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Updated Aug. 2, 2007, 10:52 a.m. ET
Phil Spector's daughter describes their relationship as close, loving


LOS ANGELES — Her testimony lasted just two minutes, but the woman likely to be the final witness for Phil Spector's defense presented jurors Wednesday with a side of the music legend unheard of in the previous four months of his murder trial — that of a responsible, devoted father.

Nicole Spector, the producer's only living biological child, was called to testify to a minor point — that her father is right-handed. But the defense capitalized on her brief appearance at Spector's trial to combat a parade of prosecution witnesses who have portrayed the defendant as deeply eccentric at best, and at worst, a misogynist who enjoys threatening women with guns when he is drunk.

His daughter, 24, described Spector as a doting, involved father and their relationship as wholesome as a family sitcom. Her comments arose from a series of questions a defense attorney asked, which were ostensibly to establish that she knew her father well enough to testify about his dominant hand. (VIDEO)

The defense contends his right-handedness makes it unlikely that he shot actress Lana Clarkson because her blood was found primarily on the left side of his jacket.

Dressed in a navy suit and blue suede pumps, Nicole Spector told jurors that she lived in her father's house until she was 8 years old. They maintained a close relationship after she and her mother, former personal assistant Janice Savala, moved out.

She said Spector picked her up every day from high school and delivered her to her mother's house, where the three dined together.

"My mother would cook and we would eat dinner and we'd watch 'All in The Family,'" she said with a smile.

Prosecutors objected repeatedly to her testimony as irrelevant.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler, however, allowed the questions, saying jurors could hear the basis for her testimony about his right-handedness.

"Did he eat with his right hand?" asked defense attorney Linda Kenney-Baden.

"Yes," Nicole Spector replied.

"Are his guitars right-handed?" the lawyer continued.

"Yes," she answered.

When Kenney-Baden asked Spector if her father played the piano with his right hand, she hesitated.

"I have never seen him play the piano, so no," she replied.

She was not asked to elaborate.


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