15: Hollywood Сеlеbrіty tо Convicted KіIIеr - Тhе Extreme Downfall оf Phil Spector

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hey guys! Today's episode is a celebrity one and like all celebrities Phil Spector was rich and powerful which meant he thought he could get away with anything. But of course this was not true, and after committing a terrible act Phil Spector experienced a very extreme downfall - and we're gonna dive into all that today!

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the Criminal Makeup Podcast.
0:14.2	Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today we're
0:18.9	going to be talking about the case of Phil Specter. So for today's case we're actually heading to
0:23.8	Hollywood. Yes, that is right, Hollywood, the land of the rich and famous. So Phil Specter,
0:30.7	have you heard of him? Probably not, but he's actually a huge music producer and I mean huge.
0:38.6	At the time Phil Specter was working mainly back in the 60s and 70s, he was one of the biggest
0:45.2	music producers in the industry. He was working with the likes of the Beatles and Tina Turner and
0:52.0	so many more. So in the music industry Phil Specter is pretty well known. However as well as
0:58.4	being extremely talented Phil Specter was also a very erratic and a bit of a crazy character
1:05.2	and later on in life he became even more well known for all of the wrong reasons. So we're doing
1:10.9	a celebrity case today which is actually our first celebrity case and as usual because Phil was
1:18.0	a celebrity he was very rich and he was very powerful. He thought that he could do whatever he wanted
1:24.8	and get away with it but thankfully it turns out that in the end he couldn't and that is what we
1:29.7	are going to get into today so let's just jump right in. So Phil Specter was born on the 26th of
1:41.6	December 1939 making him a Capricorn and this is our first Capricorn case. Phil Specter was actually
1:49.7	born Harvey Philip Specter but he absolutely hated his first name so he went by his middle name
1:55.6	and then he did later on in life legally change his name to film instead of Harvey. So we're going
2:00.2	to call him Phil but at this point in time he is called Harvey but we're just going to call him Phil
2:04.4	otherwise it's going to get really confusing. So he grew up in the Bronx, New York and his parents
2:09.2	were Benjamin and Bertha Specter. They did immigrate to the US from Ukraine just before Phil was
2:15.8	born. His dad worked as an iron worker and his mother was a seamstress. Now Phil's dad Benjamin
2:22.7	was known to suffer on and off with depression for a lot of his life and tragically when Phil was
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