Joan Collins, 90, radiates Old Hollywood glamour as she poses with Pierce Brosnan at Prince’s Trust lunch in Beverly Hills

Dame Joan Collins oozed showbiz glamor as she turned up in Beverly Hills this week for a glamorous event with her fifth husband Percy Gibson.

The legendary actress gave away no trace of her 90s years as she caused a storm at the Maybourne hotel on Percy’s arm.

Percy, Joan’s surviving husband, is more than thirty years her junior, a gap she dismisses in interviews by joking, “If he dies, he dies.”

They attended the Prince’s Trust x Dame Joan Collins DBE Lunch, celebrating Joan’s association with the charity founded by the current King Charles III in the 1970s.

While there, she was pictured with James Bond-turned-silver fox Pierce Brosnan, 70, who flashed his unmistakable smile for the cameras.

For their latest outing, she paired a sleek hot pink jacket with an elegant black and pink floral patterned gown straight out of the Dynasty era.

She enhanced her features with makeup, including a touch of pink lipstick, and adorned herself with jewelry, including an elaborate necklace.

Pierce sat next to Joan during lunch, where the guest of honor stood up at one point to cheerfully address those present.

The celebrity-studded guest list included Renfield heartthrob Nicholas Hoult, who went ultra-casual in a T-shirt that exposed his toned arms.

Victoria Gore, Margot McKinney, Jeremy Green and Stephen Fry all joined Pierce, Joan and Nicholas for a group photo to remember.

Paris Hilton’s mother Kathy Hilton was also present at the festivities, which she attended with her steamy son Barron Hilton II.

Joan received her Damehood in 2015 and was presented with the honor by Charles, then Prince of Wales, who commented: ‘And it’s about time too.’

Currently, Joan is still swirling in the publicity whirlwind for her 19th and latest book, Behind The Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends.

Appears on KCAL News last week in Los Angeles, she clarified that her new release “isn’t really a memoir, so I’m not doing all that stuff about, you know, ‘Oh, my parents,’ and all that, where a lot of people think, ‘Oh, I doesn’t want to read about her childhood,” and all that. You can go read my other books.”

Meanwhile, Behind The Shoulder Pads is full of “funny stories and anecdotes,” dating back to her early career in the waning days of old Hollywood.

The book is sprinkled with names of her wonderful acquaintances, such as Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly.

One children’s story she included in her new book was her hilarious reaction to the birth of her sister, the late Jackie Collins.

Joan recalled on television that “when I was four years old, I was woken up for no reason and taken to an aunt – I didn’t know – and when I came back three days later, my mother was lying there.” hold this being.

The little girl looked at the baby and asked, “What is that?” and her mother Elsa replied, “This is your new sister Jacqueline Jill,” to which Joan snapped, “What a stupid name!” Can I go play with my cat?’

Joan then asked, “Where did she come from?” – and her parents had rightly ‘succumbed’. They didn’t tell me where she came from.’

Jackie, who enjoyed a roaring career as a writer of ‘bonkbuster’ novels, died in 2015 at the age of 77 after a secret six-year battle with breast cancer.

In contrast to the sparkling froth of Joan’s latest book, her previous releases include Past Imperfect, a searing 1978 memoir that pulls back the curtain on the dark side of her showbiz career and her marriages.

The book had no shortage of sinister moments, such as when 20th Century Fox chief Darryl Zanuck tried to force himself on her in a hotel hallway.

“I was wondering how I could get out of this without having to knee him in the groin,” she wrote. “Luckily, Dorothy Dandridge and a makeup man walked down the hall and I fled, promising to stay away from Mr. Z in the future.”

At the age of 18, Joan married her first husband Maxwell Reed, an actor who drugged and raped her on the first date and then left her to go home alone.

“In the 1950s, a girl could walk through the streets of London after dark without worrying about muggers or rapists,” she wrote in Past Imperfect. ‘Since I had already been raped once that night, the chances were slim.’

Their brief, turbulent marriage eventually ended after he tried to sell her to an Arab sheikh for £10,000 for one night, prompting her to leave him.

Her subsequent husbands included Anthony Newley, with whom she welcomed her daughter Tara and her son Sacha.

She also married former Beatles manager Ron Kass, who was the father of her daughter Katie, and ex-pop act Peter Holm, whom she now dismissively calls “the Swede.”

Joan noted in recent years that of all her marriages, “The only one I didn’t understand was the Swede. That was such a total mistake.”

Her marriage to Peter Holm also resulted in a temporary rift with Jackie, who despised him, but who mended fences with Joan after their split.

When Joan threw a party to celebrate the divorce, Jackie handed out t-shirts with the texts ‘Holm is not where the heart is’ and ‘Holm-less’.

Now, however, Joan has found the right man, she joked Jonathan Ross in 2020 that her marriage to Percy had lasted as long as the previous four marriages combined.