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Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins (born 4 October 1937), is a British-born novelist. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins and the elder sister of real estate developer Bill Collins.
Collins was born in London, England, to Joseph William "Will" Collins (a South African-born Jewish theatrical agent), and Elsa Bessant Collins, a dancer. Jackie is listed as Jewish on several sites. She has one sister, the actress Joan Collins (b.1933), and a brother, Bill Collins (b. 1946). She attended secondary school at the Francis Holland School in central London. However, after what seemed to be a sunny childhood in England, Collins was expelled from high school for poor attendance in 1952. Her parents swiftly sent her to live with her sister, Joan Collins, who at the time was starting what would be a roller-coaster career in Los Angeles. As she later said her parents were fed up with her and no longer felt they could handle her, so they gave her an ultimatum: reform school or Hollywood. "So I went, 'I think I'm gonna go with Hollywood'".
While living in Hollywood, Collins attempted to start a film career. The attempt proved fruitless, with Collins appearing in only a handful of forgettable films.
Disillusioned, Collins left Los Angeles and returned to London - claiming to have just had an affair with Marlon Brando - where she married her first husband, jet-setter Wallace Austin, in 1955. They had a daughter, Tracy, but it was not a happy union. Disgusted with her husband's drug abuse, Collins was not surprised when he abandoned her after only a few years of marriage. She divorced him soon after and went to live with her parents at their flat in north London. He was found dead in a car in Hampshire in 1964. Collins would later recall it as "a tragic marriage. He was really very sick. He was a manic depressive. A fabulous person. But he was put on drugs - methadrine - for the depression."
In 1966 Collins married for the second time, to art gallery and Tramp Nightclub owner, Oscar Lerman. Together they had two daughters, Tiffany and Rory. Additionally, Lerman formally adopted Collins's daughter Tracy.
Collins is rumoured to possess a fortune in the neighborhood of $200 million (USD), although the Sunday Times Rich List estimates it at £70 million (GBP, equals about $135 million USD) as of 2006.
She resides in Beverly Hills, California and is currently working on her 26th novel to be titled "Married Lovers".
In 2004 Collins created a series of specials for E!, which she hosted to great success. She also left her publisher of nearly twenty years, Simon & Schuster, in favour of St. Martin's Press as she grew restless with her current publishing situation. She has also signed a new deal with Fremantle Television to create a television series based on heiresses.
To date she has sold over 400 million copies of her novels which have been translated into 40 languages.
Novels
- The World is Full of Married Men (1968)
- The Stud (1969)
- Sinners (a.k.a. - Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick) (1971)
- Lovehead (a.k.a. - The Love Killers) (1974)
- The World is Full of Divorced Women (1975)
- Lovers & Gamblers (1977)
- The Bitch (1979)
- Rock Star (1988)
- American Star (1993)
- Thrill (1998)
- Lovers & Players (2006)
- Married Lovers (to be published 2008)
Hollywood Series
- Hollywood Wives (1983)
- Hollywood Husbands (1986)
- Hollywood Kids (1994)
- Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2001)
- Hollywood Divorces (2003)
Lucky Santangelo Series
- Chances (1981)
- Lucky (1985)
- Lady Boss (1990)
- Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge (1996)
- Dangerous Kiss (1999)
- Drop Dead Beautiful - The Continuing Adventures Of Lucky Santangelo (2007)
Madison Castelli Series
- L. A. Connections (serialised novel):
- Power (1998)
- Obsession (1998)
- Murder (1998)
- Revenge (1998)
- Lethal Seduction (2000)
- Deadly Embrace (2002) |
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