joseph talbot "jt" cornell (born on or between june 7, 1959 and june 6, 1960- died december 2006) was the editor of a tabloid known as "daily private lives"; in 2001, he published the shocking revelation that crane heir ethan crane had been fathered, not by julian crane, but by police chief sam bennett, a fact kept secret by his mother, ivy crane. sometime after, jt was forced to flee the united states when the irs discovered that he had been evading taxes for many years.