Roxanne, those days are over, Sting has finally sold his apartment at The Brentmore at 88 Central Park West.
Originally listed in 2006 for $24.9 million with the late broker to the stars, Linda Stein, Sting and wife Trudie Styler's luscious layout has since suffered a $5 million price chop and a brokerage switch, leaving it listed for $19 Read More
Last November, after three years of writing about magnificently overpriced New York residential real estate, I moved to the Wall Street beat. It is sober and civilized by comparison. What I feel nostalgic for isn’t the real estate itself. Even though it’s fun to visit cosmic Manhattan homes—like the hand-built third floor of the Plaza, Read More
Nearly a month into the trial of Linda Stein's accused killer, jurors finally heard details of how the 62-year-old real estate broker to the stars was killed.
Stein's attacker beat her 24 times, continuing even after she was lying paralyzed and unconscious on the floor of her Fifth Avenue co-op, according to Tuesday's testimony by a coroner from Read More
After her best friend became her enemy, Natavia Lowery beat Linda Stein on the back of her head until she was dead, according to the videotaped confession played for jurors Thursday in court.
"How do you go from, like, a best friend," Ms. Lowery asked of her boss, real estate broker Ms. Stein, "to an enemy?"
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Natavia Lowery broke down just before dawn in a Lower East Side precinct, after detectives told her that security footage disproved her story about a masked intruder clad in black.
"I want to die here," Ms. Lowery began her written confession of the murder of real estate broker to the stars Linda Stein, made around 6:40 Read More
Natavia Lowery had a close and troubled relationship with her boss Linda Stein. That's according to the testimony of Stein's coworkers at Prudential Douglas Elliman's top brokers.
According to broker Louise Stocker, Ms. Lowery had said, "We're going to have to put an end to this," when asked about working for Stein a couple of days before Stein's October 2007 Read More
Linda Stein suspected the night before she was murdered that someone was stealing from her.
Ending the first week of testimony in the murder trial of Stein's former assistant, Natavia Lowery, prosecutors called Mark Benecke, who worked with Ms. Stein selling pricey homes to the stars at real estate firm Douglas Elliman. The judge abruptly called Read More
After giving a tearful account Monday of her mother's murder, the daughter of high-powered real estate broker Linda Stein said Tuesday that their relationship was tumultuous.
Mandy Stein, 34, described her mother as "controversial," under cross-examination by defense attorneys. They fought over money, and several weeks before her death the Manhattan broker kicked Mandy out Read More
Natavia Lowery was a thief but not a killer, her lawyer said at the opening of the young woman's trial for killing Linda Stein, Manhattan real estate broker to the stars.
The indebted Ms. Lowery, now 28, stole repeatedly and often brazenly from her boss, whose star-studded Rolodex included Sting, Angelina Jolie and close friend Read More
Crime Waves regular Natavia Lowery would like to clarify the exact nature of her guilt.
While she indeed stole around $30,000 by opening credit cards in realtor (and former Ramones manager) Linda Stein's name, she did not kill Stein. The crime scene was grisly, and security tapes show Lowery leaving Read More
“I don’t need any water!” exclaimed an exasperated Mandy Stein, nervously working the red carpet outside the AMC Loews Village 7 cinemas on Friday, April 24, while relatives and aides hassled her with questions, advice and refreshments.
Ms. Stein, daughter of the late Linda Stein, real estate agent to the stars and Read More
Last May, Linda Stein sat in her living room and told The Observer about her one grandchild: She said her own daughter had "crawled out of her crib when she was two years old and found Iggy Pop rolling a joint on the living-room floor with Paul Simon and Elton John sitting there. So Read More
Samantha Stein-Wells, the daughter of Manhattan real estate broker Linda Stein, who was murdered in her Fifth Avenue apartment last November, is about to turn 35. To celebrate the milestone, she is throwing a birthday party at Marquee, the Chelsea nightclub, tonight.
Here's the invitation Ms. Stein-Wells sent to friends:
Elton John and his partner David Furnish were across the world from each other last night, with Mr. Furnish in Australia rehearsing for his role in the musical Billy Elliot while Mr. John found himself at a party held at the new Chopard flagship store at 63rd and Madison to celebrate its opening.
The 60-year-old Mr. Read More
The medical examiner “says she died of multiple skull fractures, and so we’re going to Read More
