filed under: Phil Spector

"I think," LANA CLARKSON said at the start of 2003, "that I will act till I die! God willing, this is the year it will happen." It did...and now rock legend Phil Spector is on trial for her murder (photo).

Spector first found fame by borrowing the inscription on his father's tombstone to write "To Know Him Is To Love Him," the 1958 hit for his group The Teddy Bears. But ever since, he's been no picnic...and one of the trial's opening witnesses, Joan Rivers' former personal assistant Dorothy Melvin claimed that Spector smacked her in the head with a gun in 1993 and sneered, "Take your fucking clothes off." more »

First off, let me apologize for the recent blog inactivity--Mrs. Sleuth and I have just returned from "a figure finding mission" all around South America! And just in time for the start of the Phil Spector murder trial--the first televised courtroom spectacle since O.J.! And, as in that case, the beautiful blonde victim is about to get slimed. more »