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11 Facts About Ike Jones

1.

Isaac Lolette Jones was an American film producer and actor.

2.

Ike Jones was relatively unknown outside of the film industry until 1970, when he publicly announced that he had been secretly married to actress Inger Stevens from 1961 until her death in April 1970.

3.

Ike Jones' claim was backed up in court by Stevens' brother, Carl O Stensland.

4.

Ike Jones was born in Santa Monica, California, and attended Santa Monica High School.

5.

Ike Jones studied motion picture production at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

6.

In 1953, Ike Jones worked as an actor in bit parts and served as an assistant director on The Joe Louis Story.

7.

Later on in the decade, Ike Jones worked as an assistant producer for Hill-Hecht Lancaster Company.

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8.

Stevens did not leave a will and Ike Jones filed to become administrator of her estate, making their marriage public.

9.

At the time, Ike Jones managed a chain of convalescent homes.

10.

Around that same time, Ike Jones had made a number of bad investments, straining his finances.

11.

Ike Jones died "of complications from a stroke and congestive heart failure" in an assisted-living facility in Los Angeles on October 5,2014.