Spector, who created the "wall of sound" technique, which revolutionised the recording of rock music, is on trial for the 2003 murder of the actress Lana Clarkson at his Los Angeles home. Prosecutors are seeking rulings that they can call the new evidence at the trial.
In court documents filed yesterday, Vince Tannazzo, a retired police officer who was working as a security guard, alleges Spector made numerous disparaging and threatening remarks about women while being escorted out of a holiday party at the home of Joan Rivers in 1995 or 1996.
Mr Tannazzo alleges that Spector, 67, said women "all deserve to die. They all deserve a bullet in their (expletive) head. That's why I got permits for all over.
Wherever I go, I always keep a gun, because these (expletive), they're all no (expletive) good."
Mr Tannazzo alleges a similar episode occurred at the same party the following year.
--MPU BLOCKED BY PAGECLASS--> Larry Paul Fidler, the presiding judge, ruled earlier that four women could testify that Spector threatened them with guns between 1988 and 1995. Judge Fidler said such evidence can be used to show "lack of accident or mistake" in Spector's behaviour the night of Clarkson's death.
The prosecution argued that the alleged gun incidents are relevant to the death of Miss Clarkson as they fit a "recurring, common plan used by Spector to intimidate women into staying with him".
In a separate motion, Devra Robitaille, who worked at Warner Spector Records from 1974 to 1977, is said to have told investigators that Spector allegedly placed a gun against her forehead when she tried to leave the producer's home after a party.
"Spector, who was drunk, made some sort of joke and then said, 'Just so you know, I'll blow your (expletive) head off' or 'If you try to leave, I'll blow your (expletive) brains out,'" according to the court documents.
Miss Robitaille claims she told Spector to "knock that off and put that away," and eventually, she said, he let her leave.
Miss Robitaille alleges that one decade later, when she was working as his part-time assistant, Spector pulled a similar stunt, in which he again put a gun to her head in the foyer of his home after a night of drinking.
Spector, who has worked with the Beatles, Tina Turner and the Ramones, was charged with murder after Lana Clarkson, 40, the cult movie actress, was shot to death at his mock-castle home in February, 2003. The coroner's office called it a homicide, but also noted Clarkson had gunshot residue on both of her hands and may have pulled the trigger herself.
Spector, who wrote such rock classics as "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Be My Baby," and "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling", has pleaded not guilty and has been free on $1 million ( 506,000) bail since his arrest. If convicted, he could face life in prison.
Jury selection for Spector's trial was scheduled to resume April 16.
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