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Going West: True Crime

Lana Clarkson // 472

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In February of 2003, a 40-year-old model and actress living in Los Angeles headed to her shift at the House of Blues Hollywood like any other Sunday. When a successful, notable music producer walked in to her VIP lounge, they got to talking - and her shift ended with him inviting her back to his mansion for a nightcap. But within an hour of his driver dropping them inside his home, a gunshot rang out, and she was pronounced dead in the foyer. This is the story of Lana Clarkson.

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne and you're listening to going west hello everybody i hope

0:22.4

you're doing well today today we have a los angeles case for you guys i'm very surprised that we've

0:28.2

never gotten recommended this case i growing up your didn't even ever hear about this case i remember

0:34.1

i was in high school when this whole thing was kind of unfolding.

0:38.3

Did you know about it?

0:39.1

I did remember hearing about it or seeing it on the news, but I never got to dive deep into this story.

0:45.2

This story surrounds celebrity murder, and it's very, very disturbing.

0:51.0

Yeah, there's a lot of really interesting backstory here that we're going to get into

0:55.2

first and just so much to discuss overall. But yeah, I didn't hear about this until recently. My

1:00.7

sister told me about it. I was like, what? So without further ado, let's dive into it.

1:04.9

All right, guys, this is episode 472 of going west. so let's get into it. The jury in the Phil Spector murder trial could begin its deliberations Wednesday.

1:39.4

Tuesday during closing arguments, Spector's attorney told jurors that scientific evidence proves Lana Clarkson

1:45.0

committed suicide inside Spector's mansion six years ago. The attorney urged jurors to ignore the

1:50.8

prosecution efforts to paint Spector as a man with a violent history. The prosecution gave its

1:55.7

closing argument Monday, calling Spector a demonic maniac who had a history of threatening women with guns.

2:02.6

He's accused of shooting a woman to death in his suburban Los Angeles home.

2:06.6

Police were saying little else about the woman in her 20s found dead in the foyer of Spector's

2:11.6

Hilltop Mansion. A gun has also been recovered. Someone called 911,

2:16.6

reporting shots fired at the million dollar home in the pre-dawn hours.

2:20.7

Legendary music producer Phil Spector shot and killed actress Lana Clarkson. It happened on February 3rd, 2003,

2:28.0

here at Phil Spector's Castle, on a hilltop overlooking Los Angeles. Spector had met Lana Clarkson

2:33.5

earlier that night. They came back

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