Dominick John Dunne was born on October 29, 1925 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut United States to Richard Edwin Dunne and Dorothy Frances Dunne, and had siblings Richard Edwin Dunne, Harriet Anne Hutchinson, Virginia Marie Finley, John Gregory Dunne, and Stephen Burns Dunne. He married Ellen Beatriz Dunne on April 24, 1954 in Arizona and they later divorced in 1965. He had children Thomas Griffin Dunne, Alexander L. Dunne, Dominique Dunne, Dominique Ellen Dunne, and Beatriz Dunne. Dominick Dunne died at age 83 years old on August 26, 2009 in New York, New York, and was buried in September 2009 at Cove Cemetery - in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dominick John Dunne.