{"id":2904,"date":"2007-11-10T08:33:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T16:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/11\/dick_wolf_backs_off_for_now.html"},"modified":"2007-11-10T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T16:33:33","slug":"dick_wolf_backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/dick_wolf_backs.html","title":{"rendered":"Dick Wolf Backs Off . . . For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime_file\/2007\/11\/10\/2007-11-10_aide_confesses_she_beat_linda_stein_to_d.html\">undercuts the Law &#038; Order storyline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a stunning end to a sensational whodunit, Linda Stein&#8217;s assistant confessed she bashed in the Realtor&#8217;s head with a yoga stick after she blew pot smoke in her face and made a racial crack, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Natavia Lowery calmly cleaned up the Fifth Ave. penthouse after killing the &#8220;Realtor to the Stars&#8221; in a rage &#8212; then filched the dead woman&#8217;s cell phone and used her ATM card to steal $800, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Lowery, 26, was charged with second-degree murder in the baffling Oct. 30 slaying of Stein, a punk-rock pioneer who became wealthy by selling Manhattan&#8217;s best real estate to Madonna, Sting, Steven Spielberg and other celebs.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Hours earlier, with a videocamera rolling, Lowery confessed to cops, describing how her four months of employment as Stein&#8217;s go-fer came to a bloody end.<\/p>\n<p>She said on the morning of Oct. 30 she got into an argument with the brash Stein, who co-managed the Ramones before she began selling penthouses to the rich and famous.<\/p>\n<p>Stein, 62, who was battling cancer, started blowing pot smoke in her face and berating her as she worked on the computer, Lowery told cops.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get the f&#8212;ing e-mails! How can you be so f&#8212;ing slow!&#8221; Stein supposedly bellowed, a police source said.<\/p>\n<p>Stein, who had private yoga sessions in her $2.5 million pad, was waving a 4-pound strength-building yoga stick at Lowery as she yelled, the assistant told cops.<\/p>\n<p>After Lowery retrieved the e-mails, Stein offered to buy her lunch as a peace offering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got my own money. I don&#8217;t need you to buy me lunch,&#8221; the assistant said indignantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black people don&#8217;t have any money,&#8221; Stein retorted, according to Lowery. &#8220;Save your money and I&#8217;ll buy you lunch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An enraged Lowery grabbed the yoga stick from Stein and hit her with it a half-dozen times until she was face-down in a pool of blood, police said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sort of undercuts the Law &#038; Order storyline: In a stunning end to a sensational whodunit, Linda Stein&#8217;s assistant confessed she bashed in the Realtor&#8217;s head with a yoga stick after she blew pot smoke in her face and made a racial crack, police said Friday. Natavia Lowery calmly cleaned up the Fifth Ave. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}