The first wife of punk-rock royalty Dee Dee Ramone – and a resident, of all controlled suburban places, of Port St. Lucie – finds herself smack dab in the middle of a battle over her book about The Ramones’ guitarist.

Vera Davie and her publisher, Phoenix Books, are being sued in a Manhattan court by the executor of Dee Dee’s estate.

According to the Associated Press, Davie, 55, is accused by executor Ira Herzog of violating an agreement to show him the manuscript and allow him to change anything he wanted.

Herzog wants the court to order publication held until he can review the tome. The book is due out in July.

In Poisoned Heart: I married Dee Dee Ramone, according to advance publicity, Davie “pays tribute to her late husband, revealing what it was like to live with and love a heroin addict and the genius behind The Ramones.”

Davie wrote under the pen name Vera Ramone King. King was Dee Dee’s name of choice during a short-lived rap career.

Dee Dee, whose real name was the not-so-hip Doug Colvin, co-founded The Ramones in 1974. While an underground staple for years, the band’s music eventually seeped into the mainstream with catchy tunes like Blitzkrieg Bop, I Wanna Be Sedated and Rock’n’Roll High School.

Dee Dee Ramone

In time, Vera married a local man named Kenneth Davie.

“I can’t comment on this book thing,” said an unidentified man who answered her phone in Port St. Lucie. “She’s on her way to New York and she’s not talking.”

According to various public records, Vera Davie moved to West Palm Beach as her marriage to Ramone fell apart in the early 1990s, then moved to Port St. Lucie in 2000. She lives on the quiet Mantua Street, in a $200,000-house and, not so long ago, drove around  in a 20-year-old Lincoln.

Dee Dee Ramone died of a heroin overdose at home in Los Angeles in 2002. He was 50. The equally untimely deaths of band mates Joey and Johnny Ramone, rumored to be the result of a “curse of the Ramones” all but cemented the band’s place in rock’n’roll lore.

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