Real estate empress Leona Helmsley dies at 87 (The Oregonian)
Real estate empress Leona Helmsley dies at 87 (The Oregonian)
NEW YORK — Leona Helmsley, who ran a $5 billion hotel and real estate empire with her husband but sealed her reputation as the “queen of mean” during her 1989 trial for tax evasion, died Monday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 87.