“The Queen of Mean” was a chain-smoking hotelier and real estate tycoon with a reputation for tyrannical behaviour. She took the view that “only the little people pay taxes” but was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion in 1989. Sentenced to 16 years, she served just 19 months in prison and 2 months under house arrest. Worth some $8 billion, Helmsley left her Maltese dog, Trouble, $12 million in trust.
Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)
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- 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
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- 20th August 2007
- 230 Park Avenue
- 4th July 1920
- 925 Park Avenue
- Abe Hirschfeld
- Abraham Lincoln High School
- actions
- Alan Dershowitz
- Alice in Wonderland
- allegations
- Alvin Rosenthal
- America
- American
- annual guardian fee
- apartment
- apartments
- appeal
- arrhythmia
- beg
- begging
- billboard averts
- BOP custody
- broker
- brokerage
- Brooklyn
- Brown Harris Stevens
- business
- cardiovascular
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- Carl Lekic
- Central Park
- chain smoker
- charges dropped
- charitable
- Charles Bell
- chauffeur
- Chesterfield
- Chicago Sun Times
- cigarettes
- collapsed
- complex
- condo
- condominium broker
- condos
- congestive heart failure
- Connecticut
- conspiracy
- contractors
- convicted felon
- court
- Craig Panzirer
- cremated
- crimes
- dead
- death
- debt
- die
- disease
- divorce
- divorcing
- dogs
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- Dr. Patrick Ward
- Dunnellen Hall
- Elizabeth Baum
- Emmy Award
- Empire
- Empire State Building
- enfeebled
- entrepreneur
- estranged
- Eugene Brennan
- eviction
- extortion
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- federal criminal investigation
- federal prison
- federal tax evasion
- felon
- fired
- firefighters
- firing
- flamboyant
- Florida
- fortune
- Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel
- full-time security
- generous
- girl
- Gold Globe Award
- Greenwich
- grooming
- Harry Helmsley
- heart condition
- heart irregularity
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Helmskley
- Helmsley Palace Hotel
- Helmsley Spear
- Helmsleys
- Hiltons
- hired
- hiring
- homosexual
- Hospitality Management Services
- hotelier
- house arrest
- housekeeper
- hypertension
- illegal invoices
- Imelda Marcos
- indicted
- insults
- investigated
- investor
- isolation
- Jack Nicholson
- jail
- jailed
- Jay Panzirer
- Jeremiah McCarthy
- Jewish
- Joseph Lubin
- Kathy Hilton
- lawyer
- Lee Roberts
- legally changed her name
- Lena Mindy Rosenthal
- Leni Roberts
- Leo Panzirer
- Leona Helmsley
- Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
- Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
- Leona Mindy Roberts
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- Lloyd Bridges
- lonely
- Madison Avenue
- maintenance
- Maltese
- Manhattan
- Manhattan Surogate Court
- Marbletown
- mausoleum
- Meegan Panzirer
- million-dollar dance floor
- millionaire
- Mindy Roberts
- mistake
- New York
- New York Helmsley Hotel
- New York Post
- New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Nicolas Celea
- Nora Dunn
- nothing but the best
- notorious
- obscenities
- only the little people pay taxes
- Park Lane Hotel
- Paul Ruffino
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- Queen
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- Ransdell Peirson
- Real Estate
- Red Queen
- Reena Roth
- Rick Hilton
- Rodrigo Handall
- Rudy Giuliani
- Ruffino
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- Sandcastle Hotel
- Saturday Night Live
- Separated at Birth
- settlement
- silence
- silent
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetry
- social
- socialite
- spy
- sue
- sued
- suspended
- Suzanne Pieshette
- tax evasion
- tax returns
- taxes
- tenants
- terminated
- termination
- The Helmsley Palace
- The Joker
- Tiffany
- Tim Burton
- to this day I don't why they did it
- tremendous wealth
- trial
- trouble
- trust fund
- trusts
- Tudor City
- twice divorced
- tyrannical
- U.S.
- unfit
- unpaid
- US
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- vendors
- vice president
- waiter
- we don't pay taxes
- wealth
- weekend retreat
- widow
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- you must pay a lot of taxes
- You're not my fucking partner!
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[…] Leona Helmsley didn’t do “little”. She lived by the belief that “only the little people pay taxes” and housed herself in a vast mansion on a 40-acre plot in Connecticut. Helmsley died at the house in 2007 and it is now once again for sale through David Ogilvy & Associates. […]