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'Queen of Mean' Helmsley leaves $12 mln for dog

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发表于 2017-8-6 14:21:57 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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    U.S. real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley gave her favorite dog Trouble 12 million dollars in her will but nothing for two of her grandchildren, media reported on Thursday.
    Helmsley, the "Queen of Mean" who was famously quoted as saying "only the little people pay taxes" before going to jail for tax evasion, died Aug. 20 at 87.Real estate baroness Leona Helmsley appears for court to fight a former hotel manager's charges that she discriminates against homosexuals in New York on Jan. 21, 2003. Helmsley left 12 million U.S. dollars in her will for her dog Trouble but cut out two of her four grandchildren entirely.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
    Helmsley left her beloved white Maltese, named Trouble, a 12 million dollars trust fund, according to her will, which was made public Tuesday in surrogate court.
    Trouble will be cared for by Helmsley's brother Alvin Rosenthal, who was left 10 million dollars.
    She also left millions for 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 dollars she left for each.
    Her chauffeur will get 100,000 dollars.
    Helmsley left nothing to two of Jay Panzirer's other children -- Craig and Meegan Panzirer -- for "reasons that are known to them," she wrote.
    Helmsley was convicted of evading 1.7 million dollars in taxes in 1989 and served 18 months in federal prison.
    At trial a former housekeeper recounted that Helmsley had once told her: "We don't pay taxes. Only little people pay taxes." Helmsley denied making the statement.
    Helmsley ordered that cash from sales of the Helmsley's residences and belongings, reported to be worth billions, be given to the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.
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