Best-selling author Jackie Collins, whose 32 hugely popular but often controversial steamy novels chronicled the fast and extravagant life of the Hollywood glamorous set and of Mafia families, died on Saturday, reports said. She was 77.
The cause of death was breast cancer, her family said in a statement, reported the New York Times.
“It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one-of-a-kind mother,” the statement said.
In a career spanning four decades, all 32 of her novels appeared in the New York Times bestseller list.
The family statement said the writer lived “a wonderfully full life”, adored by family, friends and readers.
Collins was diagnosed with stage-four breast cancer six-and-a-half years ago, according to US celebrity magazine People.
She told the magazine in her last interview on 14 September that she had told few people about her diagnosis other than her three daughters, and did not regret her decision.
“I’ve written five books since the diagnosis, I’ve lived my life, I’ve travelled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no-one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it.”: she said in her last interview
The British-American author, who moved to Los Angeles in 1980, was the younger sister of acclaimed actress Joan Collins.
Collins’s raunchy novels of the rich and famous sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries, according to foreign TV channel.
Born on October 4, 1937 in London, Jacqueline Jill “Jackie” Collins debuted with The World is Full of Married Men, about a middle-aged philandering advertising executive in London of the Swinging Sixties.
She also wrote the screenplay for several of her novels adapted into films or TV series.
She was in the UK less than a fortnight ago on a promotional tour for her latest book “Scandalous bestseller”
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