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...repentance is foremost in my mind in every waking moment and its intensity increases with the passing of every day," writes Leona Helmsley in an uncharacteristically groveling letter to a New York federal judge. The missive goes on to contend that Helmsley, the prominent hotel queen who is serving a four-year sentence for evading $1.2 million in federal income taxes, should be released as soon as possible from the prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she has been studying for a high school-equivalency diploma. An expected favorable ruling by the judge, perhaps this week, would allow Helmsley to rejoin...
...Helmsley's plea for mercy is a masterly exercise in fawning self-promotion. It includes details of the good works she would do during her parole, newspaper editorials calling for her release, doctors' reports on her allegedly failing health and even letters from well-wishers, including one man who offers to distribute buttons, bumper stickers and lawn signs emblazoned with the words FREE LEONA. It was presented in court by Helmsley's lawyer with the aid of a kind of professional called a sentencing consultant, one of a growing breed of specialists who counsel convicted offenders on how to avoid...
Dershowitz said that his highly publicized cases his list of past clients includes Klaus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley and Mia Farrow--actually contribute to his classes. "I teach Tyson in my Criminal Law class; we will be studying rape during the next few weeks," he said...
Aiming to "lay to rest the rumor that Adams is becoming sober," Professor of English Marjorie Garber introduced Phillips, who has appeared at the Helmsley Palace and on a variety of talk shows...
...took Phillips a year to deal with the idea of performing as a woman, he said, but finally he accepted the role and opened at the Helmsley Palace...