Dame Joan’s son vows no sex-mad dad in next book

Few memoirs of a showbusiness childhood have been as candid as those of Alexander Newley, son of Dame Joan Collins and the second of her five husbands, composer and actor Anthony Newley.

Alexander recalled that his father ‘lived to screw’ — and found an ‘endless cattle call’ of naked young women willing to gratify his desires on the sun- kissed beaches of California.

Now, I can disclose, Newley, 53, a highly accomplished artist, is penning a second volume. But although the first, Unaccompanied Minor, covered just the first 14 years of his life, the follow-up will leap ahead to his mid-30s living in Los Angeles as a carefree bachelor.

During this period he completed portraits of ‘Hollywood royalty’, such as directors Oliver Stone and

Billy Wilder, the late superman star Christopher Reeve and novelist and playwright Gore vidal.

Painting vidal, who claimed to have slept with 1,000 people — of both sexes — by the time he was 25, was, Newley tells me, a ‘crown jewels experience, a lifechanging experience’.

‘I spent ten days with Gore at his house in Ravello, in Italy.’

Back in Hollywood where in his childhood family neighbours had included steve McQueen and James Caan, Newley painted another legendary writer, vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne.

Fans will hope for further vignettes about his father, but Newley, who has one daughter by exwife angela, is ‘not convinced’ additional disclosure is necessary.

In his first volume, he concluded that an autobiographical film his father made should really have been entitled: ‘How am I ever going to stop lusting after underage girls and become a proper family man?’