Leona Helmsley said out loud

Tovah/Leona!

Did she flash her panties?

She never said that.

Leona looked out for the little guy. The little guy with fur.

I'm too smart to pay taxes.

Her sense of entitlement made her the Meghan Markle of her day.

I miss the Leona Days of the 1980s - 1990s. She really made interesting headlines and brought us a strange sense of 'beauty' in her photographs.

Now we have to look at photos of her doppelganger, Jeff Lewis.

R3, she most certainly did! She was a terrifically angry and paranoid woman. I met her a few times. It took about 5 seconds to realize she was a dragon lady. Only Roy Cohn struck me as immediately repulsive quite as quickly after meeting and chatting with.

R8 Where's the source of this alleged statement? We need receipts.

Rudy nabbed her

It's what's killing America......that big companies don't pay any taxes at all.

She was a horrible, abrasive shrew. Verbally abusive to staff, egotistical snob.

And cheap! Pathologically stingy.

“Not paying taxes makes me smart”

Best she ever looked!

I remember that cold bitch having a meltdown after she was sentenced and giving an interview. She was angry, scared, crying, but mostly the bitch was indignant that they had the unmitigated gaul to put The Queen in jail with common criminals!

I'm just wild about Harry!

TAKE THAT, LEONA! TRUMP FIRES MISSIVE AT HOTEL RIVAL HELMSLEY .

April 20, 1989

NEW YORK, APRIL 19 -- In what must rank right up there with Truman chewing out MacArthur and Sondra Gotlieb slapping her secretary, Donald J. Trump has shaken the onyx and marble foundations of the hotel world by calling his equally overpublicized rival, Leona Helmsley, a "disgrace to humanity." In a deliciously vitriolic letter to the self-proclaimed Queen of the Helmsley hotel empire, The Donald (as he is called by his relentlessly glamorous wife Ivana) displays a previously hidden capacity for venom by slicing The Leona into tiny little pieces. "Without the veil of Harry Helmsley, you would be a non-entity. You would not be able to randomly fire and abuse people in order to make yourself happy," The Donald declares in the letter, which mysteriously made its way into the pages of the New York Post today. "What has happened to the legendary Helmsley reputation is indeed sad -- but I am not surprised because I know you so well. When God created Leona, the world received no favors." Having castigated one spouse, Trump could not resist the chance to console the other. "Dear Harry," he wrote to Leona's husband. "You are a great man who has been badly tarnished by, in my opinion, the actions of Leona. I am enclosing a letter that I sent to Leona ... Regardless of what happens, I will always respect you and be your friend." The Trump assault comes at a difficult time for Leona Helmsley, who is preparing for a June trial on charges of tax evasion and fraud involving millions of dollars in renovations to the couple's 26-acre estate in Greenwich, Conn. A federal judge ruled earlier this month that Harry Helmsley, 80, probably will be unable to stand trial with his wife because of poor health and a failing memory. The letter to Leona (more juicy excerpts in a moment) stems from (surprise) a financial dispute. To wit, casino magnate and multibillionaire developer Trump recently purchased a chunk of Atlantic City real estate from Penthouse International Ltd. for $56 million, and plans to convert an unfinished casino into a noncasino hotel. Included in the property is a small parcel owned by the Helmsleys that had been leased to Penthouse for 100 years.

Oh for chrissakes, r9...

[quote]Another one of the key witnesses was a former housekeeper at the Helmsley home, Elizabeth Baum, who recounted Leona telling her, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." Leona denied saying this. By then, however, the trial was already highlighting her abusive and micromanaging behavior towards family members, employees, contractors and even senior executives. Former employees testified at trial "about how they feared her, with one recalling how she casually fired him while she was being fitted for a dress". Most legal observers felt that Helmsley's hostile personality, arrogance, and "naked greed" alienated the jurors.

R19, there’s no evidence and people don’t speak that way. If you ever once stepped foot outside the house you’d know that. The line sounds like it’s out of a ridiculous Hollywood movie.

Take it up with Elizabeth Baum and the court record, r19. According to you she lied under oath. Apparently you weren't around when that trial was ongoing. It was "the" takeaway line from the entire trial. Go back to crying about Walmarts in Chicago closing because of all of those nasty shoplifters.

^r20 oops

Hey Trump,

Nice Suzanne as the Mean Queen.

Here's the link for R24's movie! I've watched it multiple times (because of course I have).

[quote] Leona Helmsley was born Lena Mindy Rosenthal in Marbletown, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrants, Ida (née Popkin), a homemaker, and Morris Rosenthal, a hatmaker.

Typical NY nouveau riche trash.

Bitch, your father was a HAT MAKER, and your mother a housewife.

Stupid cunt.

She was Donald Trump’s biggest enemy.

She looks like a lesbian gym teacher at an all-girls school.

Are you kidding R6? Squeezing MM into every thread is exhausting. MM is so much worse than LH and a tiny fraction of the woman. LH for all her faults worked doggedly her whole life, she was clever and enterprising. She had hundreds of employees and several thriving businesses. And yes, like MM I guess, was a pretty odious human being.

MM is completely useless to the world. Her only gift, as she proves every day, is her mere presence…at events, charities, anywhere there are cameras focused on her and an award is being given to her. For what? Who the fuck knows or cares.