News - Spector gun death ‘was sex crime’

Music producer Phil Spector murdered an actress at his home in a “sexually motivated” crime, a court has heard.

A detective who attended the scene of Lana Clarkson’s death told the murder trial he found a scene set for romance and the producer was carrying Viagra.

He said: “I thought at that time, as I do today, that this murder had sexual overtones to it, and that the Viagra would prove or disprove certain facts.”

Mr Spector denies shooting Ms Clarkson in Los Angeles in 2003.

Prosecutors claim he shot the 40-year-old B-movie actress and club hostess, while Mr Spector’s lawyers argue that she shot herself.

Lana Clarkson was working as a nightclub hostess

On Tuesday, Sheriff’s homicide detective Mark Lillienfeld testified that Mr Spector’s briefcase contained a packet with one Viagra pill and empty spaces for two more.

However, Mr Lillienfeld later told the defence that he had no evidence to suggest that Mr Spector had taken Viagra that night.

On Wednesday, he described the scene in Mr Spector’s living room on 3 February, 2003, the night of Ms Clarkson’s death.

“The home was dark,” he said. “There were candles lit on the fireplace. There was alcohol out in front of the fireplace, on a coffee table.”

Someone had left a near-empty brandy snifter and a pair of false eyelashes in the bathroom, he added.

“Miss Clarkson, the way she was dressed, the person that she was, the person that the defendant was - all those facts in my mind played into a sexually motivated murder,” he said.

“And the Viagra was a piece of evidence that would perhaps prove later on to be important.”

Mr Spector pioneered the “Wall of Sound” recording technique in the 60s, working with stars such as The Beatles, Tina Turner and The Righteous Brothers.

If convicted, he faces between 15 years and life in prison.

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