Spector’s Differing Accounts Are Filed

Music industry figure Phil Spector told police that actress Lana Clarkson sang hit songs he had produced, including “Da Doo Run Run” and “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling,” before she grabbed his gun and shot herself, according to court papers filed Friday.

At the shooting scene, however, Spector apologized for Clarkson’s death, saying, “The gun went off accidentally.”

Prosecutors filed a motion Friday, seeking to admit the contradictory statements at trial to help prove the producer killed the B-movie actress and nightclub hostess after she agreed to accompany him from the House of Blues in Hollywood to his Alhambra mansion Feb. 3, 2003.

Spector, 64, has pleaded not guilty and is free on $1-million bail. He faces life in prison if convicted. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry P. Fidler has asked attorneys to be ready to go to trial by January.

In an interview at the police station, Spector showed how he said Clarkson shot herself, pointing an imaginary gun at his temple, pretending to pull the trigger and twitching his head, according to the motion, filed by Deputy Dist. Atty. Douglas Sortino.

Spector also told the police investigator: “People don’t point guns at me and get away with it,” the motion added.

Earlier, authorities disclosed that Spector’s driver, Adriano De Souza, told a 911 dispatcher that the producer told him he had killed a woman.

Sortino, in his motion, said Spector’s statements, both at his home and later at the police station, were made voluntarily.

The prosecutor also sought to blunt contentions by defense attorneys that Spector was not allowed to talk to an attorney, detailing the producer’s rambling and sometimes belligerent statements, including his insistence he had to leave to catch a plane to New York City to work with Bono of the band U2.

In motions filed earlier this month, defense attorneys Bruce Culter and Roger Rosen argued that Spector was suffering withdrawal symptoms from seven prescription drugs when he admitted he had accidentally shot Clarkson.

Spector “was experiencing symptoms of withdrawal from his medications, which could include hallucinations, forgetfulness, serious fatigue, and/or slurring,” the defense filing said.