Linda "Ramones" Stein's personal assistant has been arrested, charges pending in Stein's murder

I used to work for True Detective magazine, and we would have killed for a story like this. So to speak. :hide:


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/nyregion/09cnd-stein.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Assistant Arrested in Killing of Real Estate Agent
By AL BAKER and SEWELL CHAN

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.”

Another official, Paul J. Browne, who is the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said that investigators followed a dual path of combing for physical evidence while conducting dozens of interviews with Ms. Stein’s friends, acquaintances and family members.

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"I hope she was at least polite and gave her two weeks notice."

This is like a Colombo episode ,complete with a psychotic break of the pretty young thing.

Life imitates art.

can happen when employers don't treat their employees with respect.

This is what can happen if you don't quit a job where your employer is abusive to you.

They both f*ck*d up.:evilfrown:

...as a response to an abusive boss? You say they "both fucked up"? So you're blaming a murder victim for her own death because she yelled too much? Give me a fucking break.

Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? Of course I'm not advocating murder.

What I meant is that we hear of people going off on abusive employers a lot. Enough so that an employer ought to know better that to push an employee to that point. And the people who keep working for abusive employers ought to find a new job with a better employer. They did both f*ck up.

...That the murder victim abused her employee is assuming facts not in evidence. For starters.

That said, I doubt the employer would have hired the employee in this case if she'd known that it would lead to her murder. I mean, COME ON! As you say: "What I meant is that we hear of people going off on abusive employers a lot. Enough so that an employer ought to know better that to push an employee to that point." So it's somehow now okay to respond with physical violence to an abusive employer? Sorry. That's never okay, at least in white, middle-class 21st century America. You call the cops on your abusive employer, and/or a lawyer. You don't bludgeon them to death. The kind of person who responds that way to getting yelled at is a psychopath or a sociopath and needs to be taken out of circulation via the justice system.

Linda Stein may have "fucked up" as a boss. She certainly didn't bludgeon anyone to death. The crimes are not equal.

You have read way too much into what I posted.

..I was taking your words purely at face value. Any exaggeration is on you, and for a very simple reason: You don't chose your words carefully, and you do not think through an idea before you put it forth. I'm not saying you *always* are neglectful in this fashion, but you did it in your initial comments about Linda Stein's murder. You seem like an intelligent and thoughtful person. The words we choose to use matter.

to be a troll, go to another subject. GD would love you over there.

But as I'm always reminding white supremacists, it turns out that whites are merely human, like everyone else. Of the many incidents fitting this particular pattern -- that is, where someone feels provoked to rage and snaps, and reacts violently -- whites commit their share.


As it happens, "Westegg", Linda Stein was notorious -- both for her drunkeness, and for her abusiveness. When the news hit that she had been murdered, even her friends admitted that more than a few people would have been tempted to knock her off.

It's no excuse for murder but I'm not surprised that someone would snap like that after being incessantly treated like shit.

I'd also like to add that I've had it up to here with that 'type A' abusive behavior that's presented as the norm via today's reality television; "Flip this House', 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', 'The Apprentice'. Basically, these shows are telling the public that to be a success you have to literally treat people like dog shit to get to the top. If that's the case, I've never been prouder in being an underachiever because it seems to me that the price of "success" isn't worth the effort to begin with.

Kust kidding! :hi:

"The Devil Wears Prada" was modeled on Ms. Stein. Your instincts are right on.

I also heard that Meryl Streep did her very own rendition of the character. At any rate - people like that make my stomach turn.

Too bad Ms. Stein incited someone to murder her. Having an anvil spontaneously fall on her head ala Wile E. Coyote would have been a much more fitting end.

:blush:

Stein was the model for the real estate woman in "Wall Street", the Oliver Stone movie.

She worked for her for four months? Quit and get a new job. Geez. :yoiks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/09/nyregion/09cnd-stein.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin


A Manhattan personal assistant has told investigators that she fatally bludgeoned her boss, the well-connected real estate agent Linda Stein, in the woman’s opulent Fifth Avenue apartment because Ms. Stein swore at her, waved a stick at her and blew marijuana smoke into her face, the police said today.

The assistant, Natavia Lowery, 26, of Brooklyn, was arrested this morning. At an afternoon news conference, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Ms. Lowery had told the police that she struck Ms. Stein six or seven times on Oct. 30 with a four-pound exercise stick.

Mr. Kelly said that in Ms. Lowery’s account, Ms. Stein had used “profanity and derogatory language” and refused to stop blowing smoke at her even though the smoke was making her sick. Ms. Lowery had worked for Ms. Stein for about four months, but said Ms. Stein had not verbally abused her until the day of the killing.

Ms. Lowery, who was held at the Seventh Precinct on the Lower East Side, was to be charged by the Manhattan district attorney’s office this evening.

The police said that investigators followed a dual path in their investigation, combing for physical evidence while conducting dozens of interviews with Ms. Stein’s friends, acquaintances and family members.

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a beating of that severity is personal.