Nathan Dean was the father of Whitney Dean and former husband of estranged wife Debra Dean. Debra walked out on Nathan and Whitney when the latter was very young, leaving Nathan to look after Whitney himself. In 2002, he began a relationship with Bianca Jackson, who acts as a mother to Whitney, and believed he was the father of Bianca's unborn daughter Tiffany, although Tiffany is actually the child of Ricky Butcher . In December 2002, Nathan was killed in a traffic accident, leaving a pregnant Bianca to become Whitney's guardian.