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Phil Spector Convicted of Murder-Finally

By David Lohr

Throughout much of Phil Spector's six-month-long second trial, the prosecution portrayed the 69-year-old music industry genius as a sadistic misogynist and produced extensive testimony from women who said that the famed music producer had terrorized them at gunpoint during bouts of heavy drinking.  Some of the women's testimony described events that occurred as far back as 30 years ago.  The 1989 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is well- known for his volatile temper, and prosecutors contended that Spector, at one point during the early morning hours of February 3, 2003, had pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber revolver and blew off the lower portion of actress/model Lana Clarkson's mouth in the foyer of his 33 room castle replica home located in Alhambra, California, near Los Angeles...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).