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“Poltergeist” star Dominique Dunne‘s dying by the hands of her boyfriend enraged a really well-known actor a lot … he advised her household he may have the man murdered.

Dominique, the daughter of famed author/producer Dominick Dunne and sister of actor/producer Griffin Dunne, was strangled to dying by BF John Sweeney, a famed L.A. chef, again in 1980. Sweeney was charged with homicide however, in what virtually everybody concerned says was a gross miscarriage of justice, he was convicted of manslaughter and solely served a number of years in jail.

Griffin, Dominick and household buddy/Oscar-winning producer Charles Wessler went on a mission to hang-out Sweeney, getting him fired from a minimum of 7 jobs after his launch from jail.

In a brand new TMZ documentary on FOX Monday evening at 9/8 Central, Wessler tells the story at Dominique’s funeral, the place a really well-known actor — an actor who everybody is aware of — got here as much as him and mentioned he knew “people” who may maintain Sweeney for good — i.e., kill him.

Wessler made it clear … it wasn’t one thing the household needed, however it reveals the extent of shock.

Because the wheels of justice started to grind, it turned obvious the authorized course of had gone horribly fallacious. The choose wouldn’t permit the jury to listen to from Sweeney’s prior girlfriend who had an horrific story of how he repeatedly brutalized her to the purpose she ended up within the hospital a number of occasions. The girl broke her silence for the primary time in our documentary.

As for the supply to carry out a success on Sweeney, judging from the way in which Wessler tells the story, the actor might have had mob ties.

You’ll be able to hear the ache Dominique’s household and mates skilled, for by no means with the ability to correctly avenge Dominique’s dying — one thing we look at intimately in our new doc — “Killing a Movie Star: A Grave Injustice.”