Spector Witness: "Something Was Terribly Wrong" That Night

The testimony being given in Phil Spector's murder trial finally made it into the 21st century today.

Following accounts from four women who say the famed music producer terrified them at least once during the 1990s with his drunken gunplay, two ladies who saw Spector the night Lana Clarkson died took the stand Thursday as the prosecution worked to establish Spector's state of mind at the time of the actress' death.

Rommie Davis, a classmate of Spector's at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles who dined with him every night during the weekend before Clarkson's death in the wee hours of Monday, Feb. 3, testified that she saw him mix pills and booze Friday through Sunday.

Davis and Spector ate at the Grill on the Alley in Beverly Hills on Sunday, Feb. 2, where Spector ordered two daiquiris, according to the witness.

"I was very concerned about him," Davis said. "He took medication and I knew that alcohol and medication is a lethal combination."

Echoing the other women who had testified that there was something a little off about Spector on the nights when he threatened them with firearms, Davis said, "Phillip did not usually drink when I went out with him. He was not his usual self…Something was terribly wrong."

Davis did add, however, that she never felt threatened by Spector or saw him with a gun, and on that Sunday night he brought her home some time between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.

The defense did its best to find inconsistencies between Davis' account on the stand and her previous statements to investigators, pointing out that she never told authorities about voicing her concerns to Spector about his mixing meds and alcohol and had never mentioned Spector being drunk that night.

"I'm not an expert on alcoholism," Davis responded.

Next to testify was the second woman Spector spent time with the night of Feb. 2, a waitress at the Grill named Kathy Sullivan, who went with him to nearby Trader Vic's and then Dan Tana's in West Hollywood after he had taken Davis home.

Spector drank Navy Grogs and daiquiris at both establishments and they both picked at a salad, Sullivan said. Then, the pair went to the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard, where Spector met Clarkson, a hostess in the VIP area, for the first time.

At first, Clarkson wouldn't let them into the elite Foundation Room, Sullivan recounted, prompting Spector to ask, "Do you know who I am?" Clarkson's boss eventually told her who Spector was, and she let them in.

Shortly after 2 a.m., Sullivan said, she ordered a bottle of water and Spector told his driver, Adriano De Souza, "Get Lana. I'm sending Kathy home." After which, De Souza—the one who later in the night would allegedly hear Spector say, "I think I killed someone"—took Sullivan home.

Receipts from the evening entered into evidence showed that Spector ordered two daiquiris at the Grill, two Navy Grogs at Trader Vic's, two more daiquiris at Dan Tana's and a Bacardi 151 drink at the House of Blues.

Earlier in the day, defense attorney Roger Rosen finished his cross-examination of New York waitress Melissa Grosvenor, who testified Wednesday that Spector, who had bought her a plane ticket for a visit to California in 1992, threatened her one night when she tried to leave his Pasadena home to return to her hotel.

"He walked up, held the gun to my face between my eyes and said, 'If you try to leave I'm going to kill you,'" Grosvenor recalled.

Grosvenor eventually fell asleep in a chair near the door and woke up the next morning when Spector asked her if she wanted to go to breakfast. She accepted so she could "find someone to help me get away from him," she said.

Spector came into the Manhattan restaurant where she worked at least 10 more times after that incident, Grosvenor said, but she didn't go out with him again. After she refused his offer for a date several months later, he left her angry messages saying, "I've got a machine gun. I know where you live."

Rosen had tried to discredit Grosvenor by bringing up her past conviction on an embezzlement charge, but she testified today that she believed her drug-addicted sister had been paid by Spector to feed his camp defamatory information about her.

"We don't have a relationship now," Grosvenor said about her sister Angela. "I tried to help her, put her in rehab, but I've stopped giving her money. I think she's getting money now from Spector and that's why she's doing this to me."

Spector's lawyer also pointedly asked Grosvenor if the defendant had ever given her a gun to hold or forced her to put a gun in her mouth. (Clarkson was killed by a gunshot to the mouth and the defense is arguing that she shot herself accidentally.) Grosvenor said no to both questions and admitted that she didn't know whether the gun was loaded.

"I wouldn't be sitting here if it was," she told Rosen.

Also heard Thursday were two profanity-laced voicemail messages that Spector left for prosecution witness Stephanie Jennings, the third woman to testify about gunplay, after she stood him up for a date. She said yesterday that, after the night in 1995 when he pointed a gun at her, she was never alone with him again.

"Never shovel it with a shoveler, kid, cause I'll [expletive] put you out of business," Spector said in one message. "Goodbye, kid. Go f--- yourself."

Testimony is scheduled to resume Monday, starting with Rosen's cross-examination of Sullivan. Several waiters who served Spector on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003, are expected to take the stand, as well, and De Souza may be called as early as Monday afternoon.

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