Jackie Collins | 1937-2015

Sisters Joan and Jackie Collins at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2009 in West Hollywood.

Jackie Collins in 2014 after the publication of her book “Confessions of a Wild Child.” Collins recently revealed in a People interview that she’d been battling breast cancer.

Jackie Collins told People that she didn’t let cancer stop her from enjoying a full life. “I’ve written five books since the diagnosis, I’ve lived my life, I’ve travelled all over the world.”

Author Jackie Collins with a $150,000 Montblanc pen in 2004.

“If you wish to be successful, there is a place you should be at a certain time. And Los Angeles in the 1980s was it,” Jackie Collins told The Times.