Sellers’ Daughter Admits Cocaine Guilt, Will Testify

Victoria Sellers, daughter of Britt Ekland and the late Peter Sellers, pleaded guilty to drug charges and will testify against another defendant in a cocaine-dealing case, federal prosecutors said today.

Sellers entered a guilty plea to involvement in a Hollywood-based cocaine operation that allegedly tried to establish a distribution network in New Jersey, Assistant U.S. Atty. Judy Russell said.

Sellers, 23, was charged in March with membership in the cocaine ring, which prosecutors alleged used burglary, threats and violence to collect debts and obtain some of the drugs it sold.

Russell said Sellers will probably testify Friday in the trial of Curtis Hunt, another of the six defendants in the cocaine conspiracy case. Sellers’ live-in manager and the alleged ringleader of the cocaine ring, Reed Wallace, will testify Tuesday, she said.

According to the plea bargain, the government will not oppose her request that she not be deported for her offense. Sellers, a British subject, had pleaded innocent to a conspiracy charge in March and is free on $100,000 bail.

That charge will be dropped if she testifies truthfully about criminal actions by herself and five other defendants.

The original charge would have carried a sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Sellers entered her guilty plea in a locked courtroom here April 10. She faces a maximum of three years on the charge.

In court papers, she said that she rented the Hollywood house where the operation was based and that she knew illegal activities were being committed.

Sellers--who appeared at age 14 with her mother in the film “The Great Wallendas”--was featured in nude and semi-nude pictures in the April issue of Playboy magazine, which appeared on newsstands about the same time she was charged.