Woman tells of Spector gun threat

"He put it all over me," Dianne Ogden said as she moved her finger from her right cheek to her nose to her forehead. Spector, she said, ordered her to the bedroom of his home, then in Pasadena, because, Ogden said, "he wanted to rape me."

Spector, who has worked with the Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, is charged with murdering actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot in the mouth at his Alhambra mansion Feb. 3, 2003. He has pleaded not guilty and is free on $1-million bail.

On cross-examination, defense attorney Bruce Cutler angrily accused Ogden of adding details she had not told investigators, and of shaping her account after talking to police. "You formed an opinion!" he shouted.

Cutler's outbursts prompted a reprimand from Judge Larry Paul Fidler. "You will not point and yell at witnesses in my courtroom -- ever!" Fidler said, glaring at Cutler.

An instant after he agreed to that, Cutler again shouted "you formed an opinion" at Ogden and pounded his fist on the table. Fidler told jurors to disregard Cutler's outburst. Moments later, Cutler's voice again rattled the courtroom, prompting prosecutor Patrick Dixon to spring to his feet. "Your honor, ask him to stop," Dixon said heatedly, pointing toward Cutler.

Fidler later told both men to stop shouting. "My hearing's OK. Other things are failing, but not that," he said.

Testimony will resume Wednesday because of a juror's scheduling conflict today. Fidler will hear motions from lawyers without the jury present.

Ogden, who said she had been a friend and part-time assistant to Spector, is the second woman to testify that the producer had threatened her with a gun when she tried to leave his home.

Prosecutors are expected to call at least two other women to testify that they also were held at gunpoint when they rejected Spector's advances, bolstering the district attorney's theory that he followed a pattern of luring women to his home, drinking, then pulling guns on them when they tried to leave -- the blueprint, they say, for Clarkson's death.

Spector's attorneys contend Clarkson shot herself after meeting Spector that night at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, where she worked as a hostess in the club's VIP room.