Talking to Ronald Martinetti for his biography, The James Dean Story, advertising exec Rogers Brackett claimed, 'I loved him, and Jimmy loved me' (via Salon). Composer Alec Wilder claimed 'they were definitely a couple,' adding, 'Of course, the words 'sexual fidelity' would be unknown in each of their vocabularies.'īrando wasn't Dean's only alleged same-sex conquest. He'd reportedly wait outside Brando's apartment like a 'puppy dog,' and ask Brando to burn him with cigarettes during sex (per the Daily Mail). In the biography James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes, authors Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince alleged that Dean enjoyed 'kinky sado-masochistic sex' with actor Marlon Brando (via Express). Judging by other reports, Dean may have occasionally enjoyed going through life with both hands tied behind his back.
