1977 Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen describes Spector as being "flipped out" during the recording of his album Death of a Ladies' Man. On one occasion, apparently, the producer approaches him with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a

1977

Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen describes Spector as being "flipped out" during the recording of his album Death of a Ladies' Man. On one occasion, apparently, the producer approaches him with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other.

CIRCA 1978
In 2003, Spector's sons Gary and Donte tell the tabloid press stories of a childhood filled with sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of their father. Both brothers speak of being held on house arrest, locked in their separate rooms, behind the barbed wire and bars that cover their windows. They are allegedly only permitted to leave their quarters for breakfast and when they are escorted to school by guards.

Gary tells of being blindfolded and sexually molested by his father as a "learning experience," while Donte reports that, at the tender age of nine, he was blindfolded, handcuffed, and forced to simulate intercourse with his father's girlfriend.