LOS ANGELES – Troubled music man Phil Spector has been on a cocktail of psychotropic drugs for eight years – but might have been off his meds the day he allegedly murdered a B-movie star, the pint-sized genius said in a newly released deposition.
“Prozac, Neurontin, Klonopin. There’s a total of five, so I’m missing two,” Spector said of his regular five-drug cocktail. “I take them daily.”
Spector is set to go on trial in April for the Feb. 3, 2003, slaying of leggy blond bombshell Lana Clarkson, star of the “Barbarian Queen” movies.
As the “Wall of Sound” legend fights for his life in criminal court, he’s also pressing a civil lawsuit against celebrity defense lawyer Robert Shapiro, his former mouthpiece. Spector claims Shapiro bilked him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Spector gave the deposition in the Shapiro case this past July, and criminal defense lawyers believed that testimony would be sealed. But the judge in Spector’s criminal trial ruled that prosecutors could see the deposition and possibly use the music man’s words against him. Asked when he last took his medication before Alhambra, Calif., cops busted him just after Clarkson’s killing, Spector said: “A day before, probably be about a day and a half before or two days before.”
But later in the deposition released Friday, Spector speculated he might have taken his medication within 24 hours before Clarkson’s murder.