Other deaths: Jackie Collins, Sultan Esmail Kiram II, Marcin Wrona

Other deaths: Jackie Collins, Sultan Esmail Kiram II, Marcin Wrona,Jackie Collins, the acknowledged columnist of dozens of novels such as "Hollywood Wives," which dramatized the lifestyles of the affluent and the treacherous, died Saturday.

Collins died of breast blight in Los Angeles, said arranger Melody Korenbrot. Collins was 77.

"She lived a affably abounding activity and was adored by her family, accompany and the millions of readers who she has been absorbing for over four decades," Collins' ancestors said in a statement. "She was a accurate inspiration, a trailblazer for women in fiction and a artistic force. She will reside on through her characters, but we already absence her above words."

Unlike her earlier sister Joan Collins, the "Dynasty" extra who was a absolute allotment of the 1980s Hollywood glitterati, Jackie Collins chose to certificate LA lives in her pulpy, page-turning fiction.

Collins wrote what she knew, and that meant belief of sex, glamour, ability and added sex, a lot added sex. She began her arcane career adage added than some capital to hear, and eventually became the affectionate of columnist from whom readers could never get enough, accouterment a forerunner to the ability of "Desperate Housewives" and "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."

Collins said in a 2011 account that she "never acquainted abashed autograph about sex."

"As a writer, you can never anticipate about who is traveling to apprehend your books. Is it traveling to be my mom? My children? A lot of humans say to me, 'Oh, I apprehend your books beneath a awning with a flashlight if I was absolutely adolescent and I abstruse aggregate I apperceive about sex from you.' ... I anticipate I've helped people's sex lives. Sex is a active force in the world, so I don't anticipate it's abnormal that I address about sex. I try to accomplish it erotic, too."

Sultan Esmail Kiram II

MANILA, Philippines -- The baton of a sultanate in the southern Philippines that staged a 2013 aggression of a alive Malaysian accompaniment and sparked a baleful aegis crisis has died of branch failure, his ancestors and followers said Sunday.

Sultan Esmail Kiram II died at age 76 backward Saturday at a hospital in southern Zamboanga city-limits and larboard an adjustment for his followers to accompany a affirmation to Sabah accompaniment in adjoining Malaysia, according to sultanate agent Abraham Idjirani.

Marcin Wrona

WARSAW, Poland -- Polish blur administrator Marcin Wrona, whose abhorrence cine "Demon" fabricated its apple premiere endure anniversary in Toronto, has died accidentally at age 42, the civic blur authorities said Saturday.

The administrator of Poland's Blur Festival, Michal Oleszczyk, asked for no belief over Wrona's afterlife until the badge and prosecutors' investigations are complete.
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