"The Ramones curse lives on," writes the Gotham City Insider of Prudential Douglas Elliman agent Linda Stein's murder. Or as Hermenautic Circle puts it: "The Ramones curse strikes again."
In a posting titled "Ramones curse claims another life," Tabloid Baby explains, "Joey died of lymphoma in 2001. Dee Dee ODd in 2002. Johnny died in 2004. Pal Legs McNeil's followup to, "Please Kill me," didn't sell all that well. Producer Phil Spector went on trial for murder. Etc. Curse?" The circumstances surrounding Stein's murder, Tabloid Baby muses today, "add a queasy link to the Ramones curse."