Brenda Irene Dickson (born February 3, 1949) is an American actress who originated the role of Jill Foster Abbott on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

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Marriages
Dickson has been married twice. Her first husband was dentist Robert Rifkin whom she married on September 30, 1976. Dickson and Rifkin divorced in 1983. She married attorney Jan Weinberg on December 25, 1997. They were divorced in 2006.


Legal issues
In 2007, Dickson was jailed in Hawaii because of a civil contempt order stemming from a divorce judgment from her ex-husband, lawyer Jan Weinberg. She said she was the victim and wasn't given a fair divorce hearing. Released after 16 days, she was sent back to jail and eventually released after more than three months. In 2009, the judgment in Weinberg v. Dickson was set aside as an appeals court found that the judge in the original trial had abused his discretion in not guaranteeing Dickson a fair trial and that Dickson's imprisonment had been unlawful.