Alleged Spector Gunplay Victims 3 & 4 Testify

According to some, Phil Spector was really gunning for women's attention back in the day.

Two more women who claim the Wall of Sound creator threatened them with guns took the stand Wednesday as the prosecution continued its quest to prove that Spector murdered Lana Clarkson on Feb. 3, 2003, in the hallway of his Alhambra mansion.

Photographer Stephanie Jennings, who said she and Spector first had sexual relations in April 1994, testified this morning that the music producer became abusive with her in January 1995 after a party in New York to celebrate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions. (Spector was inducted into the Hall in 1989.)

Spector became "extremely drunk and obnoxious" at the shindig, prompting her to return to her room at the Carlyle Hotel, which was on the same floor as his, Jennings said. She was asleep when Spector's bodyguard knocked on her door and invited her to join Spector in his suite.

When she refused, Jennings continued, Spector himself came to the door and shouted, "I’m paying for this room. You'll come down to my suite if I tell you." They continued to fight and ended up walking into the bathroom, where Spector hit her.

"He slapped me or pushed me," Jennings said. "I ended up falling backwards. I jumped up and I pushed him and he fell into the bathtub." After which Spector left the room for a moment, then returned and pointed a small handgun at her.

"He pulled a chair and put it in front of the door and said I wasn't going anywhere," she said. "I thought I was going to get shot."

That was the last time she was alone with Spector, Jennings said. She had called 911 and explained the incident to investigators, but she never pressed charges.

At a later date, Spector invited her to be his date at a birthday party but she stood him up, Jennings added, after which he left her a series of "horrible" phone messages and threatened to ruin her career.

Spector's defense team countered the story by producing the police transcript from that night at the Carlyle in which, according to attorney Roger Rosen, she seemed to acknowledge that she had accepted Spector's yen for gunplay and boozing as part of his overall persona.

According to the transcript, Rosen said, Jennings had told police that she did not think Spector was actually going to shoot her, and left it open to question whether her relationship with the Hall of Famer had continued after the incident.

Dominating the trial's afternoon session today was witness Melissa Grosvenor, a waitress who characterized her past relationship with Spector as platonic. She met him in May 1991 in New York, she said.

After having dinner and drinks with Spector, who had bought her a plane ticket to SoCal, in Beverly Hills in November 1992, the pair went back to Spector's Pasadena home, Grosvenor testified.

Grosvenor said that she had imbibed one drink and was tired but that Spector was "definitely a little drunk, slurring his words." At about 2 a.m., she wanted to leave and was sitting near the door waiting to go when Spector walked in wearing a shoulder holster and carrying a handgun.

He "walked right up to my face just inches from my eyes and said, 'If you try to leave, I'm gonna kill you," Grosvenor recalled.

Rosen's tactic with this witness was to discredit her, questioning Grosvenor about a past conviction for embezzlement that preceded her leaving her job at a Georgia bank, and why she lied about it on a later employment application. (The prosecution filed a motion yesterday attempting to block this line of questioning, but apparently to no avail.)

In other trial news, the defense, which once claimed that it wasn't going to try to sully Clarkson's character, subpoenaed ex-Hollywood madam Jodi "Babydol" Gibson as a possible witness.

Gibson, who served 22 months in prison for running an international prostitution operation, wrote in her memoir Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam that a tall, blonde girl named "Alana" who once worked for her "would make headlines in the news years later after being found murdered in the home of a wealthy record producer."

Accusing Clarkson of working as a prostitute doesn't seem like a relevant line of questioning, however, USC law professor Jean Rosenbluth, who has been closely following the trial, told the Los Angeles Times. Perhaps Gibson will be called to attest to Clarkson's emotional state in the weeks leading up to her death, the legal scholar surmised.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler first has to rule whether or not to allow Gibson as a witness before the defense can consider putting her on the stand. Rosen declined to comment on what Gibson might be called on to testify about.

Gibson's "trick book," a collection of handwritten address books and payment logs used as evidence at her 2000 trial, contains entries for an "Alana" and a "Lana Cl," the Times reported.