Spector's young wife talks about life without him
Rachelle Spector will turn 29 next week, a pretty woman living alone in a 35-room Pyrenees-style castle while the lord of the manor music producer Phil Spector sits in prison.
Her story might seem the subject of a perverse fairy tale if it was not part of one of the strangest true crime sagas in show business.
Through two trials in which she was ordered to stay mum, Spector's wife has remained an enigma. She sat down this week for an interview with The Associated Press about her past, her life with the aging music legend and her new role at the helm of his financial empire while pressing an appeal she hopes will free him.
Her home is the "castle," a landmark edifice towering over the east Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra. She sat in the living room, a few feet from the foyer where actress Lana Clarkson met a bloody death six years ago. Rachelle married Spector after he was charged with second-degree murder in Clarkson's death.
Rachelle Spector's motives have been questioned by some. But she says says it was all about love, not money, and expressed resentment toward those who call him unattractive.
"I find him very attractive and cute. I see him as this little boy, my best friend, the person I wake up to with his head on the pillow next to mine," she said.
Her remarks echo those of several women who testified about falling in love with the eccentric music man. However, those women told how they were later threatened with guns when they tried to leave him. Rachelle says she has never seen him threatening.
She describes him as "incredibly funny, witty and smart. A very caring person."
Anyone who watched Spector's two trials remembers Rachelle, the woman in stiletto heels guiding him into the courtroom, the frail defendant looking like he might fall over without her support.
For his last day in court, she said she brought him a suit and fixed his hair. "I wanted him to look nice for the sentencing."
"I'm all by myself now," she said. "We are each other's family. We're all that we have. It's so sad."
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