunne for libel, which Dunne settled for an undisclosed sum.
Well, now four years later, Condit is at it again. As reported in the New York Daily News, Dunne said on CNN’s Larry King Show last year that Condit “knows more about what did happen than he has ever said” and that Condit “knew that Levy was going to be killed.” Condit, in turn, has sued Dunne for libel, asking for $75,000 in compensatory damages and unspecified punitives.
If you don’t recall, it was also Dominick Dunne who, with the help of Mark Furhman, broke the Martha Moaxley/Skakel case. And, given Dunne’s pedigree, I have no doubt that Dunne is on the right in this case as well. All I know is that I’m totally looking forward to those depositions … I’m totally hoping this case will be the next In Cold Blood.
