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Leona Helmsley Earns This Week’s Top Scrooge Posthumously
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by TheBigRuski | August 31, 2007 at 09:51 am
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“But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get it all?
This Week’s Top Scrooge - August 31, 2007
How many church sermons will include the story of Leona Helmsley and her dog, Trouble, this Sunday?
In case you missed it, Trouble…her pet…inherited $12 million. And for good measure, Trouble’s “fortunes” won’t be over even after her life ends. “I direct that when my dog, Trouble, dies, her remains shall be buried next to my remains in the Helmsley mausoleum,” she ordered. And she left another $3 million to ensure that final resting place is well maintained, including money for a yearly wash or steam-cleaning.
Twelve million dollars. That’s two more million dollars than two of her grandchildren are getting combined ($5 million each) and $12 million more than her other two grandchildren are getting…because they are getting zippo as in nada, nothing, and zilch.
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at 14:30 on August 31st, 2007
This story made me laugh when I saw it. I can tell she had a lot of fun with this will when she was making it. Her family must be livid though!
at 18:20 on August 31st, 2007
...oh really? ...I thought maybe she was "dead" serious when she wrote it. Will we ever know? I bet an eyewitness to her thinking would get paid big bucks to reveal her thought process.
at 01:02 on September 1st, 2007
S/he really would!
And I think the seriousness v. fun could go either way but I have a feeling she was being mean and getting a kick out of it.