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Leona Roberts Helmsley (born Lena Mindy Rosenthal; July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was an American businesswoman. Her flamboyant personality and reputation for tyrannical behavior earned her the nickname Queen of Mean. [8]
May 9, 2022 · A real estate tycoon in the 1980s, Leona Helmsley became infamous for her legendary cruelty and unparalleled greed. In 1989, Leona Helmsley was convicted of 33 felonies for tax crimes and fraud and was sentenced to four years in prison, three years of probation, and a $9 million fine.
Aug 20, 2007 · Leona Helmsley, the self-styled hotel queen, whose prison term for income tax evasion and fraud was greeted with uncommon approval by a public who had grown to regard her as a 1980s symbol of...
Aug 21, 2007 · Leona Helmsley, the imperious Manhattan hotel magnate who was derided as “the Queen of Mean” in the late 1980s when she was on trial for income tax evasion and was deemed the woman New...
Aug 20, 2007 · Leona Helmsley, who ran her empire of luxurious Manhattan hotels with an iron fist and went to prison for tax fraud, has died, her publicist said Monday.
Aug 20, 2007 · NEW YORK — Leona Helmsley, the hotelier who went to prison after a tax-evasion conviction and was reviled as the "queen of mean," died Monday at age 87. She died of heart failure at her summer ...
Aug 20, 2007 · Leona Helmsley who, like Martha Stewart, was an enormously successful business woman whose name and image ultimately became the symbol of her era, but ultimately tarnished by her methods and...
May 23, 2016 · Perhaps inevitably, signs have pointed to a comeback for another eighties billionaire supervillain: Leona Helmsley.
Helmsley’s Millionaire Maltese, Trouble, Dies at 12. After inheriting millions from Leona Helmsley, her Maltese was both wealthy and quite disliked.
Married to the late billionaire Harry Helmsley since 1972 and berated by some due to her seeming lust for the spotlight, Leona has sometimes found her personal accomplishments as a savvy businesswoman overshadowed by the mystique that has grown up around her since marrying the much older Helmsley.
