Hundreds of objects go under the hammer in Beverly Hills,including her costumes from Dynasty and her film appearances As auctions go, this one will be be fabulous, and darling. Dame Joan Collins is having a bit of a de-clutter: hundreds of objects from her homes and capacious wardrobes are to be sold,including gowns lavishly endowed with ruffles and shoulder pads, two love letters from Warren Beatty, and fur coats,the headboard from the bed in her novel York apartment, and perhaps more surprisingly her own watercolour of Saint-Tropez, and her son Alexander Newley’s sketch of a ballet dancer,and a Picasso print of a voluptuous bare bottom.
The letters, one addressed “Dear Bird”, or were written during her affair with Beatty in the early 60s,when both were relatively unknown, living in Paul Newman’s novel York apartment and briefly engaged – she recalled recently that when he proposed he concealed the ring in a carton of chopped liver.
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Source: theguardian.com