- 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.
- 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.
- Former Miss London.
- 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.
- She became a partner in an antiques shop in London's Portobello Road.
- At 20 she was named as Britain's answer to Monroe and Bardot, but by her late 20s her career had waned.
- Left school at 16 to join The Royal Ballet.
- Her father left when she was about 3.
- 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.
- 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.
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