According to New York Magazine, murdered real estate agent Linda Stein had been staying in East Hampton at a house paid for by Prudential Douglas Elliman. At the time, she was receiving treatment for a brain tumor. “It was definitely below-grade for Linda,” a friend of Stein's tells the magazine. The house was "on the correct side of the Montauk Highway but with fixtures that looked like they came from Home Depot." She hated that house and would call it "the horrible rental," Robert Kolker writes. "She made the best of it by visiting with new friends like Jamie Drake, the interior designer, whom she asked to fix her up with any eligible men, and old friends like Paul Morrissey, who for several summers loaned her a cottage on the beach at Eothen, his estate in Montauk." She decided that she would go back to Montauk next summer. "It spoke to her of a younger self, one more alive and potent."