New details emerge about James Dean’s alleged gay affair with Hollywood producer & blackmail plot

Image Credit: James Dean on the set of ‘East Of Eden,’ Getty Images

It was recently announced that the book Surviving James Dean will be adapted for the big screen, a memoir from the actor’s good friend, one-time roommate, and alleged former lover William Bast, who detailed their years-long on-again-off-again secret romance, right up until Dean’s tragic death at 24 in 1955.

But now, scandalous details have emerged about another one of Dean’s (alleged) gay lovers, and we’re starting to think there are enough stories here for a whole film series dedicated to the screen idol’s illicit affairs.

In the new biography Jimmy: The Secret Life Of James Dean (out Nov. 19 from Applause Books), author James Colavito pours through exhaustive research—including hundreds of rarely

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