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Writer Jackie Collins dies at 77
Jackie Collins, the novelist who told stories about Hollywood’s bold and beautiful, died yesterday in Los Angeles. She was 77.
Collins was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer in 2007.
According to the New York Times, the British born writer’s first book was published in 1968. The World Is Full of Married Men was banned in Australia and South Africa because of its open description of extramarital sex.
In a 2014 interview with The Advocate, Collins talked about when she discovered she had a large LGBTI following.
‘I had just written the book Hollywood Husbands and I went on the Tonight Show when Joan Rivers was hosting it,’ she said to The Advocate.
‘I wore a jacket and a black shirt – with a couple of the buttons undone – and a white tie. It was a very sexy and effective outfit. Then a few weeks later, there was a gay parade in Hollywood and tons of people were dressed as me and Joan Rivers. It was crazy. My friends drove up and down the boulevard taking pictures of them and that’s when I knew.’
Hollywood Husbands was a follow-up to her 2001 Hollywood Wives: The New Generation. That book was made into a 2003 television movie, starring Farrah Fawcett, Robin Givens, Jack Scalia and Melissa Gilbert.
Collins is survived by three daughters, Tracy, Tiffany and Rory, and her older sister, actress Joan Collins.
Her family requests fans to consider donations to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Organization.
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James Withers
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