Steve Dunleavy made up the story He was model for Wayne Gale, the repulsive tabloid hack in “Natural Born Killers.”
Dunleavy was known as a jerk, who wrote anything to get attention, as I said. Here is one of his reports on the Jimmy Hoffa killing


https://www.deseret.com/1992/7/24/19007890/dying-ex-con-says-he-was-1-of-4-hit-men-who-killed-hoffa