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    xenaswolf Guest

    Domino Harvey

    Domino Harvey >permalink<

    Model, bounty hunter
    She was the daughter of Laurence Harvey, star of the original "The Manchurian Candidate." She was a former Ford model. Later in life, she was a bounty hunter. And Domino Harvey's life story is the subject of a movie set to be released late in 2005.


    Born in Belgravia, Domino was the product of a three-year affair between her father and Vogue model Pauline Stone during his second marriage. After his divorce, Laurence married Pauline shortly before his death from stomach cancer in 1973. Pauline then married Peter Morton, owner of the Hard Rock Caf&#233; chain, and moved to Hollywood while her daughter attended public school in England.


    Domino's rebellious nature caused her to be expelled from four schools. Her natural beauty won her a job with the Ford model agency, but she soon tired of life on the catwalk and hopped nightclubs and sold T-shirts in Kensington Market to pass the time. She soon took acting lessons at the Lee Strasberg drama school.


    At 19, Domino moved to Hollywood, running a nightclub, working as a ranch hand (where she became familiar with weaponry) and later as a firefighter in San Diego. She also developed a full-blown heroin addiction, and got caught up in the shadowy world of bounty-hunting for the Celes King Bail Bond Agency, tracking down criminals by any means short of murder for skipping bail while awaiting trial. Posing often as a lost English tourist, Harvey would lure her target away before pressing a gun into their gut.


    Despite her success rate, her 10&#37; cut usually translated into 300 dollars a week. When money was short, she would move back home. She eventually checked into a Hawaiian rehab clinic in 1997, weighing only 98 pounds. It was then she sold the rights to her life story.


    Despite seemingly successful treatment, Domino was arrested for possession of crystal meth in 2003. As a first offender, she avoided trial by entering a treatment program. Domino was then charged in May, 2005 with with conspiracy to distribute drugs, possession, trafficking, racketeering, crossing state lines for unlawful activity and having property used in or obtained through criminal activity. Harvey faced ten years to life if found guilty. Pending trial, she was ordered to wear an electronic bracelet and be subject to drug and alcohol testing. She had yet to enter a plea on the charges.


    The film "Domino" stars Keira Knightley under direction from Tony Scott. The real-life subject of the film made her hatred of the film publicly clear, although those close to her said Harvey was delighted with the movie. The film had a budget of 60 million USD. Harvey was paid 300,000 USD for her rights. Her greatest point of contention was that false reports of her open lesbian nature were treated as a source for soft-porn titillation in the film. New Line Cinema did not give Harvey script approval on the film, which is based on a newspaper article about her life. The film's release was delayed to incorporate Harvey's death into the storyline.


    In September 2005, the Los Angeles County coroner has concluded that Harvey died from an overdose of Fentanyl, a painkiller more powerful than morphine. The death was ruled accidental.
    June 27, 2005 at age 35. Drug overdose.
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    GODDESS6 Guest
    i have the movie "domino", i haven't watched it, i'm gonna have to tho, her story intrigues me too~

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    cherryghost Guest
    I didnt realise she was the daughter of Lawrence Harvey, is there a thread for him, he was a complex one!!!

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    Maruz83 Guest
    She's the sister to the guy that owns "PINK TACO", and the HardRock right ???

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    hoxharding Guest
    I remember they had information in tabloids at the time of her death. She had 'handlers' (aka babysitters) with her.
    Supposedly one of them was standing right outside the door while she bathed. I think they found her dead in 2" of water(?)

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    Kugmu Guest
    This is a new story for me!
    Thank you, xenaswolf
    Here is the wikipeidia about all this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Harvey

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    Noelle Page Guest
    Jeez, her entire life really falls into the category of "Stuff You Can't Make Up."

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    Very very interesting.. I know the film with Keira Knightley.. but never knew that the story, led alone that she was Laurence Harvey´s daughter.. Think I better see the film after all... not exactly my genre, but I´ll make an exception in this case

    Here´s a pic of her grave;
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...GRid=11262980&

    and a few pics of her; think they are her anyway...
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    Lisamarie Guest
    her story is a cool one she was a tough broad man..too bad she couldent put down the needles.....

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    Mrs. Watson Guest
    I just watched that on On Demand this past week!

    I'd never heard of her either. It was a pretty good flick, but dark. Very dark. A few parts are pretty gory, too.

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    Frank 'N' Howie Guest
    Seen the movie...I've seen tougher gals...

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnneBoleyn View Post
    Very very interesting.. I know the film with Keira Knightley.. but never knew that the story, led alone that she was Laurence Harvey´s daughter.. Think I better see the film after all... not exactly my genre, but I´ll make an exception in this case

    Here´s a pic of her grave;
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...GRid=11262980&

    and a few pics of her; think they are her anyway...

    Omfg - she looks like David Beckham

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    redkatrampant Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by hoxharding View Post
    I remember they had information in tabloids at the time of her death. She had 'handlers' (aka babysitters) with her.
    Supposedly one of them was standing right outside the door while she bathed. I think they found her dead in 2" of water(?)
    From Wiki:
    On 27 June 2005, Harvey was found dead in a bathtub in West Hollywood after she became unresponsive while talking to Peter Dice, a "sobriety guardian." Harvey had hired Dice to help control her drug use. On 3 September, the Los Angeles County coroner reported that a toxicological exam determined that Harvey died from a overdose of fentanyl, an extremely potent opiate painkiller. [6] Her mother Paulene Stone suggested that Harvey may have been prescribed fentanyl for injuries she sustained in February 2005 when she fell taking her dog for a walk. [7] Her funeral took place on 1 July 2005. Among the attendees were Tony Scott, Mickey Rourke, and Steve Jones.

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    Mrs. Watson Guest
    Hanging out with Mickey Rourake can't be good for anyone.

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    RubySlippers Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs. Watson View Post
    Hanging out with Mickey Rourake can't be good for anyone.


    ewwww. mickey rourke. even with his REAL face. eeeew. creepy.

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    redkatrampant Guest
    http://classicmoviefavorites.com/harvey/domino2.htmlDomino Harvey: Sadly short life touches [my] cousin
    By Joshua Sinai

    Published October 14, 2005
    Domino Harvey was my cousin. I did not know Domino -- mythologized as a dangerous and seductive thrill-seeking bounty hunter in the new film "Domino" (reviewed below) -- when she was growing up in England. I first communicated with her in 1997, when she was 28 years old. At the time, she lived in Los Angeles, and I lived (and still do) in the Washington area.
    Her father, the famous screen and stage star Laurence (Larry) Harvey, was my father's younger brother (our original family name was Skikne). Uncle Larry died in London in November 1973 of stomach cancer at age 45 when Domino, his only child, was 4.
    Although my father and Larry had been estranged for many years, I grew up hearing about him and seeing (and collecting) virtually all of his films.
    I met Larry in August 1970, in Chichester, England, where he was performing in the play "Arms and the Man." When we met backstage, I was introduced to Paulene Stone, his longtime mistress. (He was married at the time to his second wife, Joan Cohn, an American, who was the widow of Hollywood legend Harry Cohn, the founder of Columbia Pictures.)
    Later, I found out that my uncle and Paulene had a daughter, named Domino. Paulene and Larry were married in 1972. At Larry's funeral in London in early December 1973, I remember Paulene, a former top British fashion model, looking glamorous and aloof, exactly as portrayed by Jacqueline Bisset in the "Domino" movie. In 1997 Domino contacted my parents, who were living in Rockville, in an attempt to reach out to her father's family. She had earlier visited my cousin (whose father was the eldest of the three brothers) on his kibbutz in Israel.
    My parents recall that in their telephone conversation with Domino, she seemed thoughtful and sensitive. Domino said that she wanted to know us all and to visit us in Washington. She said that she was interested in art and wanted to become an artist.
    Later, she sent a card with her photo surrounded by painted flowers and text, which at the time I thought was a little incoherent. The photo, however, showed a beautiful blond woman who looked very much like her handsome father.
    The postcard included Domino's e-mail address, so I started what turned out to be a brief correspondence with her. In her first e-mail, she told me that she had been a volunteer firefighter in San Diego and a bounty hunter's assistant in Los Angeles. In another e-mail she mentioned that her mother had told her of our fathers' estrangement, and I replied that they were both competitive, stubborn men and that it was a great pity that they had never resolved their differences.
    In what turned out to be the last e-mail between us, I mentioned that my mother, Anne Sinai, who had known Larry very well, was writing a biography of her father (the book, "Reach for the Top," was published by Scarecrow Press in 2003). Domino did not reply to this e-mail, and that was my family's last communication with her. Since then, I've learned that Domino's drug addiction may have intensified at around this time and that she was admitted not long after into a treatment center in Hawaii.
    What Domino may never have known throughout her lifetime is that her father was very proud of her and had planned to take her to Israel to meet her grandparents, but that his illness toward the end of his life prevented it. When I heard at the end of June of this year that Domino had died at age 35, the news of her death saddened me deeply. (According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, the cause of her death on June 27 was an accidental overdose of a powerful painkiller called Fentanyl. She was under house arrest at the time in her West Hollywood cottage and facing federal drug distribution charges in Mississippi.)
    I had hoped that the "Domino" movie would clear up some of the mysteries about the real Domino. It did so, in a way. The film, which I found very exciting, captured the chaos that seemed to be Domino's life. Her flight from extravagant privilege, her descent into a violent underworld and a very risky profession -- bounty hunting -- is all true, although she had ceased being a bounty hunter by the mid-1990s.
    In the movie, Keira Knightly portrays Domino as a female action hero -- tough, sexy, self-possessed and risk-taking. But in reality Domino -- although she appeared to exhibit aspects of all those things -- seemed more like a lost child. Her constant searching for new paths in her life was exacerbated by her drug addiction, which she had unsuccessfully tried off and on over the years to overcome, and which had dissipated her physically. This is starkly shown in the movie, when a still photo of an emaciated, "real" Domino is flashed on screen after the closing credits.
    At one point in the movie, a reality television producer, shrewdly portrayed by Christopher Walken, says of Domino, "this girl is going to be a star." Tragically, while her father did become an international movie star, and a mythical bounty hunting Domino is being immortalized in film, the real Domino didn't live quite long enough to see it.
    And if she had, she would have realized that what ended up on the screen wasn't quite herself.
    Joshua Sinai is a Washington-based writer on international security issues.

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    newsocks Guest
    HMM never seen the movie now i want to. interesting beautiful disaster.

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    Mrs. Watson Guest
    Good article, RED.

    Thanks, babe!

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    Frank 'N' Howie Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by newsocks View Post
    HMM never seen the movie now i want to. interesting beautiful disaster.

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    xenaswolf Guest
    Thanks Mrs. Watson! Just watched the flick....hmmmm loved the title "Domino: Based on a true story....sort of:

    Lots of sort of!

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