Jacqueline Jill Collins OBE was an English romance novelist. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times bestsellers list. Her books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television miniseries.
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Jacqueline Jill Collins OBE was an English romance novelist. She moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times bestsellers list. Her books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Eight of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television miniseries. She was the younger sister of Dame Joan Collins. Collins was born in 1937, in Hampstead, London, the younger daughter of Elsa Collins and Joseph William Collins. She attended Francis Holland School, an independent day school for girls in London and was expelled at age 15. During this period, she reportedly had a brief affair with 29-year-old Marlon Brando. She began appearing in acting roles in a series of British B movies in the 1950s. Her parents then sent her to L.A. to live with her older sister, Joan, a Hollywood actress. At eighteen, Collins moved back to England and began to focus on writing. In the 1980s, Collins and her family moved to LA on a full-time basis, where she would continue to write about the ‘rich and famous’ Her next novel, Lucky Santangelo, introduced one of her best-known characters, the gangster Santangelo.
Collins’ most commercially successful novel, Hollywood Wives, which sold over 15 million copies, placed her in a powerful position, making her a celebrity near her own daughter, Joan. She also wrote the screenplay for The World Is Full of Married Men, the film adaptation of her first novel. The Bitch was also made into a successful 1979 film, with Joan Collins reprising the role. Collins wrote an original screenplay for the film Yesterday’s Hero. She also released her seventh novel, The Bitches, a sequel to The Stud, in the late 1980s. She died in Los Angeles on November 25, 2013. She is survived by her husband, Oscar Lerman, and her daughter, Jackie. She has a son, John, and a daughter, Jacqueline, who lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons, John and John. The couple have three grandchildren, John Jr. and John III, and one great-grandchild.
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