Music Producer Phil Spector Gets 19 to Life
June 1, 2009
Phil Spector, fa
med music producer, was
sentenced on May 29 to at least 19 years in prison for the 2003 murder
of a Hollywood actress.
Following a second trail in April, 69-year-old Spector was convicted of second-degree murder. The first trial deadlocked in 2007.
Lana Clarkson, 40, a B-movie actress, died of a shot to the mouth, fired from Spector's gun in the foyer of his home outside LA in 2003. It was the very night the pair met at a Hollywood nightclub hours earlier.
Spector, who worked with The Beatles, The Ronettes and Cher at the height of his career, revolutionized pop music in the 1960s with his
layered "Wall of Sound" production technique.
Still, Spector's defense team said in court papers filed this week that Spector insists "he did not kill Lana Clarkson, and he is not responsible for her death."
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