""Jackie Collins was just 15 when she had a passionate fling with Marlon Brando. There were no anguished accusations of older, more famous men sexually abusing under-age girls from the queen of the bonkbusters. She enjoyed every minute of it. ‘Marlon was in his early 30s and I was about to be 16,’ she later recalled of their short affair in Los Angeles, where she was living with her actress sister, Joan. The attentions of one of Hollywood’s leading men weren’t completely surprising. By the age of 15, Collins had the body of an 18-year-old, with a tiny waist and pneumatic breasts. ‘He sent someone over to me at a party to say, “Marlon thinks you’re great looking and have a great body and would like to meet you”.’ Whe she met him, she said, ‘he stared straight at my 39in chest — men often talk to my chest — and said, “That’s a great-looking body you have, little girl”. It was a mutual attraction. ‘We had a very brief but fabulous affair — he was at the height of his fame and glamour, the most beautiful man I’d ever seen. ‘We went together on and off for a short while, but he was a real womaniser and had a girlfriend and I had another boyfriend, so it was just a bit of fun.’ Collins, who once admitted to only falling in love with five men, said Brando wasn’t one of them. He had merely been a ‘schoolgirl crush’ she said insouciantly.