Woman Says Phil Spector Turned 'Demonic'

By LINDA DEUTSCH
The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 8, 2007; 4:30 AM

LOS ANGELES -- A second woman has testified that Phil Spector threatened her with a gun, saying the music producer suddenly turned "demonic" after a party 18 years ago and tried to rape her.

Prosecutors called Dianne Ogden, a music talent coordinator, to support its case that Spector's pattern of threatening women with guns led to the killing of actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot at Spector's suburban Alhambra mansion on Feb. 3, 2003.


Dianne Ogden testifies during music producer Phil Spector's murder trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, Monday, May 7, 2007. Spector is accused of killing actress Lana Clarkson at his home four years ago. (AP Photo/Jamie Rector, Pool)
Dianne Ogden testifies during music producer Phil Spector's murder trial in Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, Monday, May 7, 2007. Spector is accused of killing actress Lana Clarkson at his home four years ago. (AP Photo/Jamie Rector, Pool) (Jamie Rector - AP)

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Ogden testified Monday that Spector seemed to undergo a personality change as she tried to leave another Spector mansion in Pasadena after a party in 1989.

"He was screaming at me, the F-word," she said. "He wasn't my Phil, not the man I loved. It wasn't him. He was demonic. It scared the hell out of me."

She said he first approached her with a rifle, then picked up a pistol and "he put it all over me, yelling things."

Ogden pointed to various parts of her face to indicate where the gun was pointed.

"It was like he was taken over by something. It wasn't Phillip."

At one point, she said, Spector ordered her up to his bedroom.

"Did he try to be intimate?" asked Deputy District Attorney Pat Dixon.

"Yes he did," she said. "He did it by gunpoint. He wanted to rape me."

Ogden said Spector tried to have sex with her and it was "icky."

"I had never had a sexual relationship with him," she said.


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