By SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) _ Real estate agent and punk rock pioneer Linda Stein’s blood was spattered around her penthouse after she was bludgeoned to death, but not a drop was found on the clothes of the personal assistant charged with her murder, a defense lawyer said.

Male DNA also was mingled with Stein’s blood in a bathroom sink _ suggesting her killer was a man, not the female assistant, the attorney argued.

The former aide, Natavia Lowery, was due in court Wednesday for a hearing.

Her attorney, Ronald Kuby, said the information about the male DNA was in a Jan. 11 medical examiner’s report that prosecutors sent to him. He suggested in a letter Tuesday to Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Micki Scherer that the unknown man likely left the DNA while cleaning up after killing Stein.

Medical examiner’s office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove and Manhattan district attorney’s office spokeswoman Barbara Thompson declined to comment.

Lowery, 26, is charged with beating her 61-year-old boss to death with a heavy stick in Stein’s $3 million apartment around 12:45 p.m. on Oct. 30. Surveillance camera tapes show Lowery leaving the building around 1:15 p.m.

Kuby has said the tapes prove Lowery’s innocence. He filed with the court a medical examiner’s report saying Stein’s daughter, Samantha Wells, told police she spoke to her mother by telephone around 2 p.m. on Oct. 30.

”If there is evidence that Linda Stein was alive and well after defendant Lowery left the premises,” Kuby said in court papers, ”then Ms. Lowery could not have been the killer.”

Stein was once a co-manager of the influential punk rock group the Ramones. She also was a real estate agent whose clients included Sting, Steven Spielberg and other show business figures, earning her the nickname ”Realtor to the Stars.”