Dame Joan Collins was spotted enjoying dinner at Hollywood hotspot Craig’s with her fifth husband, Percy Gibson.
The Dynasty icon, 89, looked as glamorous as ever, wrapping a black fur-lined jacket over a sleek white tunic with ruffled sleeves.
Percy, 57, who cut a dapper figure in a perfectly fitting midnight blue suit, was seen gallantly helping his wife out of the car ahead of their date.
On the town: Dame Joan Collins, 89, was spotted having dinner at Hollywood hotspot Craig’s with her fifth husband Percy Gibson, 58
Craig’s also regularly received Joan’s sister Jackie Collins, the best-selling author of the Bonkbuster novel who died in 2015 after a secret battle with cancer.
Percy, the longest-lived of Joan’s husbands, is more than 30 years her junior, a lapse she brushes off in interviews with the line, “If he dies, he dies.”
Last year the couple, who have a home in Belgravia, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary with a star-studded party at Claridge’s.
Simon Cowell, Elizabeth Hurley and Sarah “Fergie” Ferguson took part in OK! Magazine.
Legend: The Dynasty icon looked as glamorous as ever, wrapping a black fur-lined jacket over a sleek white tunic with ruffled sleeves
On the career front, Joan released a gossip book of her diaries in 2020 and last year she starred in a BBC documentary about her life called This Is Joan Collins.
In an interview with The New York Times last year, she slammed the anti-male sentiment she says has grown since the me-too movement.
“Unfortunately, I think that because of this increasing anti-masculinity, young men suffer from being labeled toxic masculine,” she shared.
Gentleman: Percy, who cuts an elegant figure in a perfectly fitting midnight blue suit, was spotted gallantly helping his wife out of the car before their date
Meanwhile, she recalled that showbiz sexual misconduct “happened with girls all day” when she was young. “Often I just laughed in their faces.”
As for whether the misconduct continues to this day, she noted: “I don’t let men pass me by, so I don’t know. But I think probably.’
Though she told the paper her own experience with Me Too was “bad memories that I don’t want to relive,” she included the details in her memoir, Past Imperfect.
Details: Percy, the longest-lived of her husbands, is more than 30 years younger than Joan, a lapse she dismisses in interviews with the line, “If he dies, he dies.”
The book had no shortage of darker moments, such as when 20th Century Fox boss Darryl Zanuck tried to impose himself on her in a hotel hallway.
“I was wondering how to get out of this without having to kneel him in the groin,” she wrote. “Luckily, Dorothy Dandridge and a makeup man came down the corridor and I was able to escape and vowed to avoid Mr. Z in the future.”
Joan was married at 18 to her first husband Maxwell Reed, an actor who spiked her drink and raped her on their first date and whom she eventually left after he tried to sell her to an Arab sheikh for £10,000 for a night .
Her later ex-husbands included Anthony Newley, with whom she had her daughter Tara and son Sacha.
On the road: She joked with Jonathan Ross in 2020 that her marriage to Percy lasted as long as their previous four marriages combined
She also married former Beatles manager Ron Kass, the father of her daughter Katie, and ex-pop act Peter Holm, whom she now disparagingly refers to as “the Swede”.
Joan recently remarked that of all her marriages, “the only one I didn’t understand was to the Swede. That was such a total mistake.’
Her marriage to Peter Holm also caused a temporary rift with Jackie, who despised him but fixed fences with Joan after their split.
When Joan threw a party to celebrate the divorce, Jackie gave out T-shirts that read “spar isn’t where the heart is” and “spar-less.”
Now, however, Joan has found the right man – she joked with Jonathan Ross in 2020 that her marriage to Percy lasted as long as their previous four marriages combined.
Flashback to 1983: Craig’s also regularly welcomed Joan’s sister Jackie Collins, the best-selling author of the “Bonkbuster” novel, who died in 2015 after a secret battle with cancer