Phil Spector footage to air tonight
Exclusive video of Phil Spector talking about the 2003 shooting death of Lana Clarkson will be shown on the syndicated program Inside Edition tonight (Wednesday, May 16th). Spector filmed the footage in 2005 in hopes of posting it online, and is shown sitting in the infamous chess room of his Los Angeles mansion where Clarkson died on February 3rd, 2003, after going home with Spector.
In the video, Spector denies having anything to do with Clarkson's death, saying "She may have accidentally taken own life. She may have purposefully taken her own life. She may have been eating the gun with her dancing... I don't know why, when, how or where in what circumstance. She may have taken her own life -- whether she planned to or not. It is not my responsibility to do that."
Spector goes on to talk about various relationships he's had with women over the years: "I had all kinds of relationships with them for years afterwards (sic) of the dates they say I put a gun to their head... It's nonsense. They just want to get on Inside Edition... They just want to testify at the trial. And, they just want to make money." In the video he offers the women $100,000 to take a lie detector test and holds up a signed check.
Check your local listings for Inside Edition station and times.
On Monday night's episode (May 15th) of Inside Edition, Spector's adopted son Louis Spector spoke about the outlandish upbringing he and his and his two other adopted siblings experienced, explaining that, "(My father) always carried a double holster, guns on both sides. And he always wore his shades, and if he wanted to make a threat, all he had to do is lean over, tilt his shades a little bit and reveal his holsters and say something like: 'Now you don't want to be doing that again.'"
Louis and his twin brother Gary were adopted by Spector when they were six years old. Spector kicked him out of the house when he was 19. Louis recently attended his father's trial and saw him for the first time in seven years: "I am a stranger in his eyes as he is in my eyes."
At yesterday's trial in Los Angeles, Sophia Holguin, a cocktail waitress and co-worker of Clarkson's at the House of Blues nightclub, testified about Spector's state of mind the night of Clarkson's death. The Associated Press reported that she said, "He was very, very agitated and very fast-speaking, a little slurrish." She noted that after Spector finished his drink, he ordered "a high-alcohol Bacardi 151 served straight up, and asked for another but was refused because it was after 2 a.m."
Spector remains free on $1 million bail.
In the video, Spector denies having anything to do with Clarkson's death, saying "She may have accidentally taken own life. She may have purposefully taken her own life. She may have been eating the gun with her dancing... I don't know why, when, how or where in what circumstance. She may have taken her own life -- whether she planned to or not. It is not my responsibility to do that."
Spector goes on to talk about various relationships he's had with women over the years: "I had all kinds of relationships with them for years afterwards (sic) of the dates they say I put a gun to their head... It's nonsense. They just want to get on Inside Edition... They just want to testify at the trial. And, they just want to make money." In the video he offers the women $100,000 to take a lie detector test and holds up a signed check.
Check your local listings for Inside Edition station and times.
On Monday night's episode (May 15th) of Inside Edition, Spector's adopted son Louis Spector spoke about the outlandish upbringing he and his and his two other adopted siblings experienced, explaining that, "(My father) always carried a double holster, guns on both sides. And he always wore his shades, and if he wanted to make a threat, all he had to do is lean over, tilt his shades a little bit and reveal his holsters and say something like: 'Now you don't want to be doing that again.'"
Louis and his twin brother Gary were adopted by Spector when they were six years old. Spector kicked him out of the house when he was 19. Louis recently attended his father's trial and saw him for the first time in seven years: "I am a stranger in his eyes as he is in my eyes."
At yesterday's trial in Los Angeles, Sophia Holguin, a cocktail waitress and co-worker of Clarkson's at the House of Blues nightclub, testified about Spector's state of mind the night of Clarkson's death. The Associated Press reported that she said, "He was very, very agitated and very fast-speaking, a little slurrish." She noted that after Spector finished his drink, he ordered "a high-alcohol Bacardi 151 served straight up, and asked for another but was refused because it was after 2 a.m."
Spector remains free on $1 million bail.
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