In March 1984, Vanity Fair published “Justice: A Father’s Account of the Trial of His Daughter’s Killer.” Dad’s debut article about our legal odyssey and Sweeney’s light sentence caused such national outrage that Judge Katz was demoted to a lower court. Tina Brown knew from the moment his piece was submitted that Dominick Dunne had more than one story to tell, and she made him Vanity Fair’s star reporter.
