EXCLUSIVE: Phil Spector is pictured sporting a goatee, bald head and hearing aids in his latest mugshot revealed a day before his 80th birthday after spending ten years behind bars and wearing a selection of wigs during his trial

• The 79-year-old fallen music legend was sentenced to 19-years to life in 2009
• He was convicted over the 2003 death of Lana Clarkson in his California home
• Clarkson, 40, suffered a gun-shot to the mouth; her teeth were found scattered
• Spector was known for parading around in wigs during the murder trial
• Now an exclusive new picture of the producer – taken at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton in November – shows him sporting a brand new look 
• Spector looks to be in good spirits and grins ahead of turning 79 on Thursday
• The shamed star has enjoyed a number changes in his appearance over the years

Phil Spector has been pictured sporting a goatee, a bald head and hearing aids as he grins for his latest mugshot after spending ten years behind bars and wearing a selection of wigs during his murder trial. 

The 79-year-old fallen music legend was sentenced to 19-years to life in 2009 over the 2003 slaying of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, in his California mansion’s foyer. 

He was known for parading around in a selection of wigs and elaborate hairstyles during the murder trial that landed him in jail.

Now a new picture of the famed Wall of Sound producer – taken at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton on November 19 and exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com – shows him sporting a new look.    

Spector looks to be in good spirits ahead of turning 79 on Thursday. He is still wearing the hearing aid which appeared in his previous jailhouse picture from 2017.

The shamed star has enjoyed a number of different looks and changes in his appearance over the years. 

Phil Spector has been pictured sporting a goatee, a bald head and hearing aids as he grins for his latest mugshot dated November 2019 after spending ten years behind bars

Spector pictured in 2017, left, and 2013, right. He was convicted over the 2003 death of Lana Clarkson in his California home

Spector was known for parading around in wigs during the murder trial, pictured in 2005

His biographer has suggested that a severe car accident in 1974, which resulted in Spector getting hundreds of stitches in his head and face, led to the wig habit. 

In his mugshot from 2014 he was pictured staring coldly into the camera, with wisps of gray hair hanging around his bald patch. He looked thinner and paler. 

In 2017 he was seen completely bald and wearing the hearing aids.   

It comes after the California mansion where Spector murdered Clarkson went on the market for $5.5million in March of this year.  

Nicknamed the ‘Pyrenees Castle’, the Southern France-styled gated chateau sits on two-and-a-half acres of land in Alhambra, with a panoramic view of the San Gabriel Valley around it.

Lana Clarkson was found dead at Spector’s property on February 3, 2003

Clarkson, who starred in the cult film ‘Barbarian Queen’, was found dead at the property on February 3, 2003.  

Spector had met the struggling actress, 40, at a Hollywood nightclub where she was working as a hostess at the time, and invited her back to his Alhambra mansion. 

She had suffered a single gun-shot to the mouth and her teeth were found scattered over the floor.

Speaking to Esquire in 2003, Spector claimed Clarkson’s death was an ‘accidental suicide’ and that she had tried to ‘kiss the gun’ before it inadvertently went off.

In an emergency call from Spector’s home, the music virtuoso can be heard saying ‘I think I killed someone’.

His driver, Adriano de Souza, says he saw Spector emerge from the back of the home clutching a snub-nosed pistol, shortly after making the call. 

Music producer Phil Spector is pictured wearing a variety of wigs during his murder trial

Spector pictured in September 2007, left, and in February 2003, right. Spector’s initial trial ended in a deadlocked jury. But a second jury in 2009 found him guilty of second degree murder with a sentence of 19 years in prison

Spector pictured in 2013. Speaking to Esquire in 2003, Spector claimed Clarkson’s death was an ‘accidental suicide’ and that she had tried to ‘kiss the gun’ before it inadvertently went off

Spector’s initial trial ended in a deadlocked jury. But a second jury in 2009 found him guilty of second degree murder with a sentence of 19 years in prison.  

In both of his trials jurors were taken to examine the murder scene.

Throughout both hearings Spector’s high-priced defense team had claimed that Clarkson killed herself in a fit of despair over her fading film career.  

But Spector, a man obsessed with guns, liked to dine out on the story that he once pulled a pistol on John Lennon in a recording studio.

And in the end, his violent past caught up with him. 

A procession of women gave evidence about Spector’s drunken attacks, invariably involving guns.

They painted a disturbing picture of an out-of-control maniac, drunk on his own reputation and convinced that he was too famous to be brought to account. 

Threatened and terrorised by Spector, his victims – who were either dating him or longtime friends – never called police. 

The man who was credited with revolutionizing the way pop music was produced in the 1960s was eventually convicted of Clarkson’s murder in 2009. 

Spector pictured in April 2007. The shamed star has enjoyed a number of different looks and changes in his appearance over the years

Spector listens on the last day of the prosecution’s final rebuttal during closing arguments in his retrial on murder charges in March 2009. Famed for pioneering the ‘Wall of Sound’ recording technique in the 1960s, Spector produced hits such as ‘Be My Baby’ for the Ronnettes, and helped to produce the Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ album

This undated image, released in 2009, shows Spector after his arrest. He worked with such acts as the Ramones, John Lennon, and George Harrison. Spector is eligible for parole in 2028. He will be 88 years old

The home where she died was being sold as part of a divorce settlement with Spector’s wife, Rachelle Short, whom he married just before his first trial in 2006.

Spector filed for divorce in April 2016, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’. Short was just 26 when they first tied the knot. 

Famed for pioneering the ‘Wall of Sound’ recording technique in the 1960s, Spector produced hits such as ‘Be My Baby’ for the Ronnettes, and helped to produce the Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ album.

He worked with such acts as the Ramones, John Lennon, and George Harrison. 

Spector is eligible for parole in 2028. He will be 88 years old.

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