Joan Collins, 89, radiates agelessness on dinner date with husband Percy Gibson, 57, in West Hollywood
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA: Joan Collins seems to be growing more beautiful as she grows older, and during her recent outing with her husband, Percy Gibson, at Craig's, a popular restaurant in West Hollywood, she looked as radiant as ever. The 89-year-old 'Dynasty' star wore a chic white tunic with frilled sleeves over a black fur-lined jacket.
Gibson, 57, looked handsome in a superbly tailored midnight blue suit very as he assisted Collins wife out of the car. The best-selling author and Collins' sister, Jackie, who died in 2015 after a covert cancer struggle, used to be a frequent guest at Craig's.
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Gibson is almost 30 years younger than Collins, a difference she downplays in interviews with the phrase, "If he dies, he dies." The couple celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary with a star-studded gala at Claridge's in 2022. According to OK! magazine, Simon Cowell, Elizabeth Hurley, and Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson attended the event.
On the professional front, Collins published a book of her diaries in 2020, and she appeared in the BBC documentary, 'This Is Joan Collins', in 2022. She criticized the anti-men mindset that she believes has gotten worse since the Me Too movement in an interview with the New York Times in the same year. "Sadly, I think that now young men are suffering from being labeled toxically masculine, because of this rise of anti-maleness," she reportedly said.
Collins recalled that sexual misconduct "happened to girls all the time" in showbiz when she was young. "A lot of the time, I would just laugh in their faces," she said. Commenting on whether the misbehavior has persisted to this day, she said, "I’m not having men making passes at me, so I don’t know. But I think probably."
Collins spoke about the specifics of her personal Me Too experiences in her biography 'Past Imperfect,' despite telling the newspaper they were "nasty memories that I don't wish to relive," as per Daily Mail. There were plenty of gloomier passages in the book, including when 20th Century Fox CEO Darryl Zanuck tried to impose himself on her in a hotel hallway. "I wondered how to get out of this without having to knee him in the groin. 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," she wrote.
At the age of 18, Collins married Maxwell Reed, an actor who drugged her and sexually assaulted her. She eventually divorced him after he tried to sell her for a night to an Arab sheik for $12,388. Anthony Newley, with whom she had children Tara and Sacha, was one of her later ex-husbands.
She also married Peter Holm, an ex-pop musician whom she now dismissively calls the "Swede," and Ron Kass, a former Beatles manager with whom she had her daughter Katie. She finally settled down with Gibson, jokingly stating in 2020 that her marriage to him had lasted as long as her previous four unions put together.
