Thank the lord that the Phil Spector murder trial is back on this week, because we don't mind admitting that we get a little antsy when we go a few days without hearing allegations about old men in bad lesbian wigs trying to rape women at gunpoint.
The Phil Spector murder trial resumed yesterday pretty much where it left off last week, with another woman giving a statement about how Phil Spector attempted to rape her once at gunpoint before leaving a voicemail message to her apparently threatening to kill her if she ever told anyone. Sounds as if someone's been reading The Hecklerspray Guide To Seducin' The Laydeez.
The Phil Spector murder trial has a lot of playing catch-up to do, after last week's delays caused by defence lawyer Bruce Cutler a) getting a little bit ill for a couple of days and b) getting a little bit more ill for a few more days after that. But now Bruce Cutler appears to be better the trial of Phil Spector can continue with what it does best – letting women take the stand to describe all the terrifying gun-related things that Phil Spector allegedly did to them… with guns.
After the opening statements – where Phil Spector was called "sinister and deadly" – former Phil Spector girlfriend Dorothy Melvin spoke of the time that Spector hit her around the head with a gun 17 years ago, and yesterday was the turn of Dianne Ogden, as The Times reports:
Another former girlfriend of Phil Spector, the 1960s music producer, gave evidence at his murder trial in Los Angeles yesterday, telling the jury that he tried to rape her at gunpoint. Dianne Ogden told the court: “He said he was going to blow my brains out.” … The jury were played a series of emotional voicemails from Mr Spector to Ms Melvin in which the pop legend in turn apologised for his “inexcusable behaviour”, threatened to sue, and concluded darkly: “Be careful what you say to me, because nothing you say to me is worth your life.”
So that's two of Phil Spector's frightened, apparently gun-threatened ex-girlfriends out of the way, and three more to go. Dianne Odgen's testimony is another obstacle in the path to making Phil Spector look innocent of the murder of Lana Clarkson – along with everyone thinking that Phil Spector did it anyway – but only the most pessimistic defence team could see Ogden's claims as completely negative.
Yes, her evidence yesterday might show that Phil Spector has a history of both gunplay and murder threats, but at least all these accusations of Spector being a dangerous gun-toting would-be rapist have drawn people's attention away from all that evidence tampering. And that's sort of something we suppose.
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