TINA BROWN (1953 - ), MAGAZINE EDITOR
Former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and editor-in-chief of the New Yorker, Brown was expelled from three boarding schools by the time she was 16. 'I got other girls to run away,' she recalled, 'and I organised protests because we weren't allowed to change our underpants.' At one school the headmistress found her diary, 'and opened it where I had described her bosom as an unidentified flying object'.
JACKIE COLLINS (1941 - ), NOVELIST
At 16, Collins was expelled from Francis Holland School in England for (among other crimes) truancy, smoking behind a tree during lacrosse, selling readings from her diary of naughty limericks and waving at the neighbourhood flasher. Says Collins, “I was a bad girl." She later sent her own daughters to the same school.
SALVADOR DALI (1904-89), ARTIST
In L926 Spanish ultra-modernist painter Salvador Dali was expelled from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid when he refused to allow his professors to critique his paintings.
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