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PA who murdered Ramones band manager because she 'just kept yelling' jailed for life

Updated: 04:31 EDT, 4 May 2010

A personal assistant was jailed for 25 years to life after being convicted of murdering her boss - a band manager turned estate agent - in a vicious beating at the victim's New York City Fifth Avenue penthouse.

Natavia Lowery, 28, will be eligible for parole in 2035 after killing Linda Stein, who co-managed The Ramones in their Seventies heyday and later became a real estate broker with clients including Madonna and Sting.

The 62-year-old Stein was found dead in her apartment on October 30, 2007. The coroner ruled the cause of death as 'blunt impact trauma to the head and neck'. At the time of her death Stein was battling breast cancer. Victim: Linda Stein died as a result of 'blunt impact trauma to the head and neck'. Stein's PA Natavia Lowery, 28, will be sentenced over Stein's murder today

Lowery also was convicted of stealing around £20,000 from her employer.

During the trial the court heard Lowery admitted to killing Stein because she 'just kept yelling at her'.

Lowery  also claimed that Stein had blown marijuana smoke into her face and made a racial slur, but an autopsy determined that there was no marijuana in Stein's system.

Lowery initially denied any knowledge of the killing, blaming it on a masked stranger who told her not to report it. She eventually gave a videotaped account of beating Stein.

Stein began her career as a teacher but left to manage The Ramones with Danny Fields. Punk rockers: The Ramones were managed by Stein and Danny Fields during their rise to stardom in the Seventies

She was formerly married to and advised Seymour Stein, who was instrumental in launching the careers of Madonna, Talking Heads and The Pretenders.

She was a regular at iconic New York Club 54.

In the 1990s, she left band management to became 'real estate agent to the stars'. She sold property to Madonna and Sting, as well as Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, Steven Spielberg and Elton John.

Stein was reportedly the inspiration behind the go-getting estate agent who sells an apartment to Charlie Sheen's character in the 1987 film Wall Street, as well as a predatory music mogul in the 1998 film 54.


Natavia Lowery: PA who murdered Ramones manager Linda Stein jailed for life





