Mark Thorson > wrote in news:48A4DEC3.692D7110
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> PeterLucas wrote:
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>> I tried to access that website and got this.........
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>> "Dear User:
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> It was a solid gold bust of Leona Helmsley.
> Probably melted down by now, to pay for
> dog food.
>


At $1,200 a year?? Not very good dog food!!

"Helmsley left the bulk of her estate — estimated at more than $4
billion — to the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust.[17]
She also left her Maltese, Trouble, a $12 million trust fund.[18] This
sum was subsequently reduced to $2 million less than a year later. She
left $15 million for her brother Alvin Rosenthal. Helmsley had four
grandchildren. Two of them each will receive $5 million in trust and $5
million outright, under the condition that they visit their father's
grave site once each calendar year. Her other two grandchildren, Craig
and Meegan Panzirer, received nothing.

It has been alleged that they were omitted from the will because they
failed to name any of their children after her late husband. Her choice
to leave $12m to her white Maltese, Trouble, was branded 3rd in
Fortune's "101 Dumbest Moments in Business" of 2007.[19] In an April 30,
2008 court ruling Manhattan Surrogate Judge Renee Roth reduced the trust
fund for Trouble from $12 million to $2 million with the $10 million
going to Helmsley's charitable foundation.[20] She also left her
chauffeur, Nicholas Celea, $100,000.[21][22]

However, in the April 30 judgment (published only on June 16, 2008),
Manhattan Surrogate Court Judge Reena Roth further ruled Helmsley was
mentally unfit when she executed her will. Hence, the Court, amid
settlement, awarded $4 million to the charity, and $6 million to Craig
and Meegan Panzirer, who were disinherited by the will (if they would
keep silent about their complaint with their grandmother and deliver to
her any documents). 9-year-old Trouble lives in Florida with the Carl
Lekic, general manager of the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel amid receiving
several death threats.[23][24] Lekic, Trouble's caretaker, stated that
$2 million would pay for the dog's maintenance for more than 10 years -
the annual $100,000 for full-time security, $8,000 for grooming and
$1,200 for food. Lekic is paid a $60,000 annual guardian fee."[25]

In addition to $12 million Leona Helmsley left to her pet Maltese,
Trouble, she left instructions that a trust valued at $5 billion to $8
billion be used to benefit dogs.[26]"


*What* an idiot!!!

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


If we are not meant to eat animals,
why are they made of meat?