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True Crimecast

The Barbarian Queen - Lana Clarkson

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Lana Clarkson was a woman of "big dreams and new shoes." A cult-cinema icon known to fans as the Barbarian Queen, Lana was a fixture of the 1980s Los Angeles scene, appearing in everything from Scarface to Three’s Company. At forty years old, she wasn’t a woman in despair; she was a woman in transition, working as a hostess at the House of Blues to fund her own independent production, Lana Unleashed. She was a daughter and a friend who, on her final day of life, was still shopping for the future. Enter reclusive and volatile music producer Phil Spector, a man accused by many of having "demonic" tendencies when mixing alcohol and firearms. Jamie and John center today's story on Lana’s vibrant life and the chilling circumstances of its end. We examine the early morning of February 3, 2003, when Lana was murdered in cold blood. We look at the evidence that painted a picture of a woman who was held captive in a "Pyrenees Castle" she never intended to stay in, and the brave testimony of the women who came before her to reveal Spector’s long-standing pattern of violence. This is an episode dedicated to reclaiming Lana’s memory from the shadow of her killer’s fame and ensuring she is remembered as the hero of her own story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Tovleg Media, igniting conversation.

0:08.1

This is True Crime cast.

0:26.0

Jamie and John here to get your April going.

0:30.8

Yeah, man.

0:31.2

How you doing?

0:32.0

Doing all right.

0:32.6

This is our first full episode of April.

0:34.9

I would like to start out with an apology that John posted on social media that I was

0:40.8

leaving the show as an April Fool's prank.

0:44.6

Yeah, I don't.

0:46.5

I didn't expect anybody to notice or care, but we got a little more pushback than we

0:51.5

wanted.

0:52.2

Yeah, I mean, you can't leave the show anymore.

0:55.4

So, I mean, to be clear, you are never leaving.

0:58.3

But I don't know.

0:59.5

I love April Fool's.

1:00.6

It's one of my favorite days.

1:01.6

But apparently some people didn't pick up on it.

1:04.5

We got several emails.

1:05.6

Our producer Nate got emails.

1:07.6

Yeah.

1:08.4

I'm here, obviously.

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