The fellow singer also describes what the star's final months were really like before he passed away in 1995. Dean Martin, the "King of Cool," never recovered after he lost his "golden boy." The ‘50s crooner and member of the Rat Pack was struck by tragedy in 1985 following a lustrous Hollywood career.
A military jet carrying his oldest son, Dean Paul Martin, crashed into the side of a mountain during a routine exercise in 1987. Martin's son was 35 at the time of his death. "Dean Martin’s final years were very, very sad after he lost his son," author William Keck told Fox News Digital.
"It was like looking at a candle without a flame." DEAN MARTIN DIDN’T ATTEND JFK’S INAUGURATION FOR THIS REASON, DOC REVEALS: ‘IT WAS PRETTY REMARKABLE’ Dean Martin never recovered from his son's tragic death, said author William Keck. (Henry Gris/FPG/Getty Images) Keck, a former reporter for the National Enquirer, has written a new memoir about his decades-long career, "When You Step Upon a Star: Cringeworthy Confessions of a Tabloid Bad Boy.
" In it, he details the celebrities he befriended, protected and wronged. Keck, who reported on Martin’s final years, said the singer was someone he was eager to protect. "He was still the nice man that he seemed to be on television," said Keck.
"He would always greet me when I came over to his table. He would always say, ‘I’ll be back on that stage one day. You’ll see me.
’ But he was done." Dean Martin is seen here in August 1995. He.
