In 1998, Spector was ordered to pay The Ronettes $2.6 million in back royalties. All the money their songs made from movies, commercials and TV shows went to Spector, until a judge agreed the group should be paid. In 2002, the ruling was overturned.
They opened for The Rolling Stones on their first US tour in 1964 and for The Beatles on their 1965 US tour.
In Ronnie Spector's 1990 autobiography, she claims that Phil would make her watch Citizen Kane, a movie about a singer whose husband makes her famous, to remind her that she would be nothing without him.
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