A Rare Encounter With Dolly Parton’s Elusive Husband, Carl Dean: What a Journalist Learned From Her Glimpse of the Couple at Home Alanna Nash Tue, March 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM UTC ...

Country music icon Dolly Parton opened her heart and history in her song, “If You Hadn’t Been There,” a raw, intimate tribute ...

Editor’s note: Few journalists ever got to meet Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton, who died Monday at age 82.He was renowned for his reclusiveness, developing a legend — probably in spite ...

Parton, who was with Dean for nearly 60 years, sat down with Knox News for an interview after she surprised fans at Dollywood’s Celebrity Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., on March 14 to celebrate ...

I t’s been two months since the country music legend Dolly Parton lost her husband Carl Dean, who she was married to for nearly sixty years. He died on March 3 at the age of 82 from an ...

In the age of celebrity ego, influence, look to Dolly Parton for true lessons of charity Dolly Parton is one of those rare folks who doesn’t let fame inflate her ego or allow money to empower ...

Dolly Parton is opening up about her "homebody" husband, Carl Thomas Dean. On the Monday, Dec. 9 episode of Bunnie Xo's Dumb Blonde podcast, the country music icon, 78, revealed her notoriously ...

Dolly Parton made her first public appearance on Friday, less than two weeks after the death of her husband Carl Dean. The country music icon, 79, surprised fans at Dollywood's 40th season opening ...

Dolly Parton and Carl Dean were married from 1966 until his death on March 3. ... the country icon made her first public appearance at Dollywood’s Celebrity Theater in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.