Helmsley Leaves Dog $12 Million in Will AP Posted: 2007-08-29 14:40:57 Filed Under: Business News NEW YORK (Aug. 29) - Leona Helmsley's dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley's grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire's estate. Helmsley left her beloved white Maltese, named Trouble, a $12 million trust fund, according to her will, which was made public Tuesday in surrogate court. She also left millions for her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, who was named to care for Trouble in her absence, as well as two of four grandchildren from her late son Jay Panzirer - so long as they visit their father's grave site once each calendar year. Otherwise, she wrote, neither will get a penny of the $5 million she left for each. Helmsley left nothing to two of Jay Panzirer's other children - Craig and Meegan Panzirer - for "reasons that are known to them," she wrote. But no one made out better than Trouble, who once appeared in ads for the Helmsley Hotels, and lived up to its name by biting a housekeeper. "I direct that when my dog, Trouble, dies, her remains shall be buried next to my remains in the Helmsley mausoleum," Helmsley wrote in her will. The mausoleum, she ordered, must be "washed or steam-cleaned at least once a year." She left behind $3 million for the upkeep of her final resting place in Westchester County, where she is buried with her husband, Harry Helmsley, and where the pair have a view of the New York skyline. She also left her chauffeur, Nicholas Celea, $100,000. Everything else, including cash from sales of the Helmsley's residences and belongings, reported to be worth billions, she ordered sold and the proceeds given to the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. Her longtime spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, had no comment. Helmsley died earlier this month at her Connecticut home. She became known as a symbol of 1980s greed and earned the nickname "the Queen of Mean" after her 1988 indictment and subsequent conviction for tax evasion. One employee had quoted her as snarling, "Only the little people pay taxes." Hahahahaha leaving a dog 12 million lmao, this is probably what paris hilton's gonna do when she dies, valuing her dog over her grandchildren (bad grandchildren?) , even the grandchildren she gives money to got less than the dog and reserving 3 million for her funeral, she must be a very bitter person to get the nickname, "Queen of Mean," must be very lonely too to want her dog buried next to her, and her dog's name is trouble lols
why why why i'll sleep with the old hag if she wants for 10 illion dollars or the dog if she wants so unfair this world is
-ohmy......thats crazy stuff......i heard this on the news today...o wait may have been yesterday..... well anyways the 1st thing my baba says after hearing was "jeeshhh dogs live better lives than humans" -rotfl
