On Thursday, September 10th, Dominick Dunne’s funeral took place at a Mass at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Manhattan. Hundreds attended from the worlds of society and culture, including Richard Gere, Julianna Margulies, Liev Schreiber, and Diane von Furstenberg.

Joan Didion was, of course, also in attendance. She spoke of Dunne ultimately as family-orientated and brave, according to the Huffington Post:

…Even though she acknowledged that he and his late brother, her husband, novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne, frequently had periods of disagreement.

“I came to see the very clear pleasure he took at seeing a celebrity,” Didion said. “He wasn’t ashamed when people spoke to him on the street and was never afraid to share the moment.”

She also spoke of him as a trusted confidant, as recorded on the NYTimes.com blog ‘Media Decoder’. “…he was the first person she called when Didion’s husband died, in part because he knew tragedy in all of its dimensions.”

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