Actress Lana Turner was one of the many famous faces who embraced Dominick when he first made Hollywood his home in the mid-1950s. His timing was impeccable; a few short years after the Dunnes moved to Los Angeles, Lana Turner was caught up in the scandalous killing of her gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato.

Sources:

The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper, by Dominick Dunne (amazon.com)

Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner (amazon.com)

Lana: The Lady, The Legend, The Truth, by Lana Turner (amazon.com)

LANA: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies, by Cheryl Crane and Cindy De La Hoz (amazon.com)

Detour: A Hollywood Story, by Cheryl Crane and Cliff Jahr (amazon.com)

Blonde Ambition, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com)

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