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Post by patsy on Feb 8, 2009 9:44:36 GMT
In her scruffy jeans, flip-flops and baggy T-shirt, she could easily pass for a penniless student. But while her classmates at UCLA in California return after lectures to modest rented homes, Cassie Unger takes a short stroll from the college campus to her own £1.2 million luxury apartment, complete with 24-hour concierge. Cassie’s wealthy lifestyle was paid for by the legendary British actor and comedian Peter Sellers. At 25, she is too young ever to have met her benefactor – Cassie was born four years after Sellers died of a heart attack in 1980. Nor is she related to the former Goon, who famously starred as the hapless Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the 1963 film The Pink Panther. But in the week that The Pink Panther 2 starring Steve Martin is released, The Mail on Sunday can reveal this pretty and unassuming American student is sole heir to Sellers’ multi-million-pound fortune, the star’s own three children having received just £800 each. Cassie seldom talks of the strange twist of fate that made her a millionairess or of her late mother, the minor British actress Lynne Frederick, who – crucially – was married to Sellers at the time of his sudden death nearly 30 years ago. The couple had been married for only three years and Sellers and Frederick were bitterly estranged when he suffered the first in a series of major heart attacks that eventually killed him. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1138807/The-girl-got-Peter-Sellers-5m--met-him.htmlI think she should share some of this with Sellers children. |
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Post by trubble on Feb 8, 2009 10:05:46 GMT
Would you, though?
I feel sorry for Julian Lennon who has things of his dad's because he bought them at auction! Otherwise Sean and Yoko have everything.
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Post by trubble on Feb 8, 2009 10:14:30 GMT
The mother of this woman, Peter's last and estranged wife, Lynne, married at least two other men after Sellers and died 14 years after him... ...mingled ashes? Weird! Poor kids. Hold on, or was Michael nuts when he said that because the article also says.. I swear, the Daily Mail is a pain (no offence, patsy, hi btw  ). Now I will have to google around to find out.  |
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Post by patsy on Feb 8, 2009 10:23:49 GMT
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Post by trubble on Feb 8, 2009 10:26:31 GMT
Another thing, why did Britt Eckland not have lots of money to leave Victoria Sellers? Wasn't she in lots of films??
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Post by trubble on Feb 8, 2009 10:27:21 GMT
Oh, I see, she's not dead. Oops.
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Post by Patrick on Feb 8, 2009 12:10:29 GMT
Oh, I see, she's not dead. Oops. ;D Apart from Harry Secombe - verily the Cliff Richard of the Goons - both Sellers and Spike had complicated lives and even more complicated deaths! Milligan's last wife caused all sorts of complications regarding what the children could have access to - and then there was the matter of one of Spike's (out of marriage) children - who he supported financially as well, and not many of them knew about for a long time. That and the furore over his headstone which meant his grave went unmarked for a good while. When bequests get as far removed from their original receiver as they have done with Sellers there it's very sad. There's no countering what people will do though. It was only because of my Grandmother dying that my Step Grandfather had any money at all at the end - and then he gave a third to his sister - who over the years had hardly had anything to do with them! No accounting for taste. |
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Post by patsy on Feb 8, 2009 12:55:34 GMT
Another thing, why did Britt Eckland not have lots of money to leave Victoria Sellers? Wasn't she in lots of films?? Probably because she's still alive  |
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Post by chrislord on Feb 13, 2009 9:02:49 GMT
Not a very nice man Sellers from what I've read. Had very little time for his children. Spike Milligan once tried to throttle him after Sellers boasted about his Hollywood lifestyle and his friendship with Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. Spike requested a goons reunion and Sellers apparently said 'You'll have to consult my secretary...my diary is full...'
Hugely talented man, but as Pat said...complicated.
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