""I'm relieved. But I'm not really happy. What's to feel good about?" said close friend and Ramones co-manager Danny Fields. "I still can't believe my friend is gone." Liz Rosenberg, spokeswoman for Madonna and a longtime Stein friend, said it was "hard to rejoice." [Daily News]

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. [NY Times]

Murder is bad (, but damn, her furs makes me mad). Linda Stein used to manage the Ramones and was married to Sire Records founder Seymour Stein (hence the coverage of the murder of this NYC socialite on this blog).

A former schoolteacher with a degree from Columbia, Stein co-managed with Danny Fields a group of Forest Hills upstarts called the Ramones. Here Stein is pictured outside of CBGB in 1976 (fifth from the left) with (from l. to r.) Joey Ramone, Tommy Ramone, Iggy Pop, Seymour Stein, Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Ramone.

Linda Stein was murdered in her apartment on Tuesday night....

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