The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The estate holding the assets of the one-time hotelier and reputed Queen of Mean Leona Helmsley sold two properties on Manhattan's East Side on Oct. 1, according to city records. The properties in question are a ground-floor 4,178-square-foot retail condominium at 760 Third Avenue and the nearby 144 East 48th Street , a 114,500-square-foot apartment building between Third and Lexington...
bLavish (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
The home where Leona Helmsley died from cardiac arrest back in 2007 is now selling for more than 50% off the original asking price. Dunnellen Hall started on the luxury market at $125 million and is now listed for a mere $60 million. Features of this luxurious mansion include 23,0000 square feet of living space, 7 bedroom [...]
Scandalous Women (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
"Well-behaved women rarely make history" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Queens, mistresses, murderers, adventurers, and spies. Settle down with the drink of your choice as I bring you the lives, loves, and sexual adventures of some of the most fascinating women who scandalized the world. From Jezebel, Cleopatra and Nefertiri in the Ancient World to Leona Helmsley and The Mayflower Madam. 2,000...
Inoperable Terran (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Yeah, but here in the Leona Helmsley administration laws are for the little people.
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
... did see her later TV career like The Bob Newhart Show . The next (and last) time I saw her was as Leona Helmsley in a TV movie in 1990 - and to me she was still gorgeous at the age of 63 in spite of the fake plumped-up lips to make her look as coarse as Leona. What I loved about Pleshette was not only her sultry looks and smoky voice but her fierce "don't mess with me"...
The Street (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
GREENWICH, Conn. () --- Welcome to Greenwich, where a $30 million house is considered priced to move and a 40-acre estate can be called "discounted" at $60 million. More on BID Market Activity | Last month, the estate of property tycoon Leona Helmsley dropped the price on her 22,000-square-foot summer home, Dunnellen Hall, to $60 million from $75 million. The site originally hit the market...
Sterling Performance (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
House prices are back up, share prices are back up. Even Adam Applegarth, the CEO who led Northern Rock to disaster, is back at work in financial services. Welcome back to life in the bubble. Crisis? What crisis? Leona Helmsley made herself an outcast by declaring that “taxes are only for little people”. For bankers, crises [...]
Strange Justice (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
... object to the demonstration that even the very rich, such as Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Leona Helmsley, and even law and accounting firms, are victims of wrongful prosecution. Confusing wealth with villainy, leftists cannot free themselves from the emotional predilection that a convicted rich person must have been so guilty that not even the best lawyers could get them off....
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Forest Hills, NY – Harvard law professor and celebrity defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz is now representing a New York doctor convicted of murdering her husband. Dershowitz and his brother, Nathan, are preparing an appeal for Dr. Mazoltuv Borukhova (MAZ’-uhl-tahv bor-uh-KOH’-vuh. Dershowitz’s clients have included Patricia Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson, Michael...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
... Maltese who inherited $12 million on the death of his owner, billionaire hotelier and investor Leona Helmsley, has a long battle on his paws if he intends to get a sniff at even half the pot of gold his mistress left him when she died in August 2007. Her bequest was struck down by a New York City court, but animal rights activists have promised to ensure that Trouble gets his dues....
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
... object to the demonstration that even the very rich, such as Michael Milken, Martha Stewart, and Leona Helmsley, and even law and accounting firms, are victims of wrongful prosecution. Confusing wealth with villainy, leftists cannot free themselves from the emotional predilection that a convicted rich person must have been so guilty that not even the best lawyers could get them off....
Hammer Of The Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
... Greenwich, Connecticut. Pretty close, bro-ham, pretty damned close. Here but for the grace of Leona Helmsley go you and me, podna: IT turns out the other half — or at least the tiny slice who live at the top of the wealth pyramid — are not sleeping any better than the rest of America. At a closed-door meeting of advisers to family offices — which serve families who...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Leona Helmsley's Greenwich estate, Dunnellen Hall is now under the 50 percent off mark. The estate which first hit the market for $125 million has gone tumbling down the entire time it has been on the market. Last we looked it was at $75 million. But a kind gentleman let me know that the home has now been reduced to $60 million . The traditional brick mansion is approximately 23,0000...
Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
... might be in error, or that the people running the Empire State building’s lights (it used to be Leona Helmsley) will come to their senses and change their minds. Even though the Empire State Building now does go green each year for the Muslim holiday of Eid.
Raedwald (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
... will no doubt not show a trace on her dull ovine features; the Harmans of this world, like Leona Helmsley, all believe that rules are for other, 'little' people like us, and don't apply to them.
