Word: leona
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...just interested in doing what's best for the children," said Dershowitz, who has represented celebrities such as Claus Von Bulow, Michael Tyson and Leona Helmsley. "It needn't become a focus of public concern," he said. But now that Allen has met with the press to "pre-empt the action," said Dershowitz, "everybody is suffering...
...limit the ways to have one. In a test case involving the French abortion pill RU-486, the Justices by a 7-to-2 vote upheld an appellate-court ruling that bars return of the drug to a pregnant woman. U.S. customs agents had seized the pills from Leona Benten, 29, who had legally acquired them abroad. The court left open the question of the constitutionality of the U.S. ban on RU-486. Benten now plans to have a surgical abortion...
Ever since Alan Dershowitz struck out, Leona Helmsley has been pining away in Danbury federal prison. Not for long, if ROBERT BORK has anything to say about it. Judge Bork, a Supreme Court nominee who was spurned in 1987, will argue her tax-fraud case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City at the end of the summer. As Solicitor General for Presidents Nixon and Ford, he spent four years arguing cases before the Supreme Court. But why would a distinguished legal scholar and jurist want to take an assignment like the Helmsley case? Explains...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ SHOULD CHECK OUT HIS CLIENT LIST THESE days. It appears to need a little updating. The famed appellate attorney is denying rumors that he is no longer on the team of hotel queen Leona Helmsley and saying he continues to work behind the scenes for the Queen of Mean, who is now in prison after being convicted of tax evasion. But Milton Gould, who heads Helmsley's new legal effort, bluntly says Dershowitz is out of the picture. "He is not acting for her any longer," Gould says of Dershowitz. "He is not doing anything that I know...
MORALLY CHALLENGED: Mike Milken, John Gotti, Manuel Noriega, Leona Helmsley and every other soul who finds thievery and deceit irresistible...