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Lynne’s mother, Iris, found the body. It was taken to the Los Angeles County Morgue, where it became Case Number 94-3840 and was tagged with a note reading, “history of alcohol and seizures.”

Then Iris got the money.

Iris Frederick lives in a lovely home in Cheviot Hills, California. She controls all access to Peter Sellers’s papers and personal effects, she has trademarked his name, and she is currently developing his property in the Seychelles as a high-end resort.

When Iris dies, Peter Sellers’s fortune will all go to a girl named Cassie, the daughter Lynne had with the cardiologist.

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Michael Sellers went on to write a book about his father, P.S. I Love You. He also coedited Sellers on Sellers, a collection of reminiscences, and Hard Act to Follow, in which he and some other sons and daughters of celebrities chronicle their wholly justified difficulties in being famous people’s offspring.

Victoria Sellers turned up in the news in the spring of 1986 when she appeared nude in Playboy. The glossy magazine spread reveals her recreating famous moments from classic films: a bare-breasted “Ingrid Bergman” in white silk panties and high heels at the end of Casablanca (1942); “Elizabeth Taylor” in Cleopatra (1960), clad in a snake; and “Sophia Loren” in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963) with her bush exposed.

Victoria was also indicted that spring for her role in a cocaine-trafficking gang. The ringleader was her agent. Facing twenty years in jail, she agreed to testify for the government and was placed on three years’ probation. In the early 1990s, she and her friend and housemate, Heidi Fleiss, found employment as high-priced prostitutes; the so-called “Hollywood madam” scandal broke in 1993.

The following year, Victoria was questioned about a series of armed robberies committed by her boyfriend.

Sex Tips with Heidi Fleiss and Victoria Sellers was released on DVD in time for Christmas 2001.

Sarah Sellers lives quietly in North London.

Anne Levy lives near her daughter.

After “Bino” Cicogna committed suicide, Britt Ekland continued to live a life of glamour and glory with such short- and long-term mates as Warren Beatty, Rod Stewart, George Hamilton, and the record producer Lou Adler, with whom she had a son.

Liza Minnelli went on to achieve some great performances (New York, New York, 1977, and Arthur, 1981) and equally well-publicized addictions.

Titi Wachtmeister moved on from Peter Sellers to King Carl Gustaf of Sweden. She returned to the public eye in the late 1980s when she launched a line of expensive T-shirts called “T-T’s T’s.” She died of a brain hemorrhage in 1993.

Sinead Cusack married Jeremy Irons in 1978; the couple has two sons.

In 2000, Sophia Loren wrote a loving tribute to Peter Sellers for a British awards ceremony. She was, she wrote, “amused and permanently entertained by his wit and his vivid intelligence. After him nobody else has reached his level and his originality. I will always remember him with love and endless regrets.”

Miranda Quarry is now Lady Nuttall.

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Blake Edwards attempted to assume control of The Romance of the Pink Panther after Peter’s death and offered the role of Inspector Clouseau to Dudley Moore, who turned it down.

Edwards then compiled a selection of outtakes from previous Pink Panther films, released it as The Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), and was promptly sued by Lynne Frederick, who claimed that the film insulted the memory of her dear husband. A British court ordered the various producers of The Trail of the Pink Panther—Edwards, United Artists, and Lakeline Productions, which was owned by Julie Andrews—to pay $1 million in damages, 3.15 percent of the film’s profits, and 1.36 percent of its gross receipts.

Edwards’s more successful films after Peter’s death include S.O.B. (1981) and Victor/Victoria (1982), which he and Julie Andrews later turned into a smash Broadway musical. Edwards has recently rewritten A Shot in the Dark as