“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

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