Dominick Dunne Hospitalized (Pics)

Posted on September 22, 2008

Dominick Dunne was hospitalized after suffering pains while watching testimony in the O.J. Simpson trial. Dominick Dunne is Vanity Fair’s celebrity crime writer. Read more after the bump.

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Author Dominick Dunne, 82, “has been taken to a Las Vegas hospital after he says he was stricken by pain while watching testimony in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery-kidnapping trial,” reports the Associated Press.

Just on Sunday, Dunne told The Times “An O. J. case is the perfect capper because he’s been such a part of my life for 13 years… I had a literary following before, but because of O. J. I became a name and a public person, which I love.”

He also told the paper, “I think it would be a fitting way to end.”

Paul Vercammen, CNN Senior Producer, stated that Dominick Dunne was taken to Valley Hospital in Las Vegas after complaining of being in extreme pain.

At around 10 a.m. during OJ Simpson’s kidnapping trial, Dunne told Paul Vercammen, “I am in a lot of pain. Lot of pain,” he then motioned toward an area below his belt.

“I want to go back to my hotel.”

Dunne, who is battling bladder cancer, was said to look an “ashen” color as he left the courtroom.

Court marshals called paramedics and Dunne was taken to the hospital.

“I’m okay, I am doing fine under the circumstances,” Dunne said from the hospital just before 11am PT.

“But this probably means that I will have to go back to New York in the next few days.” Dunne said against doctor’s orders, he flew to Las Vegas to cover the O.J. Simpson trial.

When testimony began last week Dunne told fellow journalists and writers it was great to be back working after his “difficult summer,” alluding to his bladder cancer.

Let’s hope author Dominick Dunne will fare well!

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