Prudential Douglas Elliman's chief sent Linda Stein out to the Hamptons every summer, the East Hampton Star reports. “She was very involved in East Hampton and Amagansett, because she was connected to basically the entertainment business, and a lot of her clients were out there," said Dottie Herman, Prudential's president and chief operating officer of Prudential Douglas Elliman. “I worked out [a plan] with her [that] every year she would be in the Hamptons,” she added. “That was deliberately done.”
According to the newspaper, Stein was a familiar face at Prudential’s Bridgehampton and East Hampton offices. "Her boisterous personality made her popular with the other agents," writes Kate Maier.
She was apparently so devoted to her work that when there was a possibility she had to take some time off in the summer for surgery related to her breast cancer, Herman tells the newspaper, Stein said, "No, no, no, I can’t have it until September. I’ve got to be out in the Hamptons."
Stein used to stay often at Eothen, filmmaker Paul Morrissey's Montauk estate once co-owned with Andy Warhol. A close friend of Morrissey's, Stein sold the estate early this year.
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