Second Witness Tells Trial How Spector Held Gun to Her Head

The murder trial of Phil Spector heard yesterday from a second woman who alleged that the veteran music producer once held her at gunpoint at his home.

Diane Ogden, a music industry talent coordinator, said that Spector, who was usually "funny and a gentleman", had said he was going to "blow her brains out" one night in 1989 after a party at his Pasadena home.

"He was screaming at me, the F-word," she said. "He wasn't my Phil, not the man I loved. It wasn't him. He was demonic. It scared the hell out of me. He said he was going to blow my brains out. That wasn't romantic to me."

Ms Ogden told how Spector had used a remote control to lock the doors to his mansion to prevent her leaving, then picked up a rifle, followed by a pistol, which he pressed into her face. "He didn't have a rifle anymore," she told the jury between sips of water. "He had a gun, a pistol, pointed into my face."

She showed the jury how he had pressed the barrel of the gun into her cheek, forehead and her nose. "I said, 'Phillip, please let me go. Put the gun down'," she said.

He then forced her at gunpoint to go upstairs to his bedroom, where, in the words of prosecutors, he tried to be "intimate" with her. "He did it by gunpoint," Ms Ogden said, "he wanted to rape me."

The next morning Spector was singing in the shower as if nothing had happened, she told the court.

She said she had not reported Spector to the authorities, and was only testifying at the trial because she had been subpoenaed. "I still cared about him. I thought if he wasn't drinking that wouldn't have happened. I forgave him," she said.

An earlier witness in the trial, Dorothy Melvin, told a similar story, with Spector allegedly pulling a gun on her and ordering her to remove her clothing. The court yesterday heard phone messages left by Spector on Melvin's voicemail shortly after the incident occurred, in which he appeared to threaten her. "Be careful what you say to me because nothing you say is worth your life," he said.

Spector is on trial for the second degree murder of Lana Clarkson, who was found dead in his home of a single gunshot wound to the head in February 2003.