Helmsley, Leona

Helmsley, Leona
▪ 2008
Leona Mindy Rosenthal  American hotel magnate
born July 4, 1920, Marbletown, N.Y.

died Aug. 20, 2007, Greenwich, Conn.
was dubbed “the queen of mean” as a result of her imperious manner and callous, abusive treatment of employees of Helmsley Hotels, of which her real-estate mogul husband, Harry Helmsley, had made her president in 1980. In 1989 she was tried on tax-evasion charges—it was reported that she had declared that “only the little people pay taxes”—and was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison; she served less than half of that. Helmsley added to her notoriety by leaving her pet Maltese a $12 million trust fund in her will.

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