1966 When comedian Lenny Bruce dies of an overdose, a Los Angeles Police Department detective contacts one of Spector's friends, offering to sell some black market postmortem photographs of Bruce with a needle protruding from his arm. Though the friend

1966
When comedian Lenny Bruce dies of an overdose, a Los Angeles Police Department detective contacts one of Spector's friends, offering to sell some black market postmortem photographs of Bruce with a needle protruding from his arm. Though the friend refuses to buy the images, Spector apparently leaps at the opportunity, shelling out $5,000 for the negatives.

1968

Spector marries his head-turning second wife, singer Ronnie Bennett of The Ronettes, the girl band he popularized in the early '60s. But when he isn't busy controlling her career he spends his days controlling her. A sort of bouffant-era Rapunzel, the former Mrs. Spector later describes having been a virtual prisoner in the producer's mansion, around which he is said to have built walls in order to keep his significant other significantly trapped. He is also purported to lead his mother-in-law to his basement where he keeps a glass coffin, telling her that if his wife ever leaves him he will kill her and exhibit her corpse there á la Snow White.

Beyond the death threats, Spector also makes sure his bride is never free of his influence. Apparently, he insists that she place a life-sized inflatable dummy replica of himself in the passenger seat of her car when she leaves the house. He has allegedly planned it out right down to the cigarette he places in its mouth and the angle of the hat. Spector's goal is to prevent other men from picking up on her. The couple—big surprise—divorces four years later. Recently, in a statement to the press, Spector's ex-wife stated: "I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time I was going to die there."