Editing Harold Robbins (section)

==Personal life==
Robbins was married three times, first to his high school sweetheart, Lillian Machnivitz.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Pleasure Principle |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,2208540,00.html |newspaper=The Guardian |last=Morrison |first=Blake |date=November 10, 2007 |access-date=2015-01-22}}</ref> In 1965 he wed Grace Palermo, who went on to pen an account of her life with Robbins in 2013.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/14/biography.features ''The Guardian'']</ref> Divorced in the early 1990s,<ref>{{cite book| title=Cinderella and the Carpetbagger: My Life as the Wife of the "World's Best-Selling Author," Harold Robbins| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0oHDNAEACAAJ&q=Cinderella+and+the+Carpetbagger:+:+My+Life+as+the+Wife+of+the+%22World%27s+Best-Selling+Author,%22+Harold+Robbins| year=2013| last=Robbins| first=Grace| publisher=Bettie Youngs Books| isbn=978-0988284838}}</ref> Robbins married Jann Stapp in 1992; they remained together until his death.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

He spent a great deal of time on the [[French Riviera]] and at [[Monte Carlo]] until his death from respiratory heart failure, at the age of 81 in [[Palm Springs, California]].<ref name="nytimes.com">[https://web.archive.org/web/20150709064251/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/15/books/harold-robbins-81-dies-wrote-best-sellers-brimming-with-sex-money-and-power.html Harold Robbins, 81, Dies; Wrote Best Sellers Brimming With Sex, Money and Power] ''[[The New York Times]]'' via [[Internet Archive]]. Retrieved October 3, 2023.</ref> His cremated remains are interred at [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)|Forest Lawn Cemetery]] in Cathedral City.<ref>{{cite book| title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons| edition=3d| page=634| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&q=harold+robbins+forest+lawn&pg=PA634| last=Wilson| first=Scott| date=August 22, 2016| publisher=McFarland| isbn=978-0786479924| access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> Robbins has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6743 Hollywood Boulevard.