Lynne Frederick

Although Sellers and Frederick had come to a financial agreement in their divorce and the actor was in the process of excluding her from his will a week before he died of a heart attack (on 24 July 1980), she inherited almost his entire estate worth an estimated £4.5 million on a technicality, as the divorce decree had not been finalised.

She reportedly suffered from severe depression because of Sellers' death and attempted suicide numerous times. In her later years she reportedly became obsessed by his memory and kept a shrine to him at the Swiss chalet in Gstaad which she inherited from him. She won nearly $1.5 million in a lawsuit against the makers of the Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), made after Sellers' death, claiming the film tarnished her late husband's memory.

She briefly married David Frost (on 25 January 1981); they divorced 17 months later. Read Less

Victoria, Peter Sellers' daughter by his previous marriage to Britt Ekland, last saw Lynne three weeks before her death and subsequently stated, "I was so shocked. Lynne was sitting in her kitchen, dressed in a filthy kaftan. She could hardly move. She was swigging vodka directly from a jug with a handle on the side". There was no evidence of foul play, and although suicide was suspected by some, there was no actual evidence for this and a post-mortem failed to determine the cause of death. She was survived by her mother, Iris, and her daughter, Cassie.

Her remains were cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London and her ashes were mingled and then interred with those of Peter Sellers. Her estate passed into a trust fund, the Lynne Unger Children's Trust, which was administered by accountants in Santa Monica, California; her daughter Cassie Unger was the beneficiary. Read Less