Phil Spector Murder Trial: Guns, Heads, Girls, Etc.
August 9th, 2007 at 16:30 by Stuart Heritage
You know, we're starting to suspect that we're the only people on the face of the Earth who Phil Spector hasn't angrily pulled a gun on - and the raft of women testifying about it in the Phil Spector murder trial is making us feel left out.
Today it's expected that Devra Robitaille, one of Phil Spector's old employees and girlfriends, will take to stand to claim that Phil Spector once held a gun to her head as she attempted to leave his presence. Now, you might be wondering why the prosecution against Phil Spector is bothering with Devra Robitaille's testimony when so many other women have come forward to say the exact same thing about Phil Spector - but Robitaille is unique in that she's the only person who Phil Spector has pulled a gun on that has a first name that sounds a bit like a government farming agency. And, really, that's the key here.
Is it just us, or does anyone else think that nobody really wants the Phil Spector murder trial to end? Sure, Phil Spector's defence may have asked for the trial to be thrown out, but you could tell that their hearts weren't really in it. And even though Phil Spector's defence rested last week, people keep edging back up to the witness stand to witter irrelevant nonsense, like Phil Spector's daughter and Michael Bay. And this weird determination to never let the Phil Spector murder trial end is the only reason why we can see that the prosecution has started to bring back women to yammer on about how Phil Spector held a gun to their head once.
The fact that Phil Spector enjoyed waggling guns around in the face of women isn't especially new - the trial opened with a woman describing how Phil Spector had smacked her in the head with a gun, and that was followed by a woman claiming that Phil Spector tried to rape her at gunpoint, and another woman who had also been the subject of a Phil Spector gun-pull, and a woman who thought that Phil Spector with a gun looked like Elmer Fudd. Finally, just for the very stupid people who hadn't got the message, a man testified that Phil Spector once claimed that all women deserved a bullet in the head, although Spector said "fucking cunts" instead of "women" just for the sake of variation.
And now? Well now it looks like the prosecution against Phil Spector will call Devra Robitaille to the stand, a woman who - surprise surprise - says that Phil Spector pulled a gun on her once. The Los Angeles Times reports:
The judge in the Phil Spector murder trial ruled Wednesday that a fifth woman will be allowed to testify that the music producer threatened her with a gun. The testimony of Devra Robitaille, a former employee and girlfriend of Spector, follows accounts from four other women, each of whom told the jury earlier in the trial that Spector had pulled a gun when she tried to leave his presence. Defense lawyers strongly objected to Robitaille's trial appearance, arguing that she should have been called earlier and that jurors might be "unduly influenced" by her testimony. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler disagreed.
If the name Devra Robitaille sounds familiar, it's because the judge had originally rejected her as a witness following claims that Phil Spector once held a rifle to her head and offered to "blow her fucking brains out." Robitaille's testimony will come after the jurors all go for a tour around Phil Spector's home where Lana Clarkson was shot to death.
Anyway, we were serious about feeling left out that Phil Spector has held guns to the heads of everyone except for us - and, regardless of the verdict, it won't be something he'll be in a rush to do again - so it looks like our time has passed. No matter - if any of you out there have grandmothers with particularly lesbianish hair, we'd be happy to pay a packet of crisps to them if they could recreate the sensation by holding a water pistol to our heads, calling us "fucking cunts" and then humming River Deep Mountain High for a couple of minutes.
