LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Two more women told Phil Spector’s murder trial Wednesday how the legendary music producer threatened them with guns in separate incidents, years before he allegedly shot dead a B-movie actress.

The witnesses told Los Angeles Superior Court how Spector had flown into a gun-toting rage as they tried to leave his presence, in one case placing a pistol inches from an ex-girlfriend’s forehead and threatening to kill her.

Melissa Grosvenor said a drunk Spector had undergone a dramatic transformation after she had asked to leave his Pasadena mansion in 1992 after an evening dinner date.

He left the room briefly and returned wearing a shoulder holster and brandishing a handgun, Grosvenor said.

“He walked right up to me and put the gun right up to my face and said ‘If you try to leave, I’m going to kill you,’” Grosvenor said.

“I was shocked, I just started crying. There was no doubt in my mind he was going to kill me if I tried to leave.”

Grosvenor said the incident came towards the end of a lengthy platonic relationship with Spector, who she had met in 1991 while working as a waitress in New York.

Grosvenor’s evidence came after testimony earlier Wednesday from Stephanie Jennings, a rock music photographer, who said Spector pulled a handgun on her in an incident at a New York hotel in 1995.

Jennings and Grosvenor are the latest women to testify that Spector threatened them with firearms since his trial for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson got underway last month.

Two other women have already testified that Spector threatened them with guns in similar circumstances.

Prosecutors have alleged that Spector, 67, has a “rich history” of violent rages against women involving guns that culminated with the murder of Clarkson in the foyer of his castle-like mansion in Los Angeles.

Jennings told Wednesday’s hearing she had struck up a casual relationship with Spector in 1994 when she met him at a New York restaurant.

The following year he invited the Philadelphia-based freelance music photographer to attend a star-studded awards ceremony in New York, offering to pay for her room in Manhattan’s five-star Carlyle Hotel.

Jennings said during a party after the awards show she noticed Spector became a “little drunk” and was “extremely obnoxious, loud and insulting.”

She returned to her room at the hotel and was awoken by a knock on the door from Spector’s bodyguard demanding she go to his suite. When she refused, Spector returned in person.

“He was drunk and demanded that I should go to his room,” Jennings said. “We started arguing and he slapped me and pushed me.”

When Jennings shoved the producer into a bath-tub he left the room, and returned shortly afterwards holding a gun.

“He put a chair against the door and told me I was not going anywhere,” Jennings said. “I thought I was about to be shot.”

Jennings said she was able to phone for police because Spector believed she was calling her mother. She eventually checked out of the hotel and returned to Philadelphia without pressing charges.

Although she stayed in telephone contact with Spector, she broke off relations with him the following year when she stood him up as his date for an awards show. Spector responded by leaving “several threatening phone messages.”

“They were horrible,” Jennings said. “They were threatening, calling me names I’ve never been called before.”

Spector, the reclusive musical genius who pioneered the 1960s “Wall of Sound” recording technique, denies shooting and killing 40-year-old Clarkson just hours after meeting her at a Hollywood nightclub.

Famed for his work with The Beatles, Tina Turner, The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes and The Ramones, Spector faces 15 years to life in prison if he is convicted of second-degree murder.