Ex-Ramones Manager Turned Real Estate Agent Found Slain in 5th Ave Home

[Hissyspit]

Source: New York Times

Real Estate Agent Found Slain in 5th Ave. Home

By BRUCE LAMBERT
Published: November 1, 2007
A woman who helped pioneer the punk music scene, influenced the careers of Madonna and the Ramones and went on to become known as a real estate agent to the stars was found bludgeoned to death Tuesday night in her apartment at 965 Fifth Avenue, the police said yesterday.

Linda S. Stein on the closing night of the club CBGB in October 2006.
The victim, Linda S. Stein, 62, was found shortly before 10:30 p.m. by her daughter Mandy and a friend, who called 911. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The building, at the corner of 78th Street, has the security of doormen, elevator operators, and surveillance cameras mounted on the sidewalk canopy and in the lobby, but a reporter found an unlocked service door on the side street. There were no signs of forced entry at the apartment, nor did anything appear to be missing, investigators said.

Ms. Stein’s body was found face down in the living room in a pool of blood, the police said. She was wearing a sweatshirt with a hood, which was pulled over her head. Investigators at first believed the bleeding could have resulted from a fall, but when the hood was pulled back, a severe skull injury was exposed. Yesterday, the medical examiner’s office ruled the death a homicide.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/nyregion/01murder.html?em&ex=1194062400&en=adcc92a1cb8fec11&ei=5087%0A

[flamingyouth]

1. Wow.

That's horrible. :(

[quispquake]

2. Holy Shit!!!

Her husband was Seymour Stein who ran Sire records...that's horrible news...

[shenmue]

3. Oh my God.

:cry:

This is horrible. Rest in peace.

[flyarm]

4. there is a movie right now on HBO or Showtime that is dedicated to Johnny Ramone

it is kind of a MKULTRA type film with Nicholas Cage ..and i watched it a couple days ago and was surprised to see it was dedicated to Johnny Ramone..so i looked him up..two days ago..so this is shocking to me..

sorry i can't think of the name of the film..

fly

[Javaman]

6. Man, I miss the Ramones. nt

[Dr Fate]

10. Me too. I wish that brand of fun, teen-age rock & roll would come back.

Tired of emos and "heavy" bull shit. Tired of rap too- it used to be cool.

Give me Chuck Berry, Beach Boys, T-Rex, Ramones & Heartbreakers style Rock & Roll anyday...

[goclark]

5. What did she know and when did she know it?

Something is strange.

[Scurrilous]

7. Assistant Arrested in Killing of Real Estate Agent

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"A Manhattan personal assistant fatally bludgeoned her boss, the well-connected real-estate agent Linda Stein, in the woman’s opulent Fifth Avenue apartment because Ms. Stein "just kept yelling at her," a law enforcement official said today. The assistant was arrested this morning.

Officials said the assistant, Natavia Lowery, 26, of Brooklyn, made statements implicating herself in the Oct. 30 killing of Ms. Stein after detectives interviewed her and re-interviewed her in recent days. Criminal charges from the Manhattan district attorney’s office are pending. Ms. Lowery was being held at the Seventh Precinct on the Lower East Side.

According to the woman’s account, her tempestuous relationship with Ms. Stein — a punk-rock pioneer and real estate agent who worked with numerous celebrities — built from animosity to violence, the official said.

"It was that Linda just kept yelling at her, over everything" the official said. "They fought. It was like a continuous thing, like a buildup."

http://nytimes.com/2007/11/09/nyregion/09cnd-stein.html?em&ex=1194757200&en=2a98fbe588b6c9e4&ei=5087%0A

[Theres-a]

8. Thanks for the followup

Bludgeoned,eh? That's angry.Sad stuff.

[Dr Fate]

9. Wow-There must be a "Ramones curse."

3 Ramones dead, (4 if we include Connie Ramone) & now Linda.