Leona Helmsley's Maltese died after 12 years of living luxuriously
The Maltese, who inherited $12 million upon her owner's death, was 12
In honor of Tax Day, I'd like to recommend a new book to you: As Certain As Death: Quotations About Taxes. It's a labor of love (or possibly hate) compiled over more than 30 years by Jeff Yablon, a tax partner in the Washington office of the Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman law firm.
News outlets reported this week that legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite never amended his will to include Joanna Simon, who had been his girlfriend for the last four years of his life. Cronkite's daughter said the newsman never planned to leave Simon, a former opera singer and older sister of Carly Simon, any sort of inheritance, but either way, wills are back in the news.
We hope your initial reaction to this story wasn't "Wait, when is tax day again?" If you haven't filed yet, you'd better hurry. You don't want to find yourself on this list next year.
I had it all down to a system. Whenever a conversation would turn to the subject of age, I'd casually mention that I was 28, or 37, or 42, or however old I was at the time, and then I'd pause, magnanimously allowing people the beat they needed to acknowledge their surprise and commence with their compliments.
Three dogs were left almost $1 million when their owner passed away. WHAG's Lynne Ashminov reports.
You may think you have the worst boss in the Western Hemisphere, but if you've never had to dodge a cell phone, been fired over a breakfast pastry or had your work referred to as "a complete and utter mess," you probably have it better than you realize.
Fortune: The Power 50updated: Mon Oct 15 2007 11:34:00
"Men don't want women getting to the top. Period," Leona Helmsley told Playboy 17 years ago. Whether the late hotel queen was wrong or not, the history of Fortune's Most Powerful Women list shows that women are getting there anyway.
It seems trouble is following Trouble, Leona Helmsley's beloved pooch.
Leona Helmsley's decision to leave $12 million to her dog so it could live out its life in luxury proved once and for all that she was not one of the little people.
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.
The Queen of Mean's last property is fit for a king.
Helmsley was 'brilliant,' flawed
Leona Helmsley, who ran her empire of luxurious Manhattan hotels with an iron fist and went to prison for tax fraud, has died, her publicist said Monday.
Hotel mogul Leona Helmsley, who earned the nickname the "Queen of Mean" for the high-handed way she treated employees, died Monday of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist. She was 87.
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Fortune: Report Card updated: Mon Feb 17 2003 00:01:00
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Fortune: THE INSIDERupdated: Mon Jan 24 1994 00:01:00
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Like everybody else in the media, we are loath to defend Leona Helmsley, as it is considered naughty rather than nice to take business deductions to which you are not entitled, especially for girdl...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Sep 25 1989 00:01:00
MICHAEL WILLIAMS, 22, a contributor to Jim Bakker's PTL who sells coffee and food from his lunch wagon, called the Tummi Taxi, outside the courtroom where the televangelist has been on trial for fr...
Two years ago an ad campaign for Manhattan's Helmsley Palace pictured the hotel's president, Leona Helmsley, in the regal lodging next to the copy: ''It's the only palace in the world where the Que...
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