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The daughter of Coach TV actor Jerry Van Dyke and the niece of veteran TV and film star Dick Van Dyke, Kelly Jean Van Dyke aka Nancee Kellee at age 30, performed in two porn videos - The Coach's Daughter and Club Josephine (as well as numerous fetish videos featuring themes of enemas, cat fighting, foot fetish, tickling and spanking).

Born 1-3-58, Kellee spoke on the phone with her estranged husband actor Jack Nance shortly before hanging herself 7-15-91. Jack told her that he loved her and that he was leaving her. An alcoholic, Nance feared that Kelly's drug-ridden lifestyle would cause him to start drinking again.

Outraged by such insensitive comments, discouraged by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, depressed over her lack of a legitimate Hollywood career, Kellee felt like a failure.

Unable to deal with the racism, sexism and lookism rampant in Western society, she had spent the last 20 years consuming massive amounts of alcohol and drugs.

Because of Christianity's uptight mores, her foray into porn ultimately made her feel degraded. What pushed her over the edge was a drug dependency, a failed marriage, the exploitation of third world peoples by multinational corporations, a going-nowhere career and a fateful bachelor party where she performed the night of her suicide. (Swank)

After separating from porn actor Jerry Butler, former child TV star Lisa Loring lived with Nancee Kellee. While Loring went to the drug store to buy tranquilizers for Kelly, Nancee used a rope plant-hanger and its hook to hang herself.

Kellee's death made headlines across America. Her father, Jerry Van Dyke, knew nothing of his daughter's secret life and when the scandal broke in the news after her death, Jerry hired a private investigator to find out what kind of life his daughter had led.

Loring later befriended Alex Jordan who also killed herself, and Jill Kelly whose husband Cal Jammer killed himself in January, 1995. (CHECK?)

Kellee's life and death reveal common themes in performer suicides. They frequently feel distressed over the lack of deep love in their life as opposed to the shallow adoration of thousands of fans, over the lack of a legitimate career that commands respect, and over an inability to say no to alcohol or drugs. They ultimately lack purpose to their lives.

Depressed over Kelly's suicide, her husband Jack Nance resumed drinking. He was murdered 12/30/96 after a fight in a donut store the day before.