[4] Michael was Peter Sellers' son from his first marriage to actress Anne Howe.

[5] During the school year, Michael stayed with his mother and stepfather, while he spent the school holidays with his father who in turn was insecure about his relationship with his son and became vindictive; despite this, Michael remained close to his father up until his death, and they spent some enjoyable times together.

Michael also claimed that the £800 he received was a calculated act to prevent him from contesting the will, since under English law only complete disinheritance provided the legal grounds for a challenge of the will.

[4] In 2000, Sellers produced his last book, Sellers On Sellers, where he wrote: He had been there: starred in the movies, married the young women, driven the fast cars, taken the drugs, drunk the wine, made all the cash, spent the cash and let down all those people who had ever really cared for him.In the 2020 BBC Two documentary A State of Comic Ecstasy, Michael's son Will said that the strained relationship between Peter and Michael, and particularly the situation with the will (greatly favouring Peter Sellers' fourth wife, Lynne Frederick, which Will claimed was "the price he [Peter] paid" to get her back after a separation), "ate [Michael] up.

"[7] On 24 July 2006, Michael Sellers died of a heart attack, like his father.