US:Pressing her index finger to her cheek to mimic a gun barrel, a former assistant to Phil Spector testified the famous music producer and murder defendant threatened to shoot her in 1989.
"He put it all over me," Dianne Ogden, on the verge of tears, said as she moved her finger from her right cheek to her nose to her forehead.
Spector, she said on Monday, ordered her to a bedroom of his home, then in Pasadena, because, Ms Ogden said, "he wanted to rape me".
Spector, the producer of records for The Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, is charged with murdering actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot in the mouth at his Alhambra mansion on February 3rd, 2003. He has pleaded not guilty and is free on $1 million bail.
On cross-examination, defence lawyer Bruce Cutler exploded at Ms Ogden, accusing her of adding details she had not told investigators and of shaping her account after talking to police. "You formed an opinion," he barked.
Mr Cutler's outbursts prompted a scolding from Judge Larry Paul Fidler. "You will not point and yell at witnesses in my courtroom - ever!" Judge Fidler said, glaring at Mr Cutler.
An instant after he agreed not to do so, Mr Cutler again shouted, "you formed an opinion", at Ms Ogden and pounded his fist on the table.
Judge Fidler told jurors to disregard Mr Cutler.
Ms Ogden, who said she had been a friend and part-time assistant to Mr Spector, is the second woman to testify that the music legend threatened her with a gun when she tried to leave his home.
Prosecutors are expected to call at least two other women to testify they also were held at gunpoint when they rejected Spector's advances, bolstering the district attorney's theory that he followed a pattern of luring women to his home, drinking, then pulling guns on them when they tried to leave, the blueprint they say for Ms Clarkson's death.
The trial resumes today.