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- The song "Eliminator Jr." from Sonic Youth's album Daydream Nation (1988) is about the Chambers case.
- The song "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" in The Killers's album Hot Fuss (2004) was inspired by Chambers' defense of the Jennifer Levin murder charges, in which Chambers claimed he had no motive for the murder, and that he and the victim were "friends".
- In 1989, the Chambers case was the basis of a TV movie titled The Preppie Murder, starring William Baldwin as Chambers and Lara Flynn Boyle as Levin.
- In 1990, the television series Law and Order based the episode "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" on the case.
- Mike Doyle has stated that his character, Adam Guenzel on Oz, (1997–2003) was based on Chambers.
- The 2003 Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Monster" was based on both the Chambers case and the Central Park Jogger case.
- The case is briefly mentioned in Kerry Cohen's memoir Loose Girl (2008).
- In the novel American Psycho, Patrick Bateman mentions trying to start a defense fund for Chambers.
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