The Buzz | Novelist who sold 500m books dies at 77

Jackie Collins, the novelist whose raunchy tales of glamor and fame sold more than 500 million books in a writing career spanning almost a half century, has died. She was 77. Collins died of breast cancer on Saturday, her family said in a statement posted on her website. Her older sister, the actress Joan Collins, told People magazine she was “completely devastated”.
Jackie Collins was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer six and half years ago, according to an article in People, but only revealed her condition publicly in an interview with the magazine last week.
“I’ve written five books since the diagnosis, I’ve lived my life, I’ve traveled 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 told the magazine.