Fallen music legend PHIL SPECTOR is set to move to a less secure prison – but fears he will catch Valley Fever and die there.
The pioneering producer has been held at California’s maximum security Corcoran Prison since June (09) after he was convicted of murdering nightclub hostess Lana Clarkson in April.
Now officials plan to transfer the ailing musician to the “minimum-medium” security Pleasant Valley jail in Coalinga, California – but he fears he is being sent there to die.
The facility is in an area prone to Valley Fever – a soil fungus that releases potentially deadly spores into the air – and 16 inmates have died from the disease in the last four years.
Spector’s wife Rachelle tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, “They are sending Phil there to die. He is scared to death. When I saw him on Saturday, he was shaking… He’s 70 years old and 130 pounds… We are trying to appeal over this, but he’s been told he has no time. He’s already been given his bus pass out of Corcoran.”