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Inside James Dean’s ‘Super Private’ Relationship With Agent Jane Deacy: She Protected His Secrets
James Dean's Agent Jane Deacy protected his secrets and kept their 'close' relationship 'super private,' her grandson John Paul Deacy tells Closer exclusively.
During filming of the 1955 classic East of Eden, James Dean wrote a letter to “Lady Jane,” the woman he also called “Mom.” In it, he expressed his dislike of L.A., his quest to find a discreet dentist, asked about his finances, and assured her he was doing fine. After signing him to her nascent talent agency in New York, she helped James make job connections, paid his bills, protected him from blackmail, and kept his secrets even after his 1955 death. She began receiving demands for money from Rogers Brackett, a gay advertising executive turned theatrical producer whom James had lived with for several months in the early 1950s.
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