STATE OF NEW YORK ) ) ss: COUNTY OF NEW YORK ). Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, New York, containing the remains of my mother, Ida Rosenthal my father, Morris Rosenthal, my sister, Sylvia Roman, and my brother-in-law, Irving Roman (collectively (i), (ii) and (iii) shall be referred to as the Final Resting Places). A jury agreed and ordered Mrs. Helmsley to pay Bell $11,200,000 in damages. Leona Helmsley, 'queen of mean,' dies at . She was the subject of an unflattering television special; a 1990 television film, Leona Helmsley: The Queen Ruffino, originally employed to assist Harry through the Hospitality Management Services arm, said that Leona fired him on several occasions for refusing to sign the bills, only for Harry to usually tell him to ignore her and come back to work. [44] The courts have ruled that the trust is not legally bound to wishes separate from the trust documents. ", "Over the last number of years," Trump wrote, "I have watched as you have virtually destroyed my friend and a once-great and respected man, Harry Helmsley. HELMSLEY--Leona. Leona Helmsley in 2003. [28], Helmsley's new lawyer, retained to appeal the judgment, was Alan Dershowitz. Leona had wanted to give the dog to her brother Alvin, but he didnt want it. At trial a former housekeeper recounted that Helmsley had once told her: We dont pay taxes. By then, however, the trial was already highlighting her abusive and micromanaging behavior towards family members, employees, contractors and even senior executives. She vented about jail conditions and promptly asked for a dollar to buy a bag of popcorn from the vending machine. their hotel and real-estate empire to provide themselves with such extravagances as a $1 million marble dance floor above a swimming pool, a $45,000 silver clock, a $210,000 mahogany card table, a $130,000 stereo She may not have been a perfect woman, but she certainly was memorable. (1) If my brother ALVIN ROSENTHAL survives me, I leave the sum of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) to him. All of my funeral expenses, last illness expenses, and estate administration expenses shall be paid from my residuary estate. the families of firefighters after 9/11, according to Mr. Rubenstein. The case was dismissed. As Frankel writes in the last line of the book, All in all, in the good luck lottery that floats unpredictable in the cosmos, I hit the jackpot.. Should the provisions of such trust under this paragraph A be inconsistent or be in conflict with any such section, regulation, or administrative pronouncement, as issued from time to time, then such section, regulation or administrative pronouncement shall be deemed to override and supersede the provisions which are set forth herein.