Victoria Sellers

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Victoria Sellers
Born (1965-01-20) 20 January 1965 (age 59)
London, England
Occupation(s)Model, actress
Parents
Relatives Michael Sellers (half-brother)

Victoria Sellers (born 20 January 1965) is a British-American model, actress, and reality television personality.

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Early life

Born in London, Sellers attended Lycée Français de Los Angeles in West Los Angeles, University High School in West Los Angeles and Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences [1] in the class of 1981. [2] She became friends with the "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss in their teens. [3]

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

A letter 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 (£108,300 as of 2024). [4]

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. [5]

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. [6]

In 2005, Sellers began designing jewellery. [7]

In 2009, she was the subject of episode 4 of the British reality series Rehab. [8] In November 2013, she began filming the reality show The Eklands for Swedish television with her mother and half-brothers, Nick and T.J. [9]

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References

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  2. ↑ Ebner, Mark. "Hollyweird High". Screenmancer. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  3. ↑ Hirschberg, Lynn (1 February 1994). "Heidi Does Hollywood". Vanity Fair . Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "Peter Sellers 'tried to change will' before he died". BBC. 16 July 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  5. ↑ Sikov, Ed (2002). Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (First ed.). New york: Hyperion. pp.  384–85. ISBN   0-7868-6664-0.
  6. ↑ Adams, Guy (5 October 2006). "Celebrity children: The troubled world of Victoria Sellers" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  7. ↑ Sellers, Victoria (2005). "About Me". VStyle10. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
  8. ↑ "Rehab Series 1 – Ep 4 Victoria Sellers". Channels. BSkyB. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  9. ↑ "Nu får Britt Ekland ett eget tv-program". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). 29 November 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
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