James Dean died without a will, his father inherited, his wrecked Porsche vanished in 1960, and his estate sued Twitter over @JamesDean

James Dean died at 24 when his Porsche 550 Spyder hit another car near Cholame on 30 September 1955. He had made three films and no will. Under California intestacy law most of his estate, put at about $96,000 to $100,000^†, went to his father, Winton Dean, who had sent him to be raised by relatives in Fairmount, Indiana. Customizer George Barris bought the wreck and sold its parts. The chassis went on a safe-driving tour and vanished in 1960 on the way back to Los Angeles from Florida; Barris said by truck and also by train, and produced no shipping record. The "curse" of the car is a legend: it began in the magazine Whisper in 1956 and grew in Barris's 1974 book. Winton Dean died in February 1995, aged 88, and Dean's cousin Marcus Winslow Jr. received most of his belongings^†. CMG Worldwide licenses the name for James Dean, Inc. Indiana law protects a celebrity's likeness for 100 years after death. On 31 December 2013 the estate sued Twitter and the anonymous fan behind @JamesDean, an account opened in 2009, in Hamilton Superior Court, seeking damages and the account. The case was moved to federal court in the Southern District of Indiana, and Twitter later suspended the account. No final ruling was reported^†.