Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Helmsley Leaves Dog $12 Million in Will
AP

Posted: 2007-08-29 10:03:46
Filed Under: Business News

NEW YORK (Aug. 29) - Leona Helmsley's dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley's grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire's estate.

Famed hotelier Leona Helmsley, who died Aug. 20, left her dog Trouble $12 million in her will. Two of her grandchildren got nothing. Here, she holds the dog in 2003.
Helmsley left her beloved white Maltese, named Trouble, a $12 million trust fund, according to her will, which was made public Tuesday in surrogate court.

She also left millions for her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, who was named to care for Trouble in her absence, as well as two of four grandchildren from her late son Jay Panzirer - so long as they visit their father's grave site once each calendar year.

Otherwise, she wrote, neither will get a penny of the $5 million she left for each.

Helmsley left nothing to two of Jay Panzirer's other children - Craig and Meegan Panzirer - for "reasons that are known to them," she wrote.

But no one made out better than Trouble, who once appeared in ads for the Helmsley Hotels, and lived up to its name by biting a housekeeper.

"I direct that when my dog, Trouble, dies, her remains shall be buried next to my remains in the Helmsley mausoleum," Helmsley wrote in her will.

The mausoleum, she ordered, must be "washed or steam-cleaned at least once a year." She left behind $3 million for the upkeep of her final resting place in Westchester County, where she is buried with her husband, Harry Helmsley, and where the pair have a view of the New York skyline.

She also left her chauffeur, Nicholas Celea, $100,000.

Everything else, including cash from sales of the Helmsley's residences and belongings, reported to be worth billions, she ordered sold and the proceeds given to the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.

Her longtime spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, had no comment.

Helmsley died earlier this month at her Connecticut home. She became known as a symbol of 1980s greed and earned the nickname "the Queen of Mean" after her 1988 indictment and subsequent conviction for tax evasion. One employee had quoted her as snarling, "Only the little people pay taxes."

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the headline in the NY post today was:

Rich Bitch

ahh, i love the post.  not really.

leona was MEAN til the end. What kind of person leaves a dog, $12 million and such paltry amts to her family and loyal employees.

The Queen of Mean, that's who.

So who gets the money when the dog dies?

A little heir of the dawg.......

I never heard of her but from reading that she does sound like a bitch.

So if D marries the dog, he's a millionaire?




/jarmo

Jarmo! I'd expect Stolat to marry the dog before D!
:rofl:

Yea! Helmsley too!



If that dog is smart enough to get on the will, then that dog will be smart enough to convince D to sign a pre-nup. D isn't about the money anyway man, he's an artist who likes to fuck dogs.

she was a disgusting human being.  she left 12 million to that dog just to stick it even further to her relatives.
if there is a hell, i hope she rots in it, and not because she disinherited her family.  she was abusive to the people
who worked for her, and for her tax evasion... nasty bitch! 

I bet  you that dog has better lawyers than you or I would ever see.   ;)

Wrong, I'm too independent for marriage.

Though I'm am enjoying "the chase" immensely.......

Of what? Your tail?

Well said. She's a complete idiot.

"The chase, dude, the chase!"............man! is romance that dead?!  ::)

That dog will be eating the finest food in all the land for the rest of its life :hihi: