Sellers daughter faces US deportation
The daughter of Britt Ekland and the late actor Peter Sellers faces being deported back to Britain after she was arrested in Hollywood for immigration offences, US authorities said.
Victoria Sellers was being held in an Orange County detention centre after agents arrested her at an apartment, immigration official Jim Hayes said.
“She was very calm,” he said. “She gave no resistance.”
He added that she would be sent back to Britain as soon as possible, but declined to say when.
Sellers, 41, was a US permanent resident until April 2002, when an immigration judge ordered that she was removed from the country for a past criminal conviction, and had been living in the country illegally ever since with a warrant for her arrest, Hayes said.
In May 1994 she was charged with receiving stolen jewellery. Prosecutors contended she had rings and bracelets taken during an April robbery spree allegedly committed by a then-boyfriend and another man.
After pleading guilty in the case, she was sentenced to 13 days in jail and placed on three years’ probation.
In January 1995, she was arrested in West Hollywood after she appeared to be under the influence of drugs and several grams of methamphetamines were found in her purse.
It was her second drug arrest in two years and she was sentenced to 120 days in jail.
The actress has appeared in Sex Tips with Heidi Fleiss and Victoria Sellers and other projects.
Peter Sellers, who died in 1980, starred in such films as Being There and The Pink Panther series.
Britt Ekland appeared in the James Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun and 1971’s Get Carter.
