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Hotelier Helmsley Dead at 87

'Queen of Mean' learns certainty of death, if not taxes

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 20, 2007 1:21 PM CDT

(Newser) – Leona Helsmley, the notoriously tyrannical real-estate baroness dubbed New York’s “Queen of Mean,” died of heart failure today at 87. The Brooklyn native took the reins of her husband Harry's real-estate empire in the 70s, and soon her name was synonymous with...   Read full story »

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