Here's Who Inherited Phil Spector's Money After He Died

As the U.S. Sun explains, Phil Spector had a series of romantic relationships in his lifetime including three marriages, all of which ended in divorce. His third and final marriage was to singer Rachelle Short. The couple wed in 2006 and split 10 years later. Spector's first marriage was to Annette Merar of the Spectors Three, a Spector-produced music project. 

Spector divorced Merar in 1966, after sparking an affair with another young singer he worked with, Veronica Bennett, better known by her stage name Ronnie Spector, of the Ronettes. Two years after the end of Spector's first marriage, Phil and Ronnie married. The Ronettes singer later described falling in love with the music mogul like a fairytale. Via the U.S. Sun, Ronnie said "I loved him madly and gave my heart and soul to him," in their relationship. 

Still, Ronnie and Spector's time together was troubled, as Ronnie described in her 2015 biography "Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, Or My Life As a Fabulous Ronette," co-written with Vince Waldron. Ronnie says she was emotionally and psychologically abused by the acclaimed producer. She only escaped with the help of her mother, per The U.S. Sun. She was barefoot when she left.

When Spector and Ronnie divorced, she gave up all rights to her music after she claimed Spector threatened to have her killed. Despite all that, Ronnie called it a sad day for her and for music when Spector died. Ronnie died one year later at the age of 78.

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