JOAN COLLINS SON 'SACHA NEWLY' IS ACCUSING HIS LATE FATHER 'ANTHONY NEWLY' OF BEING A 'PAEDOPHILE IN A RECENT INTERVIEW.{PHOTOS}.

   According to sources,52 years old Sacha Newley the son of Dame Joan Collins and Anthony Newly has said his late was a paedophile.He claimed that his father's dark sexual proclivity led to the bitter breakdown of his parents marriage.It comes as the portraitist prepares to release a memoir focusing on his childhood,entitled Unaccompanied Minor,this week.In an interview with The Sunday Times,Sacha bluntly addressed long-circulated rumours about his father's sexual interests.'He was a paedophile.My father was drawn t youthfulness,' He said.''He thought innocence was an aphrodisiac.That was his secual proclivity and it's a very dangerous,destructive thing''.Sacha added that growing up as a child in Hollywood saw him witness sex regularly.He said:''My father put sex front and centre.He exposed me to all of that-it was absolutely inappropriate''.The artist explained that his father's X-rated 1969 film,entitled Can Heironnymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?,is a 'confession of paedophilia'.The film,written and directed by Anthony and starring himself as Merkin and Collins as his on-screen wife Polyester Poontang.Sacha and hiss sister Tara,now 54,played the couple's children.More photos below.