A bookkeeper has been sentenced in a San Francisco court to two years and nine months in prison for stealing nearly $800,000 from novelist Danielle Steel. While the majority of U.S. business ...

Vickie also co-wrote The Lives of Danielle Steel (1995) and wrote Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography (1999). Vickie Bane is a former staff writer and freelancer at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2014.