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Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley was an American businesswoman, known for her flamboyant personality and her reputation for tyrannical behavior, earning her the nickname Queen of Mean.After allegations of non-payment were made by contractors hired to improve Helmsley's Connecticut home, she was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989. Although having initially received a sentence of sixteen years, she was required to serve only nineteen months in prison and two months under house arrest. During the trial, a former housekeeper testified that she had heard Helmsley say: "We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes," an aphorism which identified her the rest of her life. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. July 1920 – 20. August 2007
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Famous Leona Helmsley Quotes

“We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.”

Leona Helmsley

Quoted in New York Times (July 12, 1989)
Quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 11 (July 24, 1989)

“Helmsley would lick the dog, tongue to tongue. It was unhealthy, unnatural.”

Leona Helmsley

Zamfira Sfara, former housekeeper, in August 30, 2007, Daily News, about Leona Helmsley's relationship with her dog Trouble, which received the largest inheritance of Helmsley's heirs, $12 million

“Most Americans, in their sweet innocence, think that class has to do with money. But a glance at Donald Trump and Leona Helmsley will indicate that it has very little to do with money. It has to do with taste and style, and it has to do with the development of those features by acts of character. That was one of my points: to try to separate class from mercantilism or commercialism.”

Leona Helmsley

Paul Fussell, Humanities Interview, 1996

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