More on the Phil Spector case for you. Prosecutors preparing their case against the legendary producer in his upcoming murder trial are reportedly hoping to be able to use evidence given by an ex-girlfriend and a retired New York City police officer, the former claiming Spector once pulled a gun on her, and the latter claiming he once witnessed Spector participating in a misogynistic rant in which he said all women deserved to die.
Ex-cop Vince Tannazzo reportedly says he witnessed Spector's ranting at a party at the home of Joan Rivers back in 1995 where he was working as a security guard. He says he was asked to escort Spector off the premises after some kind of disagreement, and that Spector told him: "They [women] all deserve to die. They all deserve a bullet in their (expletive) head. That's why I got permits for all over. Wherever I go, I always keep a gun, because these (expletive), they're all no (expletive) good".
Devra Robitaille, who dated Spector while working for his company Warner Spector Records in the mid-seventies, claims that on one occasion the producer placed a shotgun against her forehead as she tried to leave his house after a party and that he said "Just so you know, I'll blow your (expletive) head off'". Robitaille says she defused the situation by pushing the gun away and telling Spector "knock that off and put that away", and that eventually he let her leave. But she adds that a similar incident happened after a night of drinking ten years later.
Spector's defence lawyers are sure to question the relevance of these past incidents to the current case - in which he is accused of shooting dead actress Lana Clarkson at his Beverly Hills home back in 2003. However, the prosecution are keen to show that the producer has a long history of threatening behaviour against women and that, therefore, it is believable he would have shot Clarkson that night at his home. A court hearing on 10 Apr should decide whether the prosecution will be able to present Tannazzo and Robitaille as witnesses at the murder trial.
PS: By the way, the expletives were removed in the court papers that those quotes come from - nothing to do with us, fuck no.