Prosecutors have found a new witness willing to testify against Phil Spector in his upcoming retrial for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson - though it's another one of those witnesses who will say Spector is prone to make threats with guns when alone with women, of which there are already five, so I'm not sure it will make much difference.
Norma Kemper, who worked as Spector's assistant in 1996, says that the producer once took her to dinner at LA restaurant Dan Tana's, the same restaurant he took Clarkson to the night she died. During the meal he got drunk and made sexual advances towards her. When she turned him down he revealed a gun beneath his jacket and said, "You know, I could kill you right now".
Spector's new lawyers are reportedly trying to stop both Kemper and the other women who provided similar stories at the producer's first trial from testifying this time round. As previously reported, Spector's second murder trial is due to take place this Autumn - the first one resulted in a mistrial after the jury couldn't reach a unanimous decision as to Spector's role - or not - in Clarkson's death.