Tearing Down the Wall of Sound (27 page)

The Spector family: Harvey, Benjamin, Bertha and Shirley. A celebratory dinner, circa 1947.

The Teddy Bears, 1958.
(Left to right)
Phil Spector, Annette Kleinbard and Marshall Lieb.

With Jack Nitzsche
(left)
and Darlene Love, Gold Star Studios, 1963.

With Larry Levine and Annette Spector, Gold Star Studios, 1963.

With the Ronettes, Gold Star Studios, 1963.

With Tina and Ike Turner, Gold Star Studios, 1966.

Phil Spector and George Brand guarding the La Collina mansion, 1975.

The Pyrenees Castle, Alhambra, photographed on the morning of Spector's arrest.

Phil Spector after his arrest on the morning of February 3, 2003.

The Colt revolver that killed Lana Clarkson.

Police diagram showing where Clarkson's body was found.

Lana Clarkson.

Rachelle Spector.

Phil Spector appears in court, May 2005.

The billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke had once lived there, but the house now belonged to Lance Revilot, a racing driver, pilot and playboy, and the son of the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. Spector led friends to believe that he had bought the property; in fact, he had been given the option to buy it for $300,000, but chose to lease it instead. It would prove an expensive decision. At frequent intervals over the following years, when the lease came up for renewal, he would be offered the option to buy, but always refused. “I think,” one friend says, “it was a symptom of Phil's general reluctance to commit.” By the time he finally gave up the house twenty-one years later, in 1986, Spector had paid the original asking price many times over.