Domino Harvey (August 7, 1969 June 27, 2005) was a British-born former model turned Los Angeles bounty hunter, notable within that field for being female, rebellious, and from a privileged background.
The daughter of Lithuanian Jewish actor Laurence Harvey and his third wife and widow, English supermodel Paulene Stone, she was reportedly named after Bond girl Domino Derval from the Movie Thunderball (The character's real name was Dominique, though she was called Domino).
Harvey claimed that she had initially followed her mother's footsteps as a Ford model before turning to more dangerous careers, but her employment with the agency has not been confirmed. She did run a London nightclub, worked as a San Diego ranch hand, volunteered with the Boulevard Fire & Rescue company near the Mexican border and, eventually, started bounty hunting.
In and out of drug rehabilitation for years, on May 4, 2005, she was arrested for allegedly dealing methamphetamines. She was awaiting trial and under house arrest at the time of her death. She would have faced up to ten years in jail if she had been convicted.
Laurence Harvey and Paulene Stone with toddler Domino. Harvey was found dead in a bathtub by a close family friend in West Hollywood. On September 3, the Los Angeles County coroner reported that she had died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl. The report said Harvey died June 27 from 'acute fentanyl toxicity.' Fentanyl is a painkiller 80 times more potent than morphine.
Domino's mother was a Vogue cover girl who embodied Swinging London in the 1960s.
Laurence Harvey died of stomach cancer in 1973, when Domino was 4. He left a sizable inheritance, ensuring that she would be financially well off. It did not fill the void created by her father's death . By her teens, Harvey had been kicked out of four elite boarding schools.
At 16, she settled down at the Dartington Hall School in southwestern England and cultivated a skill that would prove useful later. I spent my time making canoes and studying martial arts, she told London's Mail on Sunday newspaper in 1994. It was really relaxed.
In the early '80s, her mother married Peter Morton, founder of the Hard Rock Caf and Hotel chain, and moved to Los Angeles. Harvey, a teenager at the time, stayed behind, moving into an apartment in London's Notting Hill Gate neighborhood.
A mythology grew up that like her mother, Domino was a model and that, unlike her mother, she had turned her back on the glamour of the runway for a fringe existence. But according to several family members and friends, Harvey never worked as a model.
She did show an entrepreneurial spirit, designing a funky clothing line and selling it at the Kensington Market. She also ran one of t he first clubs in London to do with the dance music scene, said Michael John Galvin, a British attorney who was a friend of Harvey from her London days and now lives in L.A.
Even then she was battling drug addiction. At 17, she visited her uncle and aunt in Israel, seeking to get to know members of her father's family. While there, she sneaked away to score drugs, recalled Nachshon Sneh, an Israeli cousin.
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