James Dean Molested By Minister, Elizabeth Taylor Revealed

[Amerigo Vespucci]

James Dean Molested By Minister, Elizabeth Taylor Revealed

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/james-dean-molested-by-minister_n_840495.html



Kevin Sessums, writing for The Daily Beast, reveals that in a wide ranging interview with the just passed Taylor, the famed actress let him in on a secret about Dean that she had promised she'd keep forever. Sworn to secrecy until Taylor's death, Sessums revealed the hidden past of the Rebel Without a Cause.

"When Jimmy was 11 and his mother passed away, he began to be molested by his minister," Taylor said. "I think that haunted him the rest of his life. In fact, I know it did. We talked about it a lot. During 'Giant' we'd stay up nights and talk and talk, and that was one of the things he confessed to me."

After Dean's mother died in 1940, he was sent back from California, where his family had relocated, to Indiana to live with his grandparents. He was sent back on the same train as his mother's body. Known for his young rebel roles, Dean was cast as -- and was in real life -- a confused, somewhat angry and abandoned young man.

Dean was known to have a chip on his shoulder against fathers, thanks in part to never reconciling with his own -- whether the minister story, if true, has anything to do with that, is perhaps unknowable.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. One correction...

Dean was not sent to live with his grandparents in 1940. He was sent to live with his Aunt and Uncle, the Winslow family. They had a son, Marcus, who is still alive today and living on the same farm that he lived on when Jimmy came to live with them. Marcus Winslow is James Dean's sole living heir and he rakes in millions a year off of the James Dean estate. He also still does some farming and cattle ranching.

The pastors name was DeWeerd and it has long been assumed by many that grew up with Jimmy in Fairmount that the story of molestation is true.

I have done some work with the Dean Estate and I got to hang out on the farm with Marcus a few times. He showed me many of the items of James Dean that he still has in his possession.

[mackerel]

2. Interesting. Curious is the reason that it is assumed to be

true because this DeWeird character had reputation already?

[Rowdyboy]

3. I went to college with Kevin Sessums....why did he get to interview Elizabeth Taylor

and not me!!!!!