Five things you didn't know about Jackie Collins

Novelist, whose Hollywood 'bonkbuster' tales were read by millions, dies of breast cancer at 77

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 26:Author Jackie Collins arrives at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Sunset Tower on February 26, 2012 in West Hollywood, California.
(Image credit: 2012 Getty Images)

British-born author Jackie Collins has died of breast cancer in Los Angeles, aged 77. She will be remembered for her multimillion-selling, sex-filled romps about the lives of the rich and restless, but preferred a quiet married life herself.

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