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But you reap what you sow.' How so? 'I'm free, you know? He's stuck in a cell. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Annette’s. Annette has 1 job listed on their profile.

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I'm not a judge, and, if he's innocent, I don't want him to suffer. View Annette Williams’ profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. What would she do if she saw him now? 'I'd give him a hug. 'I have to laugh, even though his case is big, dark and horrible, because when he had to pay a million dollars to get out of jail on bail I thought, I must be the first black woman who, from doing those songs as a teenager, has paid for a white man to get out of prison.' She cackles wildly. She couldn't fight legally because she couldn't afford it. At 19, when LaLa had two small children, she says she would 'call up his secretary to ask for the royalty cheques we'd been promised' and just be 'fluffed off'. She's referring to the millions of dollars' worth of royalties LaLa and the rest of the Crystals say they are owed by Spector. Yes, he's a genius, but he's a thief, too.' And that was just the beginning.' Beginning of what? 'Well, he's been stealing from me, from us, since then. He'd pull in different singers – including Cher – to do background vocals, and forgot about all the other young girls who had got him the praise he was now getting. I'd be flown out to LA by myself, as a teenager, to record my vocals. Things turned sour when Spector relocated to Los Angeles. I should have seen that as a warning: a man who doesn't respect his mother doesn't respect women.' 'She'd sit on this crate holding a sandwich for Phil,' she recalls, 'and he just wouldn't let her in. But I was a teenager, and easily impressed.' She wasn't so impressed, though, when he left his mother, Bertha, sitting outside the studio every day. 'He was a sweetheart to me then,' she drawls. LaLa, now 64, looks back fondly at the early years of recording with Spector in New York.