She has been in show business for seven decades.
And Joan Collins looked agelessly radiant while stepping out to dinner in Los Angeles this Thursday evening.
The 87-year-old Dynasty star and her fifth husband Percy Gibson, 56, were spotted heading to the celebrity hot spot Craig’s in West Hollywood.
Looking fab: Joan Collins looked agelessly radiant while stepping out to dinner in Los Angeles this Thursday evening
Dame Joan cut a typically chic figure in a floral dress with a black blazer and a fur-trimmed black wrap, rounding off the look with a sleek pair of boots.
Meanwhile Percy, a former theater manager who hails from Peru, put a dapper spin on California casual by teaming a blazer and buttoned shirt with jeans.
In a fashionable flourish Percy also included a pocket square with his ensemble, walking hand in hand with his wife to the restaurant.
The longest-lasting of her husbands, Percy is more than 30 years younger than Joan, a gap she dismisses in interviews with the line: ‘If he dies, he dies.’
Arm in arm: The 87-year-old Dynasty star and her fifth husband Percy Gibson, 56, were spotted heading to the celebrity hot spot Craig’s in West Hollywood
Craig’s was also a favorite haunt of Joan’s younger sister Jackie Collins, the bonkbuster novelist who died in 2015 after a secret cancer battle.
A few months ago Joan dished to the Mail On Sunday’s You magazine that she once turned down a pass from Robert F. Kennedy.
‘Ethel, his widow, is still alive so I really don’t want to go into it too much because I wouldn’t want to hurt her,’ she added diplomatically.
‘That was one of the things I said to him: “I’m married, you’re married.” But he was so charismatic,’ the screen queen noted.
Legging it: Dame Joan cut a typically chic figure in a floral dress with a black blazer and a fur-trimmed black wrap, rounding off the look with a sleek pair of boots
Joan, who once starred in a movie called The B**** adapted by Jackie from one of her own novels, has had a long and successful side-career as a raconteuse.
She has performed one-woman shows about her life with help from Percy and is also the author of multiple saucy books.
Her memoir Past Imperfect delivered a raft of stories about her career and love life, which included a turbulent engagement to Warren Beatty.
The London-born daughter of a theatrical agent, she enjoyed several affairs in between – and sometimes overlapping with – her various marriages.
Snappy: Meanwhile Percy, a former theater manager who hails from Peru, put a dapper spin on California casual by teaming a blazer and buttoned shirt with jeans
On the move: In a fashionable flourish Percy also included a pocket square with his ensemble, walking hand in hand with his wife to the restaurant
Joan dallied with 1970s film hunk Ryan O’Neal while she was Mrs. Anthony Newley, and while single ran around with Elizabeth Taylor’s first ex-husband Nicky Hilton.
She also enjoyed the company of Ramfis Trujillo, the short-lived playboy son of the infamously brutal Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
The memoir had no shortage of darker moments such as when 20th Century Fox capo Darryl Zanuck attempted to force himself on Joan in a hotel hallway.
All in the family: Craig’s was also a favorite haunt of Joan’s younger sister Jackie Collins, the bonkbuster novelist who died in 2015 after a cancer battle
‘Charismatic’: A few months ago Joan dished to the Mail On Sunday’s You magazine that she once turned down a pass from Robert F. Kennedy
Raconteuse: She has performed one-woman shows about her life with help from Percy and is also the author of multiple saucy books
‘I wondered how to get out of this without having to knee him in the groin,’ she recalled. ‘Luckily Dorothy Dandridge and a makeup man came walking down the corridor and I made my escape, vowing to keep out of Mr Z.’s way in the future.’
Joan was married at 18 to her actor first husband Maxwell Reed, who spiked her drink and raped her on their first date and whom she eventually left after he attempted to sell her for an night to an Arab sheikh for £10,000.
Her later ex-husbands were Anthony, with whom she had her daughter Tara and son Sacha, erstwhile Beatles manager Ron Kass, who sired her daughter Katie, and ex-pop act Peter Holm, whom she dismissively referred to post-divorce as ‘the Swede.’
Throwback to 2020: The longest-lasting of her husbands, Percy is more than 30 years younger than Joan, a gap she dismisses in interviews with the line: ‘If he dies, he dies’