*Queen of Mean* Leona Helmsley Dies

[eddierox]

NEW YORK - Leona Helmsley, the cutthroat hotel magnate whose title as the *Queen of Mean* was sealed during a tax evasion case in which she was quoted as snarling *Only Little People Pay Taxes,* died Monday at age 87.

Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein.

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...h=itn_helmsley

Already experienced in real estate before her marriage, Helmsley helped her husband run a $5 billion empire that included managing the Empire State Building.

She became a household name in 1989 when she was tried for tax evasion. The sensational trial included testimony from disgruntled employees who said she terrorized both the menial and the executive help at her homes and hotels.

That image of Helmsley as the *Queen of Mean* was sealed when a former housekeeper testified that she heard Helmsley say:
*We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.*

[310stanger]

NEW YORK - Leona Helmsley, the cutthroat hotel magnate whose title as the *Queen of Mean* was sealed during a tax evasion case in which she was quoted as snarling *Only Little People Pay Taxes,* died Monday at age 87.

Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein.

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.js...h=itn_helmsley

Already experienced in real estate before her marriage, Helmsley helped her husband run a $5 billion empire that included managing the Empire State Building.

She became a household name in 1989 when she was tried for tax evasion. The sensational trial included testimony from disgruntled employees who said she terrorized both the menial and the executive help at her homes and hotels.

That image of Helmsley as the *Queen of Mean* was sealed when a former housekeeper testified that she heard Helmsley say:
*We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.*

what an ugly bitch

[FSANE]

Who?

[third_shift|studios]

[Sarge]

Eddie is sad.....she was a big time New York liberal....

[Spaz]

it was colonel mustard... in the hall way... with a potato launcher and a hubcap...

[eddierox]

Eddie is sad.....she was a big time New York liberal....

I had no idea she was a liberal ...

I thought that the time she fired a guy who had six kids for doing something inane and stating that he should have *kept his pecker in his pants* was quite mean ...

Sounds neo-con to me ... yes? no?

I thought Kennedy was the only Northeast USA liberal that existed ... straighten me out ...

[Sarge]

I already did.

[Spaz]

[bmyers]

I already did.

take your finger off the damn ban button for awhile it gonna get a blister.

[gwballin]

That image of Helmsley as the *Queen of Mean* was sealed when a former housekeeper testified that she heard Helmsley say:
*We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.*

I can't wait until I'm rich enough for the above statement to apply to me.