“Queen of Mean” Leona Helmsley, 87
Posted: Monday, August 20th, 2007 4:37 pm
NEW YORK — Leona Helmsley, the cutthroat hotel magnate whose title as the “queen of mean” was sealed during a tax evasion case in which she was quoted as snarling “only little people pay taxes,” died Monday at age 87.
Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein. … Read full obituary
