Someone gave my late great-aunt a box set of Jackie Collins movie adaptations on VHS back in the day. Every time I would come to visit her, we’d watch one of them, drink strawberry wine coolers, and critique the outfits.

Let’s all raise a glass of champagne, sparkling wine or what have you to a life well lived. RIP Jackie.

Growing up as a little gay dude in the middle of nowhere, I devoured her books. Opened me up to worlds I didn’t know existed, then longed to be part of. Thanks for all glamour Jackie!

My grandma was really bummed when she found it, she LOVED her books. Every time we traveled she would have a Jackie Collins book.

Nah, Helen, you are fine. Trust me I’ve done it (told ppl to fuck off) and it doesn’t always end well. lol

Wow a surprising amount of you have used this as an opportunity to illustrate how ignorant you are. So just because some scumbag creep killed someone that’s enough to paint all men with that brush? You know sexism works both ways.

I just remembered why I left Jezebel the first time. It was because of gross, classist bigoted articles like this one. The dude visited his family and you decided that was an opportunity to make fun of people from Kentucky. Ew.

As a native Kentuckian (who once even spent a year working with George Clooney’s sister), let me politely invite you to go fuck yourself.

This honestly isn’t new (and I know Jez isn’t the first outlet to run with it like it is new this week). The story is on one of the many extras included with Seinfeld DVDs and Alexander has talked about it elsewhere as well.

This is some of the stupidest PC crap i’ve seen in awhile. Phrasing is not going to make the reality different. Committed suicide, killed them self, took their life, made them self dead, intentionally ended living, quit living, gave up living, opted out of life. She is fucking deceased.

I hate political correctness.

Your insight is inspiring, please enjoy your white privilege, and your very nice, ridiculously expensive LA community. I hope you get the police to grovel before you before long. Maybe next time when you demand that they leave you and your frat buddies alone because you make more than they do, they’ll meekly comply.…

Actually most large urban police departments don’t allow their officers to live in the districts in which they work. And are you really castigating people for living outside of high crime areas?

I don’t buy it. Like you, I’m white. I live just outside Baltimore in a diverse lower middle class community. The county police are fine. But 15 miles away, the murder rate is nuts. The police are nuts. And don’t call me dude.

Correction: they were and still are black.

Don’t forget, that three of the officers charged were black.

Brown was raging on having just committed a class A felony (robbery) and not wanting to go to prison for ten years.

This abuse mostly happens in communities of chaos. If the murder rate in your community is 10 times higher than the national average, you will see all kinds of crazy.

Do you cooperate and help the police? They can't do there job without your help. You can be part of the solution.