Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice
{{Short description|US crime television series}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Dominick Dunne PPJ logo.jpg
| caption =
| genre = True crime
| presenter = Dominick Dunne
| narrated =
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons =
| list_episodes =
| executive_producer =
| producer = David Cargill
David Connelly
Joseph Peicott
Patrick Shea
Patrick Taulère
| director = Patrick Taulère
David Cargill
| runtime = 48 mins.
| channel = truTV
| first_aired = {{Start date|2002|06|19}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2009|09|25}}
| num_episodes = 62
}}
Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice is an American true crime television series that examines real-life cases of crime, passion, and greed involving privileged or famous people. The episodes were shown on truTV (formerly Court TV) and on Star TV in Canada as well as Zone Reality/CBS Reality in Europe and Bio. in Australia. The host of the show was Dominick Dunne. The series started in 2002 and ended in late 2009 with Dunne's death. Digital multicaster Justice Network currently shows reruns of the program.
List of episodes
=Season 1=
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|EpisodeNumber = 1 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Death Do Us Part |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|06|19}} |ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 2 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Billionaire Boys Club |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|06|26}} |ShortSummary = The Billionaire Boys Club, a social club and Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Joe Hunt, is profiled. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 3 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = A Scandal in Hunt County |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|06|26}} |ShortSummary = Heiress Susan Cummings is charged in the shooting death of her polo player boyfriend, Roberto Villegas. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 4 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Miami Vices |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|07|03}} |ShortSummary = Young Miami socialite Joyce Cohen plots to have her husband, Stanley Cohen, murdered. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 5 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Unbridled Greed |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|07|17}} |ShortSummary = The suspicious death of racehorse Alydar reveals the financial troubles at Calumet Farm. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 6 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Mystery in the Hamptons |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|07|24}} |ShortSummary = The secrets of Wall Street securities analyst are exposed when he is charged with killing his wife. }} |
=Season 2=
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|EpisodeNumber = 7 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Brothers in Arms |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|12|30}} |ShortSummary = Brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez are accused of shotgun murders of their wealthy parents in Beverly Hills. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 8 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Maternal Instincts |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|01|15}} |ShortSummary = The drug-addicted girlfriend of a DuPont heiress's son is found murdered in a seedy Las Vegas motel room. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 9 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Gentleman's Agreement |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|01|22}} |ShortSummary = The owner of Sotheby's auction house, A. Alfred Taubman, is implicated in a price fixing scheme. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 10 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = What the Butler Saw |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|03|12}} |ShortSummary = Paul Burrell, the former butler for Princess Diana is accused of stealing from the royal family. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 11 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Run from Justice |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|03|19}} |ShortSummary = Alex Kelly of Darien, Connecticut flees to Europe for seven years to avoid prosecution for two rapes. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 12 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Sweet Seduction |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|03|26}} |ShortSummary = Helen Brach, an heiress of Brach's Candy Company, disappears and the investigation reveals more horrible crimes. }} |
=Season 3=
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|EpisodeNumber = 13 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = The Waitress and the Millionaire |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|07|30}} |ShortSummary = Country club waitress Celeste Beard marries a rich, older man who is shot dead by her lesbian lover. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 14 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Mystery in the Caribbean |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|08|06}} |ShortSummary = The body of former model and aspiring artist Lois McMillen washes up on the shores on Tortola. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 15 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Oil, Money and Mystery |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|08|13}} |ShortSummary = Oil heir T. Cullen Davis fatally shoots his estranged wife's twelve year-old daughter and her boyfriend. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 16 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Evil Deeds |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|08|27}} |ShortSummary = Andrew Luster, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, is on the run and captured by Duane Chapman. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 17 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Tailspin |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|09|03}} |ShortSummary = College student Dana Ewell orchestrates the triple murder of his parents and sister so he can inherit the family fortune. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 18 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Blood Money |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|09|10}} |ShortSummary = Steven Benson uses a car bomb to kill his mother, a tobacco heiress, and his brother, a tennis player. }} |
=Season 4=
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|EpisodeNumber = 19 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Island Obsession |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2004|01|07}} |ShortSummary = Ex-windsurfing champion Enrico "Chico" Forti is accused of fraud at the Pikes Hotel and the murder of Dale Pike. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 20 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Martha Stewart on Trial |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2004|01|14}} |ShortSummary = Martha Stewart's highly-publicized trial for her involvement in the ImClone stock trading case is profiled. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 21 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = A Deadly Campaign |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2004|01|21}} |ShortSummary = Up-and-coming politician Ruthann Aron is embroiled in a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband and an attorney. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 22 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Freefall |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2004|02|18}} |ShortSummary = Andrew C. Thornton II and his friends become involved in an international drug smuggling ring. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 23 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Family Secrets |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2004|02|25}} |ShortSummary = The Franklin Bradshaw murder case reveals a mother's deadly manipulation of her teenage son. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 24 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Murder, He Wrote |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2004|03|03}} |ShortSummary = Author Michael Peterson claims his wife Kathleen's suspicious death was the result of falling down the stairs. }} |
=Season 5=
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|EpisodeNumber = 25 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = A Marriage of Inconvenience |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|01|01}} |ShortSummary = Socialite Lita McClinton is gunned down the day before her divorce, and the case takes nearly twenty years to solve. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 26 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = The Two Mrs. Woodwards |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|01|12}} |ShortSummary = Ann Woodward shoots her husband, William Woodward, Jr., to death, claiming that she thought he was a prowler. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 27 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Death of a Beauty King |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|01|26}} |ShortSummary = Cosmetics magnate Dean Milo is killed in his Ohio home, and the investigation points police to his brother Fred. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 28 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = What Price Murder? |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|02|02}} |ShortSummary = Pennsylvania multimillionaire Joel Sandler hires a hit man to kill his estranged wife Linda after she files for divorce. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 29 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Mystery in the Mansion |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|02|09}} |ShortSummary = Elisabeth Congdon, the wealthiest woman in Minnesota, is found dead and her daughter Marjorie is a prime suspect. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 30 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Crime of Fashion |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|02|09}} |ShortSummary = Maurizio Gucci, the former head of Gucci, is gunned down, and his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani is convicted in the crime. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 31 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7 |Title = Rich Man, Poor Man |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|02|16}} |ShortSummary = New York City investment banker Ted Ammon is murdered during his divorce from his estranged wife Generosa Ammon. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 32 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8 |Title = Doctor of Deceit |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|02|23}} |ShortSummary = Plastic surgeon Robert Bierenbaum is convicted of strangling his wife and dumping her body in the Atlantic Ocean. }} |
=Season 6=
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|EpisodeNumber = 33 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Deadly Designs |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|01|09}} |ShortSummary = Spree killer Andrew Cunanan is responsible for at least five murders, including fashion designer Gianni Versace. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 34 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Mystery in the Mountains |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|01|16}} |ShortSummary = The wife of a millionaire Newport Beach developer, Bonnie Hood is found dead in her Sierra Nevada lodge. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 35 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Shootout in Bel-Air |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|01|23}} |ShortSummary = Henry Harrison Kyle, the CEO of Four Star Television is gunned down in his Bel Air mansion by his son Ricky. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 36 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = The Trophy Wife and the Tennis Pro |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|01|30}} |ShortSummary = Debra Hartmann is accused of soliciting the murder of her older husband, a multimillionaire car stereo salesman. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 37 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = The Starlet and the Skier |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|02|06}} |ShortSummary = Singer-actress Claudine Longet goes on trial in the shooting of her boyfriend, Olympic skier Spider Sabich. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 38 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Deception in Dallas |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|02|20}} |ShortSummary = Joy Aylor, the daughter of a wellbred developer, orchestrates the murder of her husband's lover Rozanne Gailiunas. }} |
=Season 7=
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|EpisodeNumber = 39 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = The Heiress and the Hit Man |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|01|24}} |ShortSummary = The widow of a successful businessman, Phoenix, Arizona socialite Jeanne Tovrea is found shot dead in her bed. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 40 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Biloxi Confidential |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|01|31}} |ShortSummary = In Biloxi, Mississippi, a local judge and his wife are murdered, and it takes investigators years to solve the case. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 41 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = The Candy Scandal |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|02|07}} |ShortSummary = Candy Mossler's relationship with her nephew Melvin Lane Powers is at the center of her wealthy husband's murder. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 42 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Over The Edge |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|02|14}} |ShortSummary = Peter Bergna, a wealthy art appraiser from Lake Tahoe, kills his wife and stages her death as a car crash off a cliff. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 43 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Family Betrayal |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|02|21}} |ShortSummary = Ten years after Janet March mysteriously vanishes, her husband Perry, a successful lawyer, is charged with her murder. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 44 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Family Plot |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|02|28}} |ShortSummary = Texas teen Kristi Koslow orchestrates a deadly attack on her father, millionaire Jack Koslow, and his wife, Caren Koslow. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 45 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7 |Title = Cape Fear |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|03|07}} |ShortSummary = Fashion writer Christa Worthington is killed by waste collector Christopher McCowen in her home on Cape Cod. }} |
=Season 8=
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|EpisodeNumber = 46 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Deadly Delivery |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|01|04}} |ShortSummary = Phoenix businessman Robert Levine orchestrates the murders of his brother and sister-in-law in Munster, Indiana. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 47 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = House of Secrets |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|01|11}} |ShortSummary = The suspicious deaths of Bruce and Darlene Rouse leave their three children as the prime suspects in their murders. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 48 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Traces of Evil |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|01|18}} |ShortSummary = The daughter of a Dallas real estate tycoon, Nancy Dillard Lyon dies with a fatal amount of arsenic in her system. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 49 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Tragedy in Telluride |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|01|25}} |ShortSummary = Members of the Shoen family, heirs of U-Haul, blame each other when Eva Shoen is killed in her Telluride, Colorado chalet. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 50 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = Death of a Salesman |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|02|01}} |ShortSummary = Wealthy businessman Rick Chance is found slain in a hotel room, and two strippers become the prime suspects in his murder. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 51 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Mystery in Monaco |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|02|08}} |ShortSummary = Ted Maher is a registered nurse on trial for a deadly fire that killed Edmond Safra and Vivian Torrente in Safra's penthouse. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 52 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7 |Title = The Von Bulow Affair |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|02|15}} |ShortSummary = Socialite Claus von Bülow is suspected of inducing his wife Sunny's coma by administering an overdose of insulin. }} |
=Season 9=
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|EpisodeNumber = 53 |EpisodeNumber2 = 1 |Title = Heart of Stone |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|07|24}} |ShortSummary = A Manhattan diamond dealer's fraud scheme leads to the deaths of two company employees and three CBS technicians. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 54 |EpisodeNumber2 = 2 |Title = Burning Obsession |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|07|31}} |ShortSummary = When David Coffin is found shot dead in his burning home, the investigation centers around his girlfriend's ex, Scott Davis. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 55 |EpisodeNumber2 = 3 |Title = Sinister Harvest |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|08|07}} |ShortSummary = Hanford, California teen Kevin Yocum conspires with friends to kill his parents so he can collect on his inheritance. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 56 |EpisodeNumber2 = 4 |Title = Billionaire on the Run |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|08|14}} |ShortSummary = Robert Durst becomes the prime suspect in the murders of Kathleen McCormack, Susan Berman, and Morris Black. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 57 |EpisodeNumber2 = 5 |Title = A Deadly Parlay |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|08|21}} |ShortSummary = The murder of Doris Angleton exposes her husband's bookmaking business, and implicates her brother-in-law as a killer. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 58 |EpisodeNumber2 = 6 |Title = Programmed for Murder |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|08|28}} |ShortSummary = Hans Reiser, a computer programmer, becomes a suspect in the disappearance and murder of his wife Nina. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 59 |EpisodeNumber2 = 7 |Title = Robert Blake |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|09|04}} |ShortSummary = Actor Robert Blake goes on trial for the shooting death of Bonnie Lee Bakley, his second wife of only six months. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 60 |EpisodeNumber2 = 8 |Title = Strange Bedfellows |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|08|14}} |ShortSummary = Nevada State Controller Kathy Augustine dies suspiciously, and the drug succinylcholine is found in her autopsy results. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 61 |EpisodeNumber2 = 9 |Title = Dirty Secrets Down Under |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|09|18}} |ShortSummary = Shirley Withers is responsible for plotting the murder of her boyfriend, Melbourne, Australia millionaire Peter Shellard. }} {{Episode list |EpisodeNumber = 62 |EpisodeNumber2 = 10 |Title = Phil Spector |OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|09|25}} |ShortSummary = Music producer Phil Spector ends up on trial when actress Lana Clarkson is found dead in his Alhambra, California mansion. }} |
Comments
The show started in 2002 and ended with Dunne's death in 2009. Several of the episodes had intersected with his career.
{{cite book |last=Hogan |first=Mike|author-link= |date=2016 |title=Vanity Fair's Writers on Writers (Grayton Carter, Editor) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ASjbCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Dominick+Dunne%27s+Power,+Privilege,+and+Justice%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA266 |location=New York, New York |publisher=Penguin Books |page=266 |isbn=9780143111764}} The show had "one of the best true-crime writers" of its time, Dominick Dunne.{{cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2002/06/19/dominick-dunnes-court-tv-gig-digs-rich-pickins/ |author=Linda Stasi |title=Dominick Dunne's Court TV Gig Digs ...Rich Pickin's |publisher=New York Post |date=June 19, 2002 |access-date=April 29, 2022}} Linda Stasi comments that Dunne reports on the rich and powerful when they kill, and analyses how they are more likely to get away with it, indicating "Dunne nails them - no holds barred." Listed in the Encyclopedia of Television Shows 1925-2010, the series is described to present "a look at the dark side of the law" where the rich and famous try to beat the legal system.
{{cite book |last=Terrace|first=Vincent |author-link= |date=2011 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010, 2nd edition |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&dq=%22Dominick+Dunne%27s+Power,+Privilege,+and+Justice%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA275|location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=275|isbn=978-0786464777}}
References
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080222235058/http://www.trutv.com/shows/dominick_dunne/index.html Official site for Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege and Justice], archived
External links
- {{IMDb title|377245}}
{{Court TV}}
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