Dunn was a close friend and lover of Sonja Henie . After the Olympic Games in 1936, he accompanied Henie to the USA and for the next two years became her ice skating partner on her show, with which she toured the USA. The relationship ended when Henie began an affair with Tyrone Power . Shortly thereafter, Jack Dunn died of complications from tularemia , which he contracted when he came into contact with an infected rabbit while hunting in Texas .