too bad he won’t live past 19 months! LOL!
“Spector is a frail and ailing 69-year-old for whom the mandated minimum sentence of 15 years would likely be a life sentence”
Is it me, or does Phil Spector look like a gobblin with a jherri curl? LOL!
Music producer PHIL SPECTOR has been sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress LANA CLARKSON.
A Los Angeles judge sentenced Spector on Friday to 15 years to life for second-degree murder and four years for personal use of a gun. The judge is also ordering restitution payments.
A jury convicted the 69-year-old Spector in the fatal shooting of Clarkson at his home in 2003.
Spector plans an appeal.
Backstory on the case from AP’s earlier coverage:
“Six years ago, Phil Spector was barely a blip on the American celebrity radar screen. Although his music lived on, his name and face were only dimly recalled by rock music aficionados until a shooting at his Alhambra mansion propelled him to notoriety.
Now he faces sentencing Friday on second-degree murder of actress Lana Clarkson, a conviction that suggests to some that California prosecutors have broken a decades-long string of celebrity murder case losses. The names O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake come to mind.”
But Spector is in a class of his own. He was not a performer, not a sports star with a following or a singer who captivated the public. He was a music producer, a behind-the-scenes guy whose ideas changed the sound of rock music. He invented the “Wall of Sound,” a revolutionary recording technique. And he was known for bizarre behavior. Famous, yes. A celebrity? Not in today’s pop culture.
Spector is a frail and ailing 69-year-old for whom the mandated minimum sentence of 15 years would likely be a life sentence. His lawyer says he is enduring jail by focusing on his plans to appeal.
