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Bond for former model and actor Dean Edward Kelly, 52, of Uptown, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States has been set at $1 million bond. This was after he was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans.

On May 3, 1994, Aerosmith released the song “Crazy”, which was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Desmond Child. Its music video featured Kelly, Alicia Silverstone and Tyler’s daughter Liv Tyler.

Liv and Silverstone played schoolgirls while Kelly played a sweaty and shirtless farmer aboard a tractor tilling land in the music video, which was directed by Marty Callner. In the music video, Liv, Silverstone and Kelly’s characters go skinny dipping in a lake.

On March 1, 1995, “Crazy” was named the Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, USA. Its music video for was ranked number 23 on VH1’s list of 100 best music videos of all time.

Kelly allegedly sexually assaulted a girl, then 14, in February 2005. He allegedly sexually assaulted another girl, then 17, in November 2005.

In March 2011, New Orleans Police Department officers arrested Kelly. In 2013, he pleaded no contest to a pair of sexual battery counts and a charge of carnal knowledge of a juvenile.

District Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier handed Kelly a 10-year suspended sentence and five years of probation for sexual battery and felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile. In June 2014, the judge revoked his probation because he solicited women on Facebook and failed to register some of his phones with the sexual offender registry. 

In October 2015, Kelly was accused of trying to hire a fellow inmate at the Rayburn Correctional Center in Angie, Louisiana to kill Flemings-Davillier, his defense attorney Jason Williams, then Orleans Parish district attorney Leon Cannizzaro and a victim of a sex crime he was convicted of.

In 2021, Kelly pleaded guilty in Washington Parish, Louisiana to threatening a public official and was handed a 6-month suspended jail sentence with two years’ probation. After Kelly was released from prison on June 4, 2022, he allegedly used a fake name and his old photos to look for women on dating apps.

In October 2023, Kelly allegedly sexually assaulted a woman he met through a dating website. On December 7, 2023, he was arrested on charges of attempted third-degree rape and sexual battery.