Tag Archives: Leona Helmsley

Pet Charities Lose: Where There’s a Will But No Way

By Edie Jarolim | Published: May 6, 2011
Photo by David Rentas/NY Post The late hotel heiress Leona Helmsley may have been known as the “Queen of Mean,” but she had many fans in the animal welfare community, including such influential pet charities as the ASPCA, The Humane Society of the United States, and Maddie’s Fund. Sadly, the combined clout of those groups [...]
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Pet peeve: Second-guessing dog gifts

By Edie Jarolim | Published: December 26, 2009
According to an informal survey on About.com’s Veterinary Medicine blog — sorry if you didn’t vote yet and this is a spoiler — 62% of pet owners said “Of course” they bought their pets presents for the holidays. That doesn’t surprise me. I’ve found, however, that those who don’t share their lives with a pet [...]
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Health Insurance for Pets? Hell, Yes!

By Edie Jarolim | Published: September 5, 2009
Pet health insurance is one of those topics that pushes buttons with people who think that pets are overindulged — you know, like the executors of Leona Helmsley’s estate who decided that they knew better where her money should go after she died than she did. Human health insurance is a hot button topic these [...]
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Dogs shouldn’t suffer for Leona’s sins

By Edie Jarolim | Published: August 16, 2009
Leona Helmsley is a public relations nightmare. Notoriously high-handed, she was dubbed the “Queen of Mean” by employees at the hotel empire her husband, Harry, built. She famously remarked, “Only the little people pay taxes” — before she went to jail for tax evasion. In her will, she left bupkis to two of her grandchildren. [...]
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