Last trial of Dominick Dunne

Dominick Dunne is preening once more in a danse macabre of celebrity culture. The man he calls a murderer to his face, but whom he also thanks for making him "a name and a public person, which I love", is once again in the dock: OJ Simpson, the American football legend found 'not guilty' of killing his wife and her lover in the unlikely verdict of the 'trial of the century' in 1995, and now accused of armed robbery in Las Vegas.

But this time the lights have gone out, the photographers have abandoned the press pen in droves, and neither OJ, gone to seed and flabby, nor Dunne is bathed in the public attention they crave.

And this time it's Dunne himself who is cast in the shadow of the Grim Reaper, aged 83, ailing