Phil Spector Trial Turns Dramatic

Prosecutors in the Phil Spector murder case have submitted potentially damning evidence to the trial that claims he has a history of violence towards women.

One of his former assistants is also prepared to testify that Spector put a gun to her head and refused to let her leave his home after parties, prosecutors said, as they attempt to allow the new evidence to be entered into the trial.

Judge Larry Paul Fidler has already ruled that four women can testify that Spector threatened them with guns between 1988 and 1995. The evidence is allowed because it apparently shows a "lack of accident or mistake" in Spector's behaviour the night of Clarkson's death.

At a party held at Joan Rivers' house Spector is alleged to have said that women "deserve to die. They all deserve a bullet in their … head."

Spector is accused of killing actress Lana Clarkson at his Alhambra mansion in February 2003 with a shot to the head.