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♪ after all this time tonight on "nightline." she was a beauty queen, he a trusted doctor. together they had eight children. when she died in the family bathtub their daughters became suspicious. tonight he is charged with murder and his fate now in the jury's hands. >> tori spelling facing tough times in beverly hills. the 90210 star dishing on everything from money woes to the sex tape that fell into the hand of a former friendch tonight the hollywood mom is opening up. >> and the mega stars make the chart toppers, but the bands can't stop making the hits their own. ♪ i'm up all night to get some

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as to count two, obstruction of justice, guilty. >> reporter: the u.s. doctor had been charged with murdering his wife in the bathtub of their suburban home. the star witnesses, macneill's own daughters. who were single handedly responsible for convincing prosecutors to bring charges against their father. >> ever since the day my mom died, i was concerned that my father killed her. and i've been fighting to get justice for this case ever since then. >> reporter: but the defense maintains michelle macneill died of a heart condition. as the medical examiner initially ruled. >> she certified the cause of death as being due to hypertension, cardiovascular disease. >> reporter: and the prosecution can't prove michelle was murdered at all. >> there is not evidence in this case that points to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. >> reporter: now a jury of five men and three women deciding

there was proof beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt. the story jurors heard from prosecutors over the course of the 14-day trial was almost too strange to believe. it began on an april morning in 2007 in this gated community south of salt lake city, utah. a distraught-sounding martin macneill called 911. >> my wife has fall in in the bathtub. >> is she conscious? >> she is not. >> reporter: when police showed up, macneill said she passed out while preparing the tub. and they soon ruled it an accident. his daughters were suspicious and eventually became convinced their father had planned the whole thing persuading michelle, a former beauty queen, to get a facelift with only one real goal in mind -- to overmedicate her during recovery and ultimately kill her. >> my mom was hesitant to get the surgery. she was talking to my dad saying that maybe we should delay the surgery.

he got really angry at my mom and said, no, you cannot do that, if you don't have the surgery now you're not getting it. >> reporter: daughter alexis kept close tabs on her mom and the drugs she was taking. >> the valium at 12:00 a.m. the fenergen at 1:30 a.m. then gave her two percocets at 1:30 a.m. and then one ambien at 1:30 a.m. >> alction sister macneill is the most important witness for the prosecution. because she monitored the drugs her mother was taking and kept a logbook. she was suspicious of her father because she found her mother overmedicated the first day she was home. and alexis went back to school. the next day her mother was dead. >> reporter: it was only years later that they were able to convince authorities to take another look at their mother's death. and once they did, they learned a lot more about macneill and his seemingly bizarre behavior. starting with the 911 call where

macneill either hung up on the dispatcher or was disconnected twice and provided the wrong address. >> okay, is she conscious? >> reporter: this meant lost precious minutes in the fight to save michelle's life. and maybe most troubling? he said he couldn't remove his dying wife from the bathtub alone. >> did you get her out of the water? >> i can't. i let the water out. >> reporter: next-door neighbor doug daniels was called over when macneill claimed he needed a man's help to move the body. >> i definitely could have got her out of the tub myself. >> reporter: he testified that macneill kept stopping cpr. >> he'd throw his hands in the air, i think twice. he would say, why? why would you do this? all because of a stupid surgery! >> the first responders said macneill was loud and distracting. >> he was so disruptive to the crew that, as the fire chief, i removed him from the actual patient care scene. >> reporter: shortly after that, macneill allegedly asked his son's girlfriend to dispose

of the drugs michelle had been taking. >> he asked you to flush the pills down the toilet? >> yes. >> did you do that? >> yes. >> did that request seem strange to you? >> at the time, it did seem strange, yes. >> reporter: drugs that her plastic surgeon had not even wanted to prescribe. >> that was because martin indicated to me he was very concerned about his wife. she didn't handle pain well. >> if you'll come forward -- >> reporter: maybe most suspicious of all, it turned out married martin macneill had a girlfriend. >> my name is gypsy willis. >> reporter: gypsy willis, who macneill had met online a year and a half before his wife's death, admitted under oath that she and macneill had been having an affair. >> did the relationship become sexual? >> it did. >> and when was that? >> i think january of 2006. >> and how often were the two of you having sexual relations? >> we would see each other a couple times a month. >> reporter: according to the prosecution, the pair exchanged calls on the day of michelle's death. and 15 texts on the day of her

funeral. a funeral gypsy attended. >> you attended the funeral you said? >> i did. >> did you speak to the defendant at the funeral? >> i spoke to him briefly after and just said, i hope you're all right, and if there's anything i can do, please let me know. >> i'm so sorry for your loss -- >> reporter: where she and martin macneill pretended to meet for the first time. >> my father said, oh, thank you. what's your name, i'm sorry? oh. she said oh, my name is jillian. >> reporter: what got his daughters really suspicious? shortly after michelle's death he moved gypsy into his home and announced she would now be the family's new nanny. >> i expected her to be focused on the children. i expected her to -- do things related to that. to -- to cook, or clean, or take care of the children. >> what did you see her doing? >> my dad was cooking.

she was sitting there staring at my dad. >> reporter: macneill and gypsy were convicted in 2009 for stealing the identity of, get this, one of the macneills' own adopted daughters in an effort to wipe out gypsy's debt. and while behind bars, numerous inmates claimed macneill made incriminating statements. >> he said he gave her oxy and sleeping pills and got her to get in the bathtub. >> reporter: one even testified that he confessed to the murder. >> he said, i'm getting away with murdering my wife. >> reporter: all along, the defense has argued while macneill may be an unsavory character, he's no murderer. >> we probably shouldn't let emotions cloud our judgment. >> does the defense intend to call witnesses? >> reporter: the defense presented its case in a day with three witnesses offering what they say is an alibi. what do you make of the defense alibi claim? >> the defense tried to show that martin macneill was not at the house the morning that his wife died.

>> he couldn't have done it? >> that he absolutely couldn't have done it. but there's a big hole there that they couldn't account for. >> would you come forward. >> reporter: maybe their most important witness tried to explain why macneill might not have been able to lift his wife from the tub. >> you can't get directly close to the tub to lift out. >> reporter: but the defense main argument, that the prosecution did not prove michelle was murdered. so you're saying there's a chance that this jury's going to say, we think he wanted it to happen, we think that he certainly could have done it. but we're not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that she died at his hands. >> yes. that's precisely what i'm saying. if the jury acquits him they're probably thinking, he probably did it. but it's just not enough. i don't want to send this man to prison for murder. i'm just not absolutely convinced. >> reporter: but that wasn't the

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when you hear the name tori spelling you may think of the show 90210. helped her into a boldfaced name. and the larger than lifestyle has certainly been a part of spelling's offscreen persona as well. but now she is coming clean about a darker side, sex tapes and financial hard ship. she opens up to abc's cecelia vega about her 9021-woes. >> reporter: we have seen her as done na mart donna martin, seen her as a reality star, we have never seen tori spelling quite like this. >> can we talk about your husband's vasectomy? >> everyone else has. we might as well. from her husband any most private of parts to her four children, there is nothing off limits in her new book "spelling it like it is."

remember the headlines about how she lost all that baby weight. turns out it wasn't from exercise. >> did i stop eating, no? i in no way, shape or form did anything that was completely unhealthy. basically, jokingly, i would say, stopped eating diet. >> reporter: she writes how unreal reality tv is. >> you have become the reality tv whistle blower? are you going to get in trouble for that? >> i'm that girl. >> reporter: this scene in her show, torrie and dean home sweet hollywood was a fake, a re-enactment. >> it doesn't negate everything we have done for years being a real family on tv. there are still real moments. we want to share that. there are fine tuned moments. >> reporter: a real family on tv which sometimes brought her criticism for putting her kids on camera, toddler tantrums. a juicy detail that hasn't gone public until now. a 2009, tori and dean sex tape,

that a former friend unsuccessfully tried to sell. drama she writes about for the first time. dean and i had a romantic valentine night. dean said we should tape ourselves having sex. afterward i checked my angles. they were good. i allowed him to keep it. if there is a code where celebrities don't dish about other celebrities, tori doesn't subscribe to it. >> do i want to go to the rachel zoe section? i was a reality star watching a reality star, where she may have staged the scenario. the scene, she is going into labor doing makeup and hair. were people available to come film it going into labor. >> reporter: how about the kardashians, what do you see when you watch the show? >> a lot of entertainment. >> reporter: is it real? >> the day she met the crafting idol. tori said the diva was less than warm and fuzzy. martha stewart with her cold,

relentless perfection is a dying breed. ouch. she is her own empire. not only authoring books and branding herself on reality tv. >> i wanted the store. >> reporter: through sales. this is her store. where she sells house wares she collects from her trips to thrift stores and garage sales. through it all she still makes team to be mom. but despite the businesses and her childhood in that famous zip code, this daughter of hollywood royalty says she no longer can afford to live a life of luxury. >> according to google you are worth $15 million. i want to set the record straight. i didn't have $1 million. that is shocking to a lot of people. >> probably. >> reporter: set the record straight, are you broke? >> i am not broke, no. >> reporter: her father, aaron spelling, died seven years ago, tori reportedly inherited less than $1 million of the family fortune. did you think you would get more? >> you know, i lost my father, i lost my hero. did i think i would get more?

yes. >> reporter: she admits bad spending habits mean sheep has had to scale back. you have a masseuse, live in housekeeper, summer home, room service, the ritz. did that get you in trouble? >> hear them lumped together it is hard to hear it. >> reporter: after tori and her husband, dean mcdermott had baby four last year. financial advisers broke the news there wasn't enough money for a vasectomy. >> my poor husband. i literally the other night sitting in bed talking about it. he said this is so hard. like people are talking about my -- man parts. >> reporter: you were told by your financial manager, not to do it, it was too expensive. >> not that we couldn't completely afford it. but they were saying it right now, this isn't a good spend. you can't afford it within the context of our financial situation. >> reporter: today tori says the one thing she has been running from her entire life she embraces.

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