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Leona Roberts Helmsley (born Lena Mindy Rosenthal; July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was an American businesswoman. After allegations of non-payment were made by contractors hired to improve Helmsley's Connecticut home, she was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989.
Reid was born August 1858 in Richmond, Indiana, and is a son of Daniel and Anna (née Dougan) Reid. [1] [3] He was a descendant of a Scottish-Irish family. [4] Reid was educated in the public schools of Richmond. His father died when he was 15 years old and he was reared by his mother.
Harry Helmsley was the son of Henry Helmsley, a wholesale dry goods buyer, and the former Minnie Brakmann. He was born in Manhattan and brought up in The Bronx, attending Evander Childs High School, where he did not graduate. The family could not afford a college education, but his grandfather got him a job as an office boy in a real estate ...
Leona Helmsley left behind an unusual will after her death in 2007. ... At the time that this news was announced, there were so many death threats against the dog that it began requiring $100,000 ...
Leona Helmsley's reputation for her dealing with her fellow man is, let's just say, not the best. She spent time in the pen for tax evasion and, in an incident recounted by famed attorney Alan ...
Helmsley was an icon of the “greed is good” era, an owner of luxury hotels and condominiums who left behind a $5 billion estate (which Trump Nemesis and ‘Queen of Mean’ Leona Helmsley ...
It was purchased in 1983 by Leona Helmsley and her husband Harry for US$11 million. Leona Helmsley would live in Dunnellen Hall until her death in 2007. [3] According to the Greenwich Historical Society, Dunnellen Hall is one of the last intact historic estates left in Greenwich. [4] [5]
After Leona's death in 2007, her estate sold The New York Helmsley Hotel to Host Hotels & Resorts in 2011 for $313.5 million. [7] The new owners contracted with Westin Hotels to manage the property, following an 18-month closure for a $75 million renovation, and the hotel became The Westin New York Grand Central on October 1, 2012.