VALLEYWIDE : Sellers Is Freed After 13 Days Behind Bars

After spending 13 days in jail, Victoria Sellers was freed on her own recognizance Wednesday, her lawyer said.

Sellers, the 29-year-old daughter of British comic actor Peter Sellers and actress Britt Eckland, had been held at Sybil Brand Institute on $100,000 bail after failing to appear for booking on a receiving stolen property charge. But, after postponing her preliminary hearing on the matter, Van Nuys Municipal Court Judge Michael S. Luros agreed to let Sellers go free.

“The judge was much nicer today. He’d mellowed out,” defense attorney Barry Hammond said.

Luros, saying Sellers was about as interested in following the court’s orders “as a cat,” jailed her without bail June 16 after she didn’t show up at the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Valley station for fingerprinting. Last week, he called her “flighty” and lowered her bail to $100,000--an amount Hammond said Sellers still couldn’t afford.

A British newspaper had offered to bail out Sellers, Hammond said.

She was charged with receiving stolen property earlier this month when detectives investigating a string of armed robberies obtained a search warrant and found allegedly stolen jewelry in her dresser drawers and under her bed, police said. She shared the house in Northridge with two of the robbery suspects and a talent agent, who also was charged with receiving stolen property.