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Helmsley Cash Doesn't Have to Go to Dogs

Judge nixes late Queen of Mean's mission statement

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 26, 2009 3:03 AM CST

(Newser) – Leona Helmsley's fortune won't be going exclusively to canine charities after all, the New York Times reports. A judge decided yesterday that the famously prickly late hotelier's instruction in her will that all of her $8 billion go toward helping dogs was not binding, clearing...   Read full story »

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