Dean Kelly biography: 13 things about ex-model from New Orleans, Louisiana

Dean Edward Kelly is an American former model and actor from Uptown, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He is Jerry Wayne Kelly Sr. and Marilyn Chimera Kelly‘s son.

Jerry served in the U.S. Navy. Aside from Dean, Jerry and Marilyn have seven other children namely David Kelly, Steven Kelly, Ronald Kelly, Camie Kelly, Joe Kelly, Jerry Wayne Kelly Jr. and Edie Kelly.

Dean used to live in Pass Christian, Mississippi, USA, in Los Angeles, California, USA, in New York City, New York, USA and in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He played a sweaty and shirtless farmer tilling farmland in a tractor in the music video of the Aerosmith song “Crazy“, which was released on May 3, 1994.
2. In February 2005, he allegedly sexually assaulted a girl, then 14.
3. In November 2005, he allegedly sexually assaulted a girl, then 17, in his residence in New Orleans.
4. In March 2011, he was arrested by New Orleans Police Department officers for the crime he allegedly committed in November 2005.
5. In 2013, he pleaded no contest to a pair of sexual battery counts and a charge of carnal knowledge of a juvenile. District Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier handed him a 10-year suspended sentence and five years of probation for sexual battery and felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
6. In June 2014, Flemings-Davillier revoked his probation after ruling that he had violated the terms of his probation by soliciting women on Facebook and failing to register some of his phones with the sexual offender registry. He was shipped to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.
7. On September 2, 2014, his parents stood outside the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court in New Orleans wrapped in plastic smocks dripping with white-lettered diatribes meant for then Orleans Parish district attorney Leon Cannizzaro.
8. In October 2015, authorities learned that he tried to hire a fellow inmate at the Rayburn Correctional Center in Angie, Louisiana to kill Flemings-Davillier, Cannizzaro, a victim of a sex crime he was convicted of and his defense attorney Jason Williams. In 2016, he faced murder-for-hire charges, which were reduced to misdemeanors
9. In 2021, he pleaded guilty in Washington Parish, Louisiana to threatening a public official and was handed a 6-month suspended jail sentence with two years’ probation.
10. On June 4, 2022, he was released from prison.
11. On January 18, 2023, his father died at age 85.
12. In October 2023, he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman he met through a dating website. On December 7, 2023, he was arrested on charges of attempted third-degree rape and sexual battery and booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans.
13. He was 52 years old when he was given on December 8, 2023 a $1.1 million bond.