R.I.P. to Jackie Collins. No One would have ever heard of her had she not been white or the Sister of Joan Collins. I greatly respect the fact that 500 million books of hers were sold

Best-selling novelist Jackie Collins died Saturday after losing a six-year battle with breast cancer.

The 77-year-old author, known for her racy Hollywood-insider novels, kept her terminal illness quiet after she was first diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. The British-born writer, and sister of actress Joan Collins, died in Los Angeles, her spokeswoman said.

“It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who died of breast cancer today,” the Collins family wrote in a statement to Facebook.

The prolific writer’s career spanned four decades, and she sold more than 500 million books in 40 countries.

“She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over 4 decades,” the Collins’ family statement said. “She was a true inspiration, a trail blazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words.”

The writer’s death was first reported by People.

Collins’ most recent novels were “Poor Little Bitch Girl” in 2009 and “Confessions of a Wild Child,” released in 2013.

“She was my best friend,” her sister, 82-year-old actress Joan Collins told People. “I admire how she handled this. She was a wonderful, brave and a beautiful person and I love her.”

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Some of the famous books by author Jackie Collins.

While her sister was a fixture of the Hollywood glitterati, Jackie Collins was content to document the wild lives of the rich and famous through story.

She began publishing novels in the late 1960s. Her first novel, “The World is Full of Married Men,” was published in 1968 and became a bestseller.

She put out several more novels in the 1970s, but it was 1983’s “Hollywood Wives” that made Collins a household name and a star in her own right.

The salacious book sold more than 15 million copies, led to sequels and became a hit TV miniseries starring Anthony Hopkins and Candice Bergen.

The sudden news of Collins’ death shocked the Hollywood elite that the author so often used as inspiration.

“She was one of the loveliest people imaginable. A true star who treated everyone equally. RIP, dear friend,” actor James Woods tweeted.

During her final interview, Collins said she had no regrets about keeping her cancer under wraps, according to People.

“Looking back, I’m not sorry about anything I did,” she told the magazine last week. “I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I’ve written five books since the diagnosis, I’ve lived my life, I’ve traveled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it.”