In an exclusive interview with INSIDE EDITION, Phil Spector's son, Louis, spoke about the bizarre world that he says his father ruled by terror.
"There's two personalities to my father," he said. "There's Harvey Phil Spector, the name he was born with, and then there's a persona, Phil Spector, the man he became."
Louis Spector was just six years old when he and his biological twin brother Gary were adopted and went to live in the Beverly Hills mansion owned by his father.
But just six months later, Spector's wife, the singer Ronnie Spector of the Ronnettes, walked out on him.
"We were Christmas gifts, per se. We were adopted into the family with the intention that we would keep her prolonged into the family. We were meant to be shackles for Ronnie, but it didn't work," Louis said.
Louis said the house became more like a prison that he shared with Gary and his other brother Dante, the natural son of Phil and Ronnie.
He claims the boys weren't even allowed to talk to each other and they were locked into their rooms at night and would try to talk to each other through an air conditioning vent.
From time to time, he says his father would bring a different woman home and the boys were allowed to spend some time with her.
Prosecutors say Phil Spector had a pattern of threatening women with guns, and testimony by four former girlfriends of how he terrorized them brought back painful memories for Louis.
"He always carried a double holster, guns on both sides," he said. "And he always wore his shades, and if he wanted to make a threat, all he had to do is lean over, tilt his shades a little bit and reveal his holsters and say something like: 'Now you don't want to be doing that again.'"
Louis says his father kicked him out of the house when he was just 19. He says curiosity drew him to his father's murder trial. It was the first time they had seen each other in seven years.
"I am a stranger in his eyes as he is in my eyes," he said.