Music and Murder: Lana Clarkson and Phil Spector

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

When a beautiful actress accompanies a legendary music producer home, a fatal tragedy occurs. The survivor has one story while witnesses and eventually the state of California have a different one.

1. “Lana Clarkson (1962-2003) - Find a Grave Memorial.” Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7146900/lana-clarkson. Accessed 1 July 2025.

2. “Phil Spector Slams Prosecutor at Hearing.” TODAY.Com, TODAY, 7 May 2004, https://www.today.com/popculture/phil-spector-slams-prosecutor-hearing-wbna4927208.

3. Smith, Carlton. Reckless. Macmillan + ORM, 2007.

4. Spector. 2022.

5. The Telegraph, 1 Feb. 2003.

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0:00.0	All right, Jesse, excited to be listening again.
0:02.9	What story do you have for us today?
0:04.6	When a beautiful actress accompanies a legendary music producer home,
0:09.0	a fatal tragedy occurs.
0:11.2	The Survivor has one story,
0:12.9	while witnesses and eventually the state of California have another one.
0:17.7	I'm Andy Cassette, and I'm Jesse Prey, and this Hi, Jesse. Welcome back everyone to Love Murder, a podcast about trauma, drama, and love gone fatally wrong. You can find Love Murder
0:56.1	on TikTok and Instagram at Love Murder Pod and on Facebook by searching Love Murder Podcast.
1:01.2	If you are enjoying this show, pretty please, love slash murder, a five-star rating on your podcast app,
1:07.2	subscribe, and maybe write us a nice little review to help other people discover the show.
1:13.5	Also, if you're interested in supporting the show more directly, head on over to patreon.com
1:18.1	slash lovemurterpod, where you can learn all about the different tiers of support.
1:22.3	And we are recording these like two days apart.
1:26.0	Yes.
1:26.4	So we don't have any more patrons, but we are getting ahead
1:29.5	because I am coming out to California. We are going to do a recording, I think the one after this one
1:36.7	at Podcast One Studio together. Yeah, which is going to be so fun. Yeah, and I think we're going to
1:42.4	video that one possibly.
1:52.3	So let's get into the episode. Don't you know who I am is a question just about every person who works in hospitality dreads. Whether it comes from a legitimate celebrity or, God forbid,
2:00.1	a so-called friend of the owner.
2:02.5	Oh, no. We've all been there. It's always dripping in condescension and entitlement.
2:09.7	But Lana Clarkson, a gorgeous six-foot-tall blonde, had dealt with way worse in her many, many
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