Phil Spector is launching a third appeal against his conviction for murder.

Al Pacino is set to star as legendary record producer Phil Spector in a TV film to be written and directed by David Mamet, TV channel HBO said.

The legendary producer Phil Spector – who is currently in prison serving a minimum 19-year sentence for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson - has masterminded the debut album of his wife Rachelle, 'Out of My Chelle', which will be released on June 8.

The legendary music producer Phil Spector - who was jailed last June for 19 years for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson - has created a disc of tracks with wife Rachelle Short, which was put together prior to his sentencing.

Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked a US appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.

Phil Spector has never discussed the night he murdered Lana Clarkson with his wife.

MUSIC mogul and convicted murderer Phil Spector, who complained about his prison quarters but later said he wanted to stay put, is being moved to make room for inmates requiring outpatient mental health treatment.

Phil Spector has said that prison is like a "snake pit".

MUSIC legend Phil Spector has been assigned to a “sensitive needs facility” in California’s largest state prison to serve his sentence for murdering an actress.

A prison mug shot of legendary music producer Phil Spector shows the man beneath the wigs.

Music producer Phil Spector was jailed for life with a minimum of 19 years today for murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

Music producer Phil Spector will be sentenced in Los Angeles today for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

A lawyer for music producer Phil Spector said he maintained he did not kill actress Lana Clarkson and was not responsible for her death, according to a court document.

Music producer Phil Spector was facing a lengthy jail term today after being convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson.

The jury in Phil Spector’s murder retrial has signalled that it has reached a verdict.

Jurors today resumed deliberations in the retrial of music producer Phil Spector.

Scottish DJ Calvin Harris is planning a summer collaboration with Katy Perry - after the 'I Kissed a Girl' singer begged him to be her Phil Spector.

Deliberations in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial will not resume until next week due to a juror’s illness, a judge said today.

The murder case against music producer Phil Spector is in the hands of a jury again.

SIX years after actress Lana Clarkson died in Phil Spector’s mansion, the jury in the Wall of Sound producer’s second murder trial were expected to begin deliberations last night.

The jury in Phil Spector’s second murder trial will visit the famed music producer’s home where actress Lana Clarkson died, but the judge set strict rules on the presence of Spector’s wife and the operation of an outdoor fountain.

A prosecutor in the murder retrial of Phil Spector portrayed the producer as a musical genius who repeatedly threatened women with guns and could become “very sinister, very violent and very deadly” when he was drunk.

A WITNESS at Phil Spector’s murder retrial will be allowed to testify that the record producer used incendiary language about women and once stated they should be shot, a judge has ruled.

A California court panel has decided that the retrial of Phil Spector on a murder charge can proceed.

A Los Angeles hotel is suing Phil Spector, his wife and agent for failing to pay more than $100,000 (€64,000) in accommodation for lawyers and expert witnesses in his murder trial.

Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood once saved a musician's life - after he was allegedly threatened with a gun by music producer Phil Spector.

The judge who presided over Phil Spector's murder trial has rejected a defence motion to disqualify him from the retrial.

Music mogul Phil Spector will not retain his legal team when he's retried for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

Phil Spector is to be tried for a second time for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson.

Authorities in the US are investigating an internet posting that appeared to threaten the judge in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial.

The judge in Phil Spector’s US murder trial has given the deadlocked jury new instructions with several scenarios as to how the record producer might have killed actress Lana Clarkson.

The judge presiding in the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector decided today he would not allow the hung jury to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter.

Jurors in Phil Spector’s murder trial have indicated they believe they are at an impasse, the judge said today after the panel sent a note in its seventh day of deliberations.

Phil Spector's young wife has been told she faces a contempt of court charge if reports she's planning to prematurely speak out about her husband's murder trial are true.

Phil Spector today denied making statements attributed to him criticising the judge and the jury pool in his murder trial.

PROSECUTORS closed their case against music producer Phil Spector with sarcastic attacks on his team’s scientific experts and called on Los Angeles jurors to do justice for the actress found shot to death in his US home.

Prosecutors closed their case against music producer Phil Spector with sarcastic attacks on his team’s scientific experts and called on Los Angeles jurors to do justice for the actress found shot to death in his US home.

Phil Spector’s murder trial is headed toward closing arguments next week with his former defence lawyer gone and a newly appointed man on the music producer’s legal team.

Phil Spector's lawyers have asked a judge to tell US jurors they must find the record producer either guilty or not guilty of murder with no option to find lesser offences such as voluntary or involuntary manslaughter in the death of actress Lana Clarkson.

Phil Spector's often-absent lead lawyer, Bruce Cutler, today announced that he is leaving the US music producer's murder case because of "a difference of opinion between Mr Spector and me on strategy".

The defence has tentatively rested in Phil Spector’s murder trial without calling the music producer to testify on his own behalf.

Phil Spector joined jurors for a tour of his Alhambra, California home on Thursday (09Aug07) to see where actress Lana Clarkson died.

Jurors visited the California mansion of music producer Phil Spector today to get a first-hand look at the place where actress Lana Clarkson died four years ago.

ACTRESS Lana Clarkson may have breathed out blood that spattered on Phil Spector’s jacket with her dying gasp, a forensic pathologist told the music producer’s murder trial.