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October 1937 – 19 September 2015) was an English romance novelist. She moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s and

spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared

on The New York

Times bestsellers list. Her books have

sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages. Eight

of her novels have been adapted for the screen, either as films or television

miniseries. She was the younger sister of Dame Joan Collins. Collins was born in 1937, in Hampstead,

London, the younger daughter of Elsa (née Bessant) Collins (died 1962) and

Joseph William Collins (died 1988), a theatrical agent whose clients later

included Dame Shirley Bassey, the Beatles, and Sir Tom Jones. Collins's

South African-born father was Jewish, and her British mother was Anglican. A middle child, Collins had an elder sister, Joan Collins (actress and author), and a younger brother,

Bill (who became a property agent). Collins attended Francis Holland School, an

independent day school for girls in London and was expelled at age 15. During

this period, she reportedly had a brief affair with 29-year-old Marlon Brando. She began appearing in acting roles in a series

of British B movies in the 1950s. Her parents then sent her to Los Angeles to

live with her older sister, Joan, a Hollywood actress. There, Collins

tried acting in small parts in low budget British films, including Barnacle Bill (1957), Rock You Sinners (1957), The Safecracker (1958), Intent to Kill (1958), Passport to Shame (1958), and The Shakedown (1960),

in which she was credited as Lynn Curtis. After minor appearances in such

television series as Danger Man and The Saint, Collins

gave up on pursuing an acting career, although she did play briefly on the

television series Minder in 1980. At

eighteen, Collins moved back to England and began to focus on writing. Her first book, The World Is Full of

Married Men (1968), became a best-seller. Four decades

later, she admitted she was a "school dropout" and "juvenile

delinquent" when she was 15: "I'm glad I got all of that out of my

system at an early age," she said, adding that she "never

pretended to be a literary writer."