Victoria Sellers

Victoria Sellers (born 20 January 1965)[1] is a British model, actress, comedian and jewellery designer.

Early life

Born in London, Sellers attended Lycée Français de Los Angeles in West Los Angeles and Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences[2] in the class of 1981.[3] She became friends with the "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss in their teens.[4]

She is the only child from the marriage of actor Peter Sellers and actress Britt Ekland.[5]

A letter due to be auctioned in 2010, one of the last documents signed by her father before his death, indicates that he was trying to increase the amount of money to be inherited by her from £800 to £20,000.[6]

Career

Sellers posed for Playboy in April 1986. In the same year she was indicted for her role in a cocaine-trafficking gang, and was placed on probation for three years.[7]

She performed as a stand-up comic in the early 1990s. With Heidi Fleiss, she hosted and produced an instructional DVD titled Sex Tips with Heidi Fleiss and Victoria Sellers in 2001.[8]

In 2005, Sellers began designing jewellery.[9] She is currently a hostess and bartender at Le Petit Bistro in West Hollywood, California. She is currently filming the reality show The Eklands for Swedish television with her mother and half-brothers, Nick and T.J.

In 2009, she was the subject of episode 4 of the British reality series Rehab.[5][10] In 2013-14 she appeared on Swedish television along with her mother in Svenska Hollywoodfruar.

References

  1. Victoria Sellers on IMDb
  2. "The List – Notable L.A. Natives". The Daily Truffle. 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  3. Ebner, Mark. "Hollyweird High". Screenmancer. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  4. Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
  5. 1 2 Das, Lina (21 February 2009). "'Jail saved my life': The wayward daughter of Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland talks drugs, rehab and Heidi Fleiss". Daily Mail. Associated Newspapers. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  6. "Peter Sellers 'tried to change will' before he died". BBC. 16 July 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  7. Sikov, Ed (2002). Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (First ed.). New york: Hyperion. pp. 384–85. ISBN 0-7868-6664-0.
  8. Adams, Guy (5 October 2006). "Celebrity children: The troubled world of Victoria Sellers". Media. Independent Print. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  9. Sellers, Victoria (2005). "About Me". VStyle10. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  10. "Rehab Series 1 – Ep 4 Victoria Sellers". Channels. BSkyB. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
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