Dame Joan Collins claimed her first husband, actor Maxwell Reed, raped her on their first date and tried to pimp her out to “outdated rich males” for up to $13,500 (£10,000) a night.
The British actress, 88, recounted the assault in a BBC documentary on Saturday night time, claiming the Northern Irish movie celebrity, who was once 14 years her senior, had invited her over to his home and spiked her rum and coke. “In those days, my mother would have mentioned I used to be taken benefit of,” Collins recalled. “Now, we name it date rape.’
Collins mentioned Reed took her virginity and she ended up marrying him in 1952 “out of disgrace,” and over the direction of their four-year marriage used to be subjected to a steady stream of abuse. The ultimate straw got here when Reed allegedly tried to pimp her out to a sheikh.
“We have been in Les Ambassadeurs, a very sublime nightclub in Mayfair,” she said. “Max had a habit of gravitating towards wealthy, aged men, and I used to be starting to get a vague concept of what this was once all about. Max advised me, ‘He’ll pay you £10,000 for one night—and I will be able to even watch.’ I checked out my good-looking, loathsome husband and started to cry. ‘Never in 1,000,000 years.’ I went house to Mummy.”
The couple divorced in 1956, and Reed died in 1974. Collins went on to marry four more occasions, tying the knot with actor Anthony Newley, American businessman Ron Kass, singer Peter Holm, and present husband film producer Percy Gibson.
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