Occupation: CEO of Titan Artists Group

Children: Sheldon Novak

Relationships: Rachel Novak

Appearances: Seasons 5 & 6

Who’d Play Him: James Remar

Hollywood’s Keeper of Secrets: Long before becoming one of Los Angeles’s most successful talent agents, Vaughan Novak worked behind the scenes for legendary producer Jonas Lamont. As Lamont’s trusted fixer, Vaughan was responsible for protecting the stars of Lamont 3 whenever their private misconduct threatened the studio. Accidents were covered up, evidence disappeared, and careers were preserved—leaving Vaughan as one of the few people who knew where Hollywood’s most damaging secrets had been buried.

Among the scandals Vaughan helped conceal was the truth surrounding actress Lola Rydell and her twin sister, Lana. When an exhausted Lola temporarily withdrew from public life, Lana secretly assumed her identity and continued her career. After Lola returned and demanded her life back, the sisters struggled and Lana fell to her death. Jonas staged the incident as an accident, while Vaughan helped ensure that the deception remained hidden. He also protected actor Jack Childers after a young woman disappeared from his yacht, covered up actress Elana Hendricks’s fatal hit-and-run accidents, and erased evidence surrounding the death of Bianca Burnett, who overdosed at a party attended by Nathan Blackthorne and Victor Distefano.

Years later, those buried crimes returned to threaten everyone involved. A mysterious attacker began targeting the aging stars of Lamont 3, leaving photographs of their forgotten victims at each crime scene. Because Vaughan was the only surviving person who knew every secret, he quickly became a suspect. His innocence became apparent when he was present during an attempt on Nathan and Victor’s lives, but the investigation forced him to confess the full extent of his past as Jonas’s fixer.

Vaughan’s loyalty to Victor proved especially complicated. After Victor was believed to have died in the fire aboard his yacht, Vaughan secretly found him alive and nursed him back to health. He arranged multiple reconstructive surgeries, ensured that Victor resumed taking his medication, and concealed him in the basement of his home. Vaughan insisted that the man he had saved was stable and deserved another chance, despite Victor’s long history of manipulating and terrorizing the Rydells and Blackthornes. When Alex Reynolds discovered the truth, Victor’s return reignited old hatreds and placed Vaughan at the center of another family crisis.

After leaving his work as a fixer behind, Vaughan reinvented himself as a powerful talent agent. His reputation and industry connections made him valuable to ambitious performers such as Kelly Kahoano-Blackthorne, who sought his help when her career began to falter. Vaughan understood better than most that talent alone rarely guaranteed success in Hollywood; careers were created through leverage, publicity, and knowing which secrets could be used when negotiations failed.

Vaughan is also the father of Sheldon Novak. While Sheldon tends to respond to other people’s pain with patience and compassion, Vaughan is more calculating and comfortable using influence to achieve his goals. Their contrasting temperaments often reveal the divide between a son trying to remain decent and a father shaped by decades of cleaning up Hollywood’s ugliest behavior.