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Her brother, publisher Guy Broomfield, was shot dead in his San Francisco home at age 60 in September 1999 by his girlfriend's son, 25-year-old Harry Israel Dalsey--heir to the DHL courier fortune. Dalsey admitted in court that during an argument he fired a .38-cal. revolver, striking Guy twice in the chest at point-blank range and killing him, but he got only 36 months in prison after plea-bargaining the charge from second-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter. Guy was the boyfriend of Dalsey's widowed mother Annie, and had lived in her California mansion for six years.

Former Miss London.

She was born Shirley Ann Broomfield in Forest Gate, London in 1936 but as a young child she was taken to Liverpool to avoid the London blitz.

Abandoned as a child during the blitz, she and her brother Guy were brought up in an orphanage near Bolton,.

Was named as the other woman in Diana Dors' divorce from Dennis Hamilton.

She has one daughter: Nicola Jane Crichton-Stuart, born in 1969.

At 20 she was named as Britain's answer to Monroe and Bardot, but by her late 20s her career had waned.

She became a partner in an antiques shop in London's Portobello Road.

Left school at 16 to join The Royal Ballet.

Her father left when she was about 3.

She won a beauty contest and became a well-known model, which she eventually gave up and joined a repertory company on the Isle of Wight.

Her husband was a flying instructor.

Had long-term affairs with Bill Kenwright and Kenneth Cranham.

She went to London at 17 hoping to be a model.