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Dame Joan Collins (Arte): Raped at 17, why did the Dynasty star have to marry her attacker?

After a chaotic career in the cinema, the actress knows her glory thanks to television in the 80s.

From London to Hollywood, Joan Collins’ rich career, the dashing eighty and the iconic face of the 1980s “Dynasty” series…

17-year-old drugged and raped

While still a novice actor, she fell in love with 32-year-old British actor Maxwell Reed, who was a star at the time. She is only 17 years old, the man takes her to a party where she is drugged and abused. Fearing scandal, he marries her in 1952. The couple will divorce four years later. The downed player will demand alimony from him. Joan Collins, who has been married and divorced four times, married Percy Gibson, a producer thirty-two years younger than her, in February 2002.

Rescued by “Dynasty”

In the early 80s, the actress was ruined, her career came to a standstill. His manager offered him the role of villain Alexis Morell Carrington from the Dynasty series. A default choice. “The producers wanted Liz Taylor, Sophia Loren or Raquel Welch. »

nude at Playboy

In 1984, 51-year-old Joan Collins caused a sensation by posing nude for Playboy magazine. Her dynasty partner, John Forsythe, explodes in anger. ” He walked into the producer’s office and shouted, “It’s embarrassing our beautiful drama!” “Remembers the interested party, has fun.

Dame Joan Collins at Arte on Friday, June 2 at 22:30

HACENE CHOUCHAOUI

Source: Programme Television

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