Still, before his violent temperament would send sparks flying, theirs was a relationship that sparked musical ingenuity. Phil and Ronnie Spector in Westwood, California, in Phil Spector brought fame to the Ronettes after he signed them in Michael Ochs Archives Decades after their divorce, Phil still felt as though he had some sort of control over Ronnie.
Getty Images When Phil eventually passed away at the age of 81, Ronnie spoke out about his death. Share This Article. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. In February , actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.
Spector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson "kissed the gun" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances. Following an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles. He began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends.
They had a hit single in with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: "To know him is to love him. The record went to number one on the Billboard Hot , but the group split the following year. Spector founded his own record label, Philles, in Diamond said Baden called the object a tooth fragment. Michael Baden denied that he had ever picked up a small white fragment in Spector's home and said he would not have been able to identify it as a tooth if he had.
Onetime defense investigator Bill Pavelic testified at a May 3, hearing that he never saw anyone on Spector's legal team recover evidence during a search of Spector's home. Attorney Sara Caplan, who worked on Spector's defense in , said at the hearing that she saw Lee use tweezers to place a small white piece of evidence the size of a fingernail in a clear vial. She said she did not know what became of the item.
Defense investigator Stanley White said at the hearing that Lee found something that resembled a fingernail in the foyer. He said Lee initially believed it was a piece of human tissue. Dianne Ogden, who dated Spector in the s, demonstrated to jurors how Spector pressed a handgun to her face during a incident. Ogden said Spector tried to rape her at gunpoint. Lead defense attorney Bruce Cutler became loud and animated during his May 7, cross-examination of Ogden.
Judge Larry Fidler reprimanded Cutler, sternly warning him twice to "lower his tone. De Souza, he noted, had been through eight variations of the phrase "I think I killed someone" in recounting events to investigators. Surely that suggested sufficient doubt to acquit, Weinberg argued. But ultimately, Spector came up against a barrage of evidence. Clarkson had given no indication that she was suicidal, the defence's proffered explanation. Why would someone who was just about to shoot themselves go out and buy multiple pairs of shoes?
The trial heard expert testimony that people rarely kill themselves on the spur of the moment, and almost never at the home of a stranger. More damning for the defence was the judge's decision in both trials to allow evidence of prior acts by Spector involving women and guns. A parade of women at both trials described how Spector had turned from charm to menace, often fuelled by alcohol and medication.
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