What Phil Spector (allegedly) did at Joan Rivers' Christmas party

Amid the election clamor, the Phil Spector retrial slowly moves ahead. It still seems a little like a repeat. Today's edition includes testimony about some questionable behavior by the music mogul at Joan Rivers' Christmas party. AP picks up the story:

A security guard for Joan Rivers testified Monday in Phil Spector’s murder retrial that the music producer was ejected from two of the star’s Christmas parties for brandishing a gun and declaring that all women should be shot. Rivers’ manager, who dated Spector in the 1990s, also took the witness stand and told of being threatened by him with a gun. Vincent Tannazzo, a retired New York City police detective who now occasionally works for Rivers, testified that Spector at a party turned toward a woman leaving and said, "I ought to put a bullet in her head right now." He also said Spector was "ranting" and that he used an obscenity to describe women. "He kept saying (the obscenity) over and over again," Tannazzo testified. “He was out of control. He was just yelling over and over again."

--Shelby Grad

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