LOL!
"You @#$%&! I am a former model!"
Posted on 08/20/2007 7:29:03 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
Leona Helmsley, the hotelier who went to prison as a tax cheat and was reviled as the "queen of mean," died Monday at age 87.
Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein.
Helmsley and her husband, Harry, ran a $5 billion real estate empire that included managing the Empire State Building. She was tried in 1989 on tax evasion charges in a sensational trial that included testimony from disgruntled employees who said she terrorized both menial and executive help at her homes and hotels.
Her image was sealed when a former housekeeper testified that she heard Helmsley say: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
She denied having said it, but the words followed her the rest of her life.
I think she would have done better without the makeup.... but one photo is plenty....
Only the good die young..............
Jeezuus, don’t do that! I thought that was Helen Thomas or Janet Reno there for a moment.
I need a drink.
Her main crime?
WHite AND rich.
She got the Martha Stewart treatment. But I don’t really care. They both continued supporting to dems anyway.
Note the Mao-like collar similar to the hildebeast. Coincidence? I think not.
I didnt know she was part Vulcan. Fascinating...
I agree. I’m certain she had her faults, and I’m no fan, but I disliked how the MSM seemed to thoroughly enjoy going out of their way to trample her.
Rest in Peace, Leona
LOL!
"You @#$%&! I am a former model!"
Max Roach, he passed away on sat.
I guess she can give Satan hell now.
You betcha.
She gave thousands to these folks:
CHARLES B. RANGEL (D - NY)
CHARLES E. SCHUMER (D - NY)
And let's forget her thousands of dollars to this guy:
http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Leona_Helmsley.php
HELMSLEY, LEONA M MRS
NEW YORK, NY 10019 CARTER, JIMMY (D)
President
CARTER/MONDALE PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE INC $1,000 12/19/79
HELMSLEY, LEONA MRS
NEW YORK, NY 10019 CARTER, JIMMY (D)
President
CARTER/MONDALE PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE INC $1,000
primary 12/10/79
“I agree. If she actually did something wrong, I didn’t hear it through the din of calumny heaped upon her.”
How about tax evasion!
I think Rodney’s quote fits nicely: “...the last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it!”
How would you like your legacy to be that you were referred to as the “Queen of Mean”?
I am shocked!She died of heart failure?I didn’t know she had a heart.
She reminds me of “The Frog” from the cartoon “Courages Cat”.......Just needs the cigar:-)
-PJ
The group resposible for the Wellstone Memorial will be staging a Helmsley tribute at the DNC convention.
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