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January 3, 2006 — Donald H. Wolfe, Author of THE BLACK DAHLIA FILES: THE MOB, THE MOGUL, AND THE MURDER THAT TRANSFIXED LOS ANGELES, Will Speak at Reception at the Los Angeles Press Club on Jan. 12 The Conversation Will Be Moderated by Former Press Club President Ted Johnson, Editor of VLife

For nearly six decades, books, movies and websites have devoted countless words and extensive research to the case of the Black Dahlia, one of the most notorious murders in the history of Los Angeles. On the morning of January 15, 1947, the nude and grossly dismembered body of a young, aspiring Hollywood starlet named Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant lot near the Wilshire district of Los Angeles. Within days Elizabeth Short -- a dark haired beauty who wore a white flower behind her ear -- became immortalized as the Black Dahlia, and her murder, one of the most vicious, high profile crimes of the century, was forever relegated to ceaseless speculation.

The Los Angeles Press Club will host a reception for Donald H. Wolfe, author of THE BLACK DAHLIA FILES: THE MOB, THE MOGUL, AND THE MURDER THAT TRANSFIXED LOS ANGELES (REGANBOOKS, JANUARY 2006). According to his publisher, Wolfe was allowed access of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office files on the case and "has discovered evidence hidden from the public for over fifty years -- the sealed autopsy, the notorious suspects and accomplices that have never been publicly named, and the motive for the heinous crime." Wolfe, author of the best seller "The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe," "assembles all the missing pieces of the Black Dahlia murder puzzle and names the notorious psychopathic murderer who once wandered the labyrinthine corridors of power and greed that crisscrossed the shadowy underworld of the City of the Angels." The event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Press Club headquarters, is being underwritten by the Press Club and ReganBooks. In a Q&A session, Wolfe will offer his perspective on the media coverage of the murder, and offer insight into researching a case that is not only nearly sixty years old, but has been the subject of so much scrutiny, speculation and controversy.

The case will be the subject of Universal Pictures' upcoming The Black Dahlia, directed by Brian de Palma and based on a James Ellroy novel and starring Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson, and Josh Hartnett. The film is a fictionalized film-noir dramatization of the then unsolved mystery. Wolfe has worked as a film editor at Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. where he was the postproduction supervisor on All the President's Men and a screenwriter for Steven Spielberg. A contributor to the New York Times and Paris-Match, Wolfe now lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children.