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Phil Spector Sentenced To 19 Years For Murder

Wild-maned music producer Phil Spector has been given the maximum sentence of nineteen years to life for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson. Spector will be 88 years old before he’s eligible for parole. He also paid $US17,000 for funeral expenses, as per his sentencing. [CNN, image: Getty]

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  • TomCruiseDiedforYourSins

    @CorradoJr.:

    Love those California sentences. When they actually find a celebrity guilty, it's only 19 yrs for MURDER?

  • bytememehard

    @Turd Ferguson: No, but being an ugly old troll does.

    Does an Adebisi hat fit over an asshat?

  • DonLaFontaine

    In jail, Phil is going to forget all about the Wall of Sound and will become familiar instead with beats per minute.

  • Swordfish

    @HiredGoons: Nice. Now rest.

    Swordfish

  • dado

    @HiredGoons: See you in Sing Sing. That was bad...I can't stanza myself.

  • Turd Ferguson

    Does the wall of sound help protect you if you drop the soap?

    I hope he starts wearing an Adibisi hat.

    Turd Ferguson

  • HiredGoons

    @Richard Lawson: I hope they throw away the key.

  • HiredGoons

    @stew: hey, I said he got what he deserved, I was in no way defending him - and yes, it does suck for his daughter too.

    'your friend's father murdered my friend.' - uh... sorry? I guess.

    yeesh.

  • stew

    @stew: sorry, typo "then maybe." As in, "If it's SO TERRIBLE for him, then maybe he shouldn't shoot women in the face so much."

  • stew

    @HiredGoons: Than maybe he shouldn't fucking KILL PEOPLE.

    "actress" has a name. It's Lana Clarkson. Your friend's father murdered my friend.

  • Richard Lawson

    @HiredGoons: Any more comments like that and you're going to be in serious treble.

  • HiredGoons

    Well, it took a while to METER out justice, but at long last he'll be behind BARS - back to just another MINOR celebrity scandal instead of a MAJOR part of the media's Wall of Sound.

  • BadUncle

    Though, to be fair, he should have gotten life for producing "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling."

  • CorradoJr.

    So you think 19 years is a long sentence for a murder?

    CorradoJr.

  • BadUncle

    @bytememehard: Yeah, why not put the poor bastard in solitary, while they're at it!

  • HiredGoons

    The Frog Man of Alcatraz?

    (too soon?)

  • HiredGoons

    I'm friends with his daughter - this whole thing is terrible for everyone involved (though he got what he deserved).

    That poor girl's family (actress).

  • Fry_Bread_Power

    Was time added on for the assault he made on the public with those crazy fucking wigs?

  • StonedAndDethroned

    @Cheap Shot: I hope I die in a Red Lobster.

    StonedAndDethroned

  • bytememehard

    The worst part of this sentence for him? No wigs in prison.

  • Cheap Shot

    I hope he dies in jail.

  • the_illmatic

    @Mike Jahn: You can thank Yoko for that.

    the_illmatic

  • nellicat

    @stew: Stew, his daughter didn't do anything, and it IS terrible for her that her father is a fucking scumbag murderer. That fact doesn't detract from the horror and pain that Lana Clarkson's family and friends are experiencing; why does there need to be a hierarchy of pain?

  • Mike Jahn

    Couldn't the judge tack on a few years for ruining the Beatles' final tracks?

  • stew

    @HiredGoons: no, go ahead, disrespect murder victims and be all 'who meee??" you're hiLARious and sensitive. I'm glad his daughter has friends like you. You deserve one another.

  • SarahHeartburn

    Nobody should die like that. Everybody deserves more respect than that. Every single person alive. That's all.

    SarahHeartburn

  • SarahHeartburn

    @Richard Lawson: Um, just so¡s you know, in many countries all over the world, even a life sentence is shortened if the guilty party if over 70. In Spain, no one stays in prison over the age of 75, whatever the crime.

    SarahHeartburn

  • katekate is squared

    @CorradoJr.: It's 19 years to life, and he's an old man. He will not see the light of day for the rest of his life.

    katekate is squared

  • NigelAstydameia

    Good riddance, you crazy, murdering asshole. Rest in peace, Lana.

    NigelAstydameia

  • unclevanya

    @Swordfish: He should have taken the Thelma & Louise way out, and driven off a clef.

  • Molesworth

    Has Spector ever been 'wild-maned'? Wild wigged perhaps.

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