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Will Smith nervous about daughter dating
GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Famed New York hotelier Leona Helmsley has died of heart failure at 87 at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn.,TMZ.com reported Monday.
Alongside her husband, Harry, Helmsley ran a $5 billion real estate empire that at one time included the Empire State Building, the New York Palace Hotel, the Park Lane Hotel and the Harley Hotel chain.
Dubbed by the press as the "Queen of Mean” for her demanding ways and irascible personality, Helmsley served 18 months in prison after she was convicted of federal tax evasion in 1989. Then-U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani was one of the two chief prosecutors in the case.
A former housekeeper once claimed she heard Helmsley say: “We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes."
Although Helmsley denied making the statement, the words haunted her the rest of her life.
She again made headlines in 2002 when she was court-ordered to pay $554,000 in damages to a former employee who said Helmsley fired him because he was gay.
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