Maureen Dean was born Maureen Elizabeth Kane on October 10, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a writer known for Blind Ambition published in 1979 and The Mike Douglas Show in 1961. She is also famous for being the wife of John Dean, a former adviser to Richard Nixon at the White House, involved in the Watergate affair since October 13, 1972.
MAUREEN DEAN AGE
She was born on October 10, 1945, in Los Angeles, California. She is 77 years old currently.
MAUREEN DEAN’S HUSBAND – JOHN DEAN
She dropped out of college after her father died and worked as a secretary and flight attendant according to People. Before being introduced to John by a friend, she had been married twice. (In one of her marriages, her high school boyfriend died in a car accident two years after they got married. The other was never official because she found out after the brief marriage that the football scout didn’t divorce his first wife).
John was called in to help with the Watergate scandal two days after the wedding, People said. They moved to Beverly Hills after serving four and a half months in prison. She managed the family finances and realized that she liked the job. So she entered a finance training program, where she eventually started her own securities brokerage business and had hundreds of clients.
After serving his prison sentence, John worked as an investment banker. In 1988, speaking to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Maureen said, ‘I just retired from a stock agency, so we have plenty of time to go for long walks together, ride a bike, watch videos…’.
HEARINGS OF MAUREEN DEAN WATERGATE
Dean is known for sitting stoically behind her husband during the Watergate hearings. John Dean was later disbarred but remained calm during the hearings. Her presence garnered national attention at the time.
BOOKS AND SCRIPTS BY MAUREEN DEAN
Maureen Dean wrote screenplays and a 1987 novel called ‘Washington Wives. She didn’t come up with the plot. Lawrence Gordon, a film producer, came up with the idea as a possible miniseries, and Arbor House suggested Maureen Dean. The book took her two and a half years to finish.
THE NOVEL WAS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF HER PARENTS
According to IMDB, she also wrote screenplays called Blind Ambition (1979) and The Mike Douglas Show (1961). In 1975 she published a book called: ‘Mo: A Woman’s View of Watergate’.
That book sold more than 30,000 hardcover copies and helped her and John pay off some of their debts with the $ 80,000 down payment that she shared with Hays Gorey, People wrote in 1976. John Dean wrote her book. for which she received an advance of $ 300,000.
MAUREEN DEAN AND JOHN DEAN CHILDREN
John, her husband has only one child, a son named John Wesley Dean IV from his first wife, Karla Ann Hennings. Karla later married Larry E. Phillips, a senior associate of Buchanon Ingersoll at the time of her son’s engagement announcement in 1990. Their son graduated from Denison University, where he was with Phi Beta Kappa, and in he later received an MBA, according to his engagement announcement.
According to the New York Times, in 1990, John Wesley married Dorothy Rooms Fox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Fox of Connecticut. Dorothy’s father was senior vice president of JP Morgan & Company when she was married and her mother was a manager of Kropotkin INC.