Leona Helmsley

Leona Helmsley ( born July 4, 1920 in Marbletown, Ulster County, NY as Leona Mindy Rosenthal, † August 20 2007 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States) was the wife of billionaire Harry Helmsley and real estate king († 1997) and by him since 1980 President of Helmsley hotels, the operation more than two dozen hotels in ten countries. In the vernacular, it was the nickname " Queen of avarice " and because of their utterances like " Only little people pay taxes " it was also called " The Queen of Mean" ( The Queen of nastiness ).

Life

Helmsley grew up as the daughter of Polish -born immigrants in Brooklyn. Her father was a hatter.

Helmsley's first husband was attorney Leo Panzirer from which she divorced in 1959. After that she was married and divorced by Joseph Lubin twice. Her third husband was since 1972 the real estate magnate Harry Helmsley, then 63 years old and one of the richest men in the United States. In 1980, he made ​​her president of Helmsley Hotels. The two were considered happy couple, which was still very much in love, even years after the marriage. So he left on July 4, 1976, the Empire State Building for his wife's birthday, who was also in that year as a two -hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States particularly committed U.S. national holiday, shine in the national colors of red, white and blue. After Harry Helmsley died in 1997, she had a week off every evening with the sunset, the lighting of the building.

Leona Helmsley had evaded taxes in the late 1980s and therefore had from 1992 to 1993 in jail.

Death

Helmsley died at the age of 87 of heart failure at her summer residence in Greenwich. Your Maltese dog Trouble ( German anger) she left twelve million U.S. dollars of their heritage. The dog should be buried at the family mausoleum in Helmsley's side. Your own son she had survived. Of the four children she bequeathed two under the condition that they visit their father's grave once a year, five million dollars. The other two grandchildren were " reasons that are known to them ," nothing. But in retrospect, the two empty outgoing fought a portion of Troubles assets, Craig Panzirer (* 1967) and Meegan Panzirer Wesolko (* 1970) were legally against these last injunctions against, arguing that her grandmother was not in full possession of their mental faculties been when she put the will. The grandson Panzirer and Wesolko now each received four and two million dollars. The "Trouble" sum awarded was reduced drastically, instead of twelve million of the dog receives 2 million dollars. The largest portion of their assets - estimated at $ 5 billion - to the Helmsley Charitable Fund accrue, which also takes care of dogs.

Documents

• Hotelier
• Americans
• Born in 1920
• Died in 2007
• Woman