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Hollywood titan's haunting deathbed secret that he feared would blow up his Poltergeist actress daughter's murder trial - and left him on the brink of suicide
Griffin Dunne has revealed his father was haunted by secrets he feared would shame his family, and lead to his daughter's killer escaping justice. It wasn't until after his death that he discovered the truth.
As the dreaded trial approached, the soon-to-be bold new editor of Vanity Fair Tina Brown encouraged Dunne to write a journal during the harrowing proceedings. In The Friday Afternoon Club, Griffin - best known for his roles in American Werewolf in London and, most recently, The Girls on the Bus - writes that only when his father was on his deathbed, dying of bladder cancer, did he discover that he’d had a 30-year affair with one of Dominique’s best friends, many years his junior. Dunne's account of the trial had, just as Tina Brown promised, been published, and he became a star reporter for Vanity Fair, covering other high-profile criminal cases, including those of the Menendez brothers and OJ Simpson.
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