Actress Lana Clarkson’s Heartbreaking Last Hours And The Real Story Of Her Murder

Victoria Velkova
7 min readApr 22, 2024

Enter the real-life account of Lana Clarkson’s death due to the actions of music producer Phil Spector and the heated trial that followed.

CONTENT WARNING! The following story contains information, which some readers may find disturbing.

Actress Lana Clarkson, well known for her work in Barbarian Queen and other B-movies, originally had ambitions to succeed in Hollywood. But on February 3, 2003, these hopes tragically came to an end. Afterwards, renowned record producer Phil Spector brutally killed Lana Clarkson.

Police quickly discovered Clarkson, who was just 40 years old at the time, dead at Spector’s house in Alhambra, California, from a gunshot wound to the mouth. Yet, it was not 62-year-old Spector who called the police. Instead, Spector’s driver made the 911 call.

Spector first claimed that the weapon had discharged “accidentally” after the cops showed up. Later he said that Clarkson committed suicide at home. Yet it quickly became apparent that he was lying.

This is the terrible tale of Lana Clarkson’s murder and the assassin who attempted to exploit his status and wealth to escape punishment.

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