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

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.”

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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