Fabled pop impresario Phil Spector reportedly resisted arrest after cops discovered the lifeless body of B-movie femme fatale Lana Clarkson sprawled in a pool of blood in the foyer of his suburban Los Angeles mansion early Monday.
Police were forced to subdue Spector, 62, who was standing in the entryway of his hilltop home when they arrived shortly after the 5 a.m. shooting, a law-enforcement source told The Los Angeles Times.
Clarkson, 40, had been felled by a single gunshot to the head, sources said.
No one else was in the 36-room mansion at the time, according to police.
Just what cops did to restrain the slightly built, 5-foot-7 music legend was not disclosed.
But after being booked for first-degree murder, Spector was taken to a hospital where he was under observation for two hours before being released on $1 million bail.
Investigators believe Spector and Clarkson met for the first time early Monday at House of Blues, an upscale West Hollywood nightclub where the struggling cult-film actress had recently started working as a VIP-room hostess.
Spector arrived at the club at around 2 a.m. At 3 a.m., staffers saw the two leave in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz.