Who was Joan Collins sister Jackie?
JACKIE Collins was a best selling novelist and the sister of Dynasty star Joan Collins. Jackie Collins passed away in 2015. She was born in Paddington, London and was the daughter of Elsa Collins (ne Bessant), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins who was an agent and had clients including Shirley Bassey, the Beatles, and Tom Jones. She was educated at the Francis Holland School, an independent day school for girls in London - but was expelled at age 15. According to reports, it was around this time that she had a brief affair with 29-year-old Marlon Brando. She began appearing in acting roles in British movies in the 1950s. Her parents then sent her to Los Angeles to live with her older sister, Joan. Jackie began taking minor parts in low budget movies and television shows but gave up on pursuing an acting career. 3 The glamerous sisters grew up in Paddington Credit: Rex Features  At eighteen, Collins moved back to England and began to focus on writing and her first book, The World Is Full of Married Men (1968), became a best-seller in 1968. The book was banned in Australia and South Africa. She went on to write nearly 30 successful books - many of which were adapted for film. Over her lifetime she sold more than 500million books worldwide. In the early 1980s, she moved back to LA and settled there with husband number two Oscar Lerman and daughter Tracy from her first, short-lived marriage to Wallace Austin. She and Lerman had two more daughters before he died of prostate cancer in 1992. Last year her sister Joan revealed that a collection of stories written by Jackie when she was 11-years-old could now be published. They were discovered in exercise books when preparing for an auction of the late author's belongings. Jackie Collins died September 19 2015, of breast cancer, just two weeks before her 78th birthday. She had been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer six years before her death - but kept it a complete secret. She reportedly only told her sister two weeks before she died. Most read in Uncategorized DRUG ARREST Boy, 2, fights for life after 'eating cannabis' as 5 arrested for child cruelty Graphic Warning MINDLESS ACT Road rage driver, 19, jailed after leaving elderly man with fractured jaw RACE GROUP DUMPED Woke group 'assessing' Churchill's views on race & British Empire axed Exclusive DI'S DREAMS Diana wanted Charles to leave her with the boys and hoped to find freedom CAUGHT OUT Couple who left dogs in hot car & 'stole tips skipped out on 80 Harvester bill' Exclusive 'PLEASE, NO!' Moment mum dragged from car by knife thugs as she begs to let her save baby