For fifty years Dolly Parton has worked her way up in the music business to become a legendary country music icon, but despite her success she has managed to keep her private life out of the public view. An impoverished girl in Appalachia, Dolly went on to transform the country music industry, all while married to her elusive husband Carl Dean. Throughout her meteoric rise, National Enquirer chronicles the rumors of scandalous affairs, the shocking plastic surgeries, health scares, and more as the star perseveres despite the odds.

• Steve Eifert
• Dennise Renae Larson