Phil Spector Held Me At Gunpoint!

A 3^rd lady told Spector's murder trial on Wed how the music producer threatened her with a hand-gun, years before he allegedly shot dead a B-movie actress at his home.

Stephanie Jennings was the third woman called by the prosecution to show that Spector had a pattern of pulling guns on female companions that led to the shooting of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, in the foyer of his suburban Alhambra mansion on Feb. 3. 2003. She died of gunshot fired with the weapon in her mouth.

Spector's defense claims Clarkson shot herself.

Jennings said she developed a long-distance relationship with Spector in 1994 and the following year she joined him for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions in New York, where Spector got her a room on his floor of the Carlisle Hotel.

She described being at a party where Spector became "extremely drunk, obnoxious" and said she went back to her room and went to sleep.

Jennings said a Spector bodyguard later knocked at her door and told her Spector wanted her to come to his room. She said that after she refused, Spector showed up.

"He was definitely drunk and he was loud and demanding that I come over to his room," Jennings said.

She said Spector told her he was paying for her room and if she wanted to stay she had to go to his room.

Jennings said she told him she would pay for the room and as she began to gather her belongings, especially her camera equipment, Spector followed her around yelling and calling her names as she began to cry.

At some point he followed her into the bathroom and he slapped or pushed her, Jennings said.

"I ended up falling backwards on the toilet," she said.

"I jumped up and I grabbed him and he fell into the bathtub," she said.

She said he got up without a word, left and then came back to her room.

"He had his gun with him and he pulled a chair and put it in front of the door and said I wasn't going anywhere," Jennings said. She described it only as a small gun.

"How did you feel?" asked Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson.

"That I was about to get shot," Jennings said. "I didn't know what was going to happen. I sat on the bed crying."

The witness said she picked up the phone but Spector didn't realize she was calling 911.

"He made the comment that, 'You can call your mom all you want, she can't help you now,"' Jennings said.

The 911 operator told her police would be arriving and by the time they did, she said, Spector was distracted by a commotion in the hallway and left the room. When officers arrived, she said, they didn't take her seriously.

"They were treating me as if I was a call girl," Jennings said.

She said the hotel manager came with the officers and she was urged to go down to his office and talk. Jennings said she did not press charges and the manager gave her money to take a train back to her home in Philadelphia.

Jennings testified that in spite of the incident she accepted an invitation a year later to attend the same event as Spector's guest, but only on the condition that "I wouldn't even see him."

She said she felt she needed to be at the party for her photography contacts "but I wasn't going to be alone with him."

Subsequently, she said, he invited her to a birthday party as his date but she stood him up because she had a new relationship. She said he then left a series of "horrible" phone messages and threatened to make sure she would never work again.

She said Spector then called her one day and said he was in a studio with Celine Dion and asked if she wanted to take pictures. She said she told Spector she could not come that day and he broke off contact.

Spector, 67, was a top producer in the 1960s and later oversaw albums by John Lennon and George Harrison.

Clarkson's big role was in Roger Corman's 1985 "Barbarian Queen." She was a nightclub hostess when she met Spector and went to his home.

[Source Yahoo! News: Entertainment News]

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