Harry Helmsley

Harry B. Helmsley ( March 4, 1909 *, † January 4, 1997 in Scottsdale, Arizona ) was a real estate tycoon, whose company became one of the largest in the United States. The company's portfolio included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Building, the Park Lane Hotel and the New York Helmsley Hotel (also known as the New York Harley ).

His wife, Leona Helmsley - also known as " Queen of Mean" - was convicted in 1989 in a much-publicized trial for tax evasion. Helmsley was mitangeklagt, but it was determined that he was physically too ill to stand trial and mentally too weak to defend themselves sufficiently with his lawyers.

Life

Helmsley went to the Bronx to Evander Childs High School, then attended no college, but began in 1925 at the age of 16 in the real estate industry. He worked for Dwight, Veerhis & Perry, where he rose from a messenger boy ( for $ 12 per week ) for broker partners. He bought the company in 1938 and eventually renamed it in Dwight, Voorhis & Helmsley.

In the same year he married Ella Eva Green Sherpick, a widow.

In 1955 he acquired the rival company Spear & Company, which was to Helmsley - Spear and expanded its holdings in Lower Manhattan. He also bought the real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens, which put him in the sale and management of rental and cooperative apartments. There he presented in 1970 also Leona Roberts as Senior Vice President.

From his first wife Eve he separated in 1971 and in 1972 married Leona.

In 1980, Helmsley was awarded the Gold Medal of The Hundred Year Association of New York " in recognition of service to the city of New York. "

Helmsley died at the age of 87 from pneumonia in hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, leaving his entire fortune of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars of his wife Leona. His remains were first on the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City, buried, but later reburied at the cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.