Dame Joan Collins was spotted having dinner at Hollywood hotspot Craig’s with her fifth husband Percy Gibson.
The Dynasty icon, 89, was always glamorous, wrapping a black fur-lined jacket over a sleek white tunic with ruffled sleeves.
Percy, 57, a slim figure in a perfectly fitting midnight blue suit, was seen helping his wife out of the car ahead of their date.
About the city: Dame Joan Collins, 89, was spotted with her fifth husband Percy Gibson, 58, at Hollywood hotspot Craig’s dinner party.
Craig’s also regularly welcomed Joan’s sister, Jackie Collins, the best-selling author of “Bonkbuster,” who died in 2015 after a secret battle with cancer.
Percy, Joan’s surviving husband, is more than 30 years her junior, a hiatus she dismisses with the line “if he dies, he dies” in interviews.
Last year the couple, who have a home in Belgravia, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary with a star-studded party at Claridge’s.
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Caption: The Dynasty icon was more glamorous than ever, wrapping a black fur-lined jacket over a sleek white tunic with ruffled sleeves
As for her career, in 2020 Joan released a gossip book containing her diaries and last year starred in a BBC documentary about her life called This Is Joan Collins.
In an interview with The New York Times last year, she condemned the anti-male sentiment that she said had grown since the me-too movement.
“Unfortunately, I think that because of this increasing anti-masculinity, young men are now suffering from being labeled as toxic masculinity,” she shared.
Gentleman: A slim figure in a perfectly fitting midnight blue suit, Percy was spotted helping his wife out of the car ahead of their date
Meanwhile, she recalled that showbiz sexual misconduct “happened to girls all the time” when she was young. “A lot of times I just laughed in their faces.”
As for the misconduct that continues to this day, she said, “I don’t let men hit me, so I don’t know.” But I think probably.’
Although she told the newspaper that her own Me Too experiences were “bad memories that I don’t want to relive,” she included the details in her memoir, Past Imperfect.
Details: Percy, the longest living of her husbands, is more than 30 years younger than Joan, a decline she dismisses with the line “if he dies, he dies” in interviews.
The book had no shortage of dark moments, such as when 20th Century Fox boss Darryl Zanuck tried to force her down a hotel hallway.
“I wonder how I got out of this without kneeing in his groin,” she wrote. “Fortunately, Dorothy Dandridge and a makeup artist came down the hall and I was able to escape and promised to stay away from Mr. Z in future.”
Joan married her first husband Maxwell Reed at the age of 18, an actor who drank and raped her on their first date and eventually left after he tried to sell her to an Arab sheikh for £10,000 for ‘ a night to sell.
Her next ex-husbands included Anthony Newley, with whom she had her daughter Tara and son Sacha.
On the road: She joked with Jonathan Ross in 2020 that her marriage to Percy had lasted as long as their previous four marriages combined
She is also married to former Beatles manager Ron Kass, the father of her daughter Katie, and former pop actor Peter Holm, whom she now refers to disparagingly as “the Swede”.
Joan recently said that of all her marriages, “the only one I didn’t understand was to the Swede. It was such a total mistake.’
Her marriage to Peter Holm also caused a temporary rift with Jackie, who despised him but mended fences with Joan when they split.
When Joan threw a party to celebrate the divorce, Jackie handed out T-shirts that read “Holm is not where the heart is” and “Holm-less.”
However, now Joan has found the right man – she joked with Jonathan Ross in 2020 that her marriage to Percy lasted as long as their previous four marriages together.
Flashback to 1983: Craig’s also regularly welcomed Joan’s sister, Jackie Collins, the best-selling “Bonkbuster” author who died in 2015 after a secret battle with cancer
Source: Daily Mail
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