Phil Spector's biographer has said that the legendary producer could commit suicide rather than face the 15 year to life prison sentence he may now receive having been convicted of the murder of actress Lana Clarkson. Spector will be sentenced next month.
Commenting on how the producer would cope with the prospect of a long prison sentence, which may conceivably amount to the rest of the 69 year old producer's life, even if he's not actually imprisoned for life, writer Scott Raab told reporters: "He's an old man. It's hard to see a guy like that, at his age, surrendering to an 18-year minimum sentence. He would kill himself first. He is full of fear, and always was, and he lives with a sense of extreme vulnerability".
Spector, of course, plans to appeal, and one would assume that might give the producer, however unstable he may or may not be mentally, something to continue to fight for.