GENERAL: Spector's Long Legal Battles May Be Sapping His Fortune

The producer collects royalties from dozens of pop hits. But expenses from two criminal trials appear to be depleting his fortune. He's also facing a wrongful-death suit by Lana Clarkson's mother. When Phil Spector was booked for murder in 2003, he was a jet-setting millionaire who stayed in luxury hotel suites, left $450 tips on $13 bar bills and paid cash for a 30-room mansion. Six years later, with the case against him in the hands of a jury for a second time, the famed music producer stil...

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