Carl was the love of Dolly’s life before he died in 2025. Learn more about the couple’s private relationship and whether or ...

In a 2019 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Dolly Parton shared just what motivated one of her most beloved songs—and ...

Here's how Dolly Parton's relationship with Carl Dean in their early years of marriage played a role in the creation of one ...

Carl Thomas Dean, who was with Dolly Parton for over 60 years, has died at age 82. A bank teller who had an evident crush on Dean inspired Parton's hit song "Jolene." ...

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This article contains mentions of death.  Dolly Parton’s hit ballad Jolene was loosely inspired by real life! The Country ...

Monday evening, Dolly Parton announced that Carl Dean, her husband of more than six decades, has passed away at 82. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” she said in the statement. “Words ...

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of six decades, has died at 82 in Nashville, the iconic country singer revealed in a ...

The singer says the pair met outside a laundromat the day she moved to Nashville at age 18, then married two years later.

Though he stayed out of spotlight, Carl Dean — who died this week — was a constant presence in the life and work of his ...