05-08-2007, 05:52 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/0...stifi.html
It's fascinating how he treated women and it's amazing he never killed anybody until Lana Turner. What do you think of him?
BY MICHELLE CARUSO
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF
Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 4:00 AM
Dianne Ogden testified yesterday.
Phil Spector
LOS ANGELES - An ex-girlfriend of Phil Spector testified yesterday the music mogul marched her at gunpoint to his bedroom, made her undress and tried to rape her after threatening to "blow [her] brains out" about 18 years ago.
At times tearful and shaking, Dianne Ogden told the jury in Spector's murder trial about three disturbing encounters that occurred between 1982 and 1989.
"I cared about him. He could have been romantic, but he did it by gunpoint. He wanted to rape me," Ogden said in a quivering voice as she wiped away tears with a tissue.
"He had me take off some clothes. ... He tried to have intercourse with me," she said, describing an incident in March 1989 that involved a handgun.
The blond woman, who worked part-time as Spector's assistant in the late '80s, said she spent the entire night in Spector's bed with the gun in the room, too scared to move. She awoke the next morning to find the record producer chipper and crooning away as if nothing had happened.
"He had a radio in the shower. He was singing," she said.
Ogden was the second woman to testify that Spector threatened her with a gun when she tried to head home after a date.
The first, Dorothy Melvin, said Spector pistol-whipped her and chased her with a shotgun when she tried to leave his home after a date in July 1993.
He is accused of fatally shooting B-movie actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his home on Feb. 3, 2003, after a booze-filled night on the town.
Shouting loudly, defense lawyer Bruce Cutler tried to shake Ogden on cross-examination, but he only succeeded in getting bawled out by the judge.
"You formed an opinion that Phillip is guilty!" Cutler roared, poking his finger at Ogden.
"Mr. Cutler, I'm going to tell you for the last time. ... You need to stop yelling," Judge Larry Fidler scolded.
It's fascinating how he treated women and it's amazing he never killed anybody until Lana Turner. What do you think of him?
BY MICHELLE CARUSO
DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF
Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 4:00 AM
Dianne Ogden testified yesterday.
Phil Spector
LOS ANGELES - An ex-girlfriend of Phil Spector testified yesterday the music mogul marched her at gunpoint to his bedroom, made her undress and tried to rape her after threatening to "blow [her] brains out" about 18 years ago.
At times tearful and shaking, Dianne Ogden told the jury in Spector's murder trial about three disturbing encounters that occurred between 1982 and 1989.
"I cared about him. He could have been romantic, but he did it by gunpoint. He wanted to rape me," Ogden said in a quivering voice as she wiped away tears with a tissue.
"He had me take off some clothes. ... He tried to have intercourse with me," she said, describing an incident in March 1989 that involved a handgun.
The blond woman, who worked part-time as Spector's assistant in the late '80s, said she spent the entire night in Spector's bed with the gun in the room, too scared to move. She awoke the next morning to find the record producer chipper and crooning away as if nothing had happened.
"He had a radio in the shower. He was singing," she said.
Ogden was the second woman to testify that Spector threatened her with a gun when she tried to head home after a date.
The first, Dorothy Melvin, said Spector pistol-whipped her and chased her with a shotgun when she tried to leave his home after a date in July 1993.
He is accused of fatally shooting B-movie actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his home on Feb. 3, 2003, after a booze-filled night on the town.
Shouting loudly, defense lawyer Bruce Cutler tried to shake Ogden on cross-examination, but he only succeeded in getting bawled out by the judge.
"You formed an opinion that Phillip is guilty!" Cutler roared, poking his finger at Ogden.
"Mr. Cutler, I'm going to tell you for the last time. ... You need to stop yelling," Judge Larry Fidler scolded.
