Billionaire Boys Club - in Popular Culture

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In 1987, NBC aired a miniseries based on the story of the BBC, starring Judd Nelson as Joe Hunt, Brian McNamara as Dean Karny, and Ron Silver as Ron Levin. This movie inspired Lyle and Erik Menendez to murder their own parents for money a few years later. Hunt was the basis for Philip Swann, a character in the Law & Order Season 4 episode "American Dream," which was subsequently adapted into the Law & Order: UK episode, "Unsafe". The Billionaire Boys Club is also the topic of two books: The Billionaire Boys Club by Sue Horton and The Price of Experience by Randall Sullivan. The murders are also the subject of the song "Things to Do Today" by Chicago band Big Black.

On July 17, 2002, TruTV aired an episode of "Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege and Justice" entitled "Billionaire Boys Club", which summarized the events surrounding the "club" and the kidnapping, murders, and trials.

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