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Jackie Collins is an English novelist and former actress younger sister of actress Joan Collins.
Jackie Collins legendary career penning fiction novels about the glamorous lives of Hollywood’s rich, famous and infamous has spanned decades.
Collins was born in LONDON, the daughter of Elsa Bessant and Joseph William Collins, a theatrical agent whose clients included SHIRELY , THE BEATLES and TOM JOANS , Collins'sSouh Africa -born father was jewish and her British mother was Anglican .A middle child, Collins has one sister, actress Joan collins (b.1933), and a younger brother, Bill Collins (b. 1946).
At 15, Collins was expelled from school, after she had been expelled, she threw her school uniform in the Thames .
Collins’ nearly 30 novels featuring a total of about 1,000 characters have sold more than 400 million copies.!!!! WOOOW !!
Jackie Collins has been the queen of the Hollywood roman à clef for 40 years. Her latest,
“Poor Little Bitch Girl,” out Tuesday, gives us more of the juicy same: the jet set, celebrity call girls, corrupt senators and the movie-star murder that ties them all together.
Collins, 72, said COMMENTING on hollywood: ( Hollywood has changed considerably since she first started writing about it.)
"When I wrote 'Hollywood Wives,' the book that really put me out there, that was in the '80s and the wives of the talk-show hosts and the moguls and the producers ran Hollywood."
It was a very social town back then, she explained, with deals made at the tennis matches, dinner parties, home screenings and nights-out that those Hollywood wives orchestrated.
"I don't think that happens today at all," she said. "I think the whole industry today is run by business suits."
