British author Jackie Collins has died at the age of 77 from breast cancer, according to her family.

She is widely known for her novels about the extravagance and glamour of life in Hollywood.

Jackie sadly passed away on Saturday in Los Angeles. She is survived by her three daughters, Tracy, Tiffany, Rory, and her sister Joan.

Jacqueline Jill “Jackie” Collins was born on Oct. 4, 1937 in London and published her first novel in 1968.

According to NY Times;

“She wrote more than 30 books, many of them filled with explicit, unrestrained s*xuality, and sold more than 500 million copies worldwide. Her first novel, “The World Is Full of Married Men,” was published in 1968. Australia and South Africa banned it because of its frank depiction of extramarital sex. Other earlier works included “The Stud,” in 1969, and “Rock Star,” in 1988.

Many of Ms. Collins’s novels became fodder for movies and television mini-series. She was found to have stage-four breast cancer in 2007, and has written five books since then. Her latest, 600-plus-page novel, “The Santangelos,” was published in June.

Ms. Collins, the younger sister of the actress Joan Collins, wrote her books in longhand on either white printer paper or yellow legal pads, regularly churning out prodigious numbers of pages.

Ms. Collins’s second husband, Oscar Lerman, died of cancer in 1992 after the couple had been married for 27 years. Four years later, her fiancé, Frank Calcagnini, died of brain cancer.”