Nancy Spungen was not murdered by Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious, Malcolm McLaren says.
McLaren said he can't believe it.The former Sex Pistols manager said Vicious, the band's bassist, was incapable of murdering her.
Spungen was found dead on 12 October 1978 in the couple's New York hotel room having suffered a single stab wound to her abdomen from which she apparently bled to death.
Vicious was arrested and charged with her murder but claimed to have no memory of the event. He died of of a heroin overdose on February 2 1979.
Writing in a blog for The Daily Beast, McLaren said: "I was stunned when I first heard this and I still can't believe it. Sid was capable of a wide range of self-destructive acts, but I didn't think that he could kill someone, especially his girlfriend, unless it was a botched double suicide."
He added that he believed Spungen was killed after getting in a fight with someone who had stolen money from the couple's room.
He wrote: "He [Vicious] passed out on the bed, having taken fistfuls of the barbiturate Tuinal. All around him, drug dealers, friends of Nancy came and went from Room 100.
"Money was stolen and Sid's knife was taken from the wall where it was hung and seemingly used by someone defending themselves in a struggle with Nancy.
"Nancy was no pushover. Probably, she caught this person stealing money from the bedroom drawer."
He also revealed that Vicious' mother Anne Beverley smuggled him heroin hidden in her vagina.
McLaren wrote: "Sid's mother, Anne, was kind enough and helped him wherever she could. A small-time drug dealer, she smuggled heroin in her vagina to Sid at Riker's Island, a detention center in New York where he was awaiting trial for the murder of Nancy."
He went on to praise Vicious as being the embodiment of punk rock, calling him " the ultimate DIY Punk Idol".
