American music producer and songwriter, Harvey Philip Spector, or more famously known as Phil Spector has been charged with second degree murder, for which he could face a 15 year life sentence. The record producer has been accused of murdering Lana Clarkson, a nightclub hostess.
The murder took place on February 3, 2003, and Spector was indicted with charges on November 20, 2003. The trial for the murder case has been in progress since April 27, 2007. The trial saw its fourth day yesterday, i.e. May 8 2007. The body of the deceased was found at Spector’s faux-castle mansion in Alhambra, California. The mansion is more famously known as Pyrenees Castle.
Yesterday, Dianne Ogden, a music executive, was summoned to the court to testify at the trial. According to Ogden, Spector had attempted to rape her in 1989 at gunpoint.
According to the Associated Press, Ogden said Spector ordered her upstairs to his bedroom, threatening her with a pistol and a rifle, and wanted to rape her.
When Deputy District Attorney Pat Dixon asked, if Spector had attempted to be intimate, Ogden-Halder said, "He didn't have to do that, he could have been romantic but he did it by gunpoint. He wanted to rape me. I don't know why he was doing this.
"He had me take off some of my clothes, and he tried to have intercourse with me. It was just 'icky' because it wasn't him.
"I didn't want to make to love with him like that, with him telling me he was going to blow my brains out. That was not romantic to me."
She said no sex sex took place and she awoke next morning to hear Spector singing in the shower as if nothing had happened. "It was weird," she said. "I started wondering 'Did I just dream that?'"
Ogden also said that Spector used to send her birthday cards and flowers. In another incident, Spector threatened to kill her with an Uzi submachine gun, after which she broke contact with Spector completely. Both incidents were never officially reported.
Stating that Clarkson’s death was an accidental suicide, Spector’s lawyers have been trying to suppress apparent statements made by Spector on the scene of murder. It has been reported that when the police arrived at the crime scene, Spector allegedly said, "I think I just killed someone."
Spector has been known to suffer from bipolar disorder, and considers himself relatively insane.
Spector has changed three attorneys till date. Initially, Robert Shapiro represented Spector, who was replaced by Leslie Abramson, and then Marcia Morrissey, who was further replaced by Bruce Cutler. Cutler has known to represent quite a few celebrities including the mafia don, John Gotti.
The second day of the highly followed trial saw another one of Spector’s ex-girlfriends testifying against him. To corroborate the claim that Spector has had a history of assaulting women in drunken state, prosecutors summoned Dorothy Melvin to the court.
Melvin testified that in an incident in 1993, an inebriated Spector brandished a revolver and a shotgun, struck her twice in the head, and tried to make her strip at gunpoint.
However, Melvin never pressed charges and maintained contact with Spector for a decade afterwards.
The trial is expected to continue for around 3-4 months.
As the trial comes to a close for this bully and it is revealed more and more how he terrorized and abused his children unmercifully (at least one of whom is now homeless and HIV positive and Phil never gave him a dime or a single word of support) let alone the countless scores of women he abused and threatened to murder; and it becomes apparent his case will be a lost cause, most of his slimy, opportunistic friends will start to back away from him (other than those in a position to divvy up his estate which he'll lose as he dies in jail). But Phil, don't lose heart, you'll soon have lots of new violent and psychotic friends inside prison, so many in fact that you'll have all kinds of bubbas up the ass.