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Jury selection for her trial on racketeering and other charges carrying up to 50 years in prison started last week in the same courtroom that saw the bravura performances of Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. For sheer Wagnerian greed, the tale of Imelda could put the Hotel Queen to shame. Jurors will have to decide whether a wife always knows what her husband is up to -- in this case, deposed President Ferdinand Marcos, who died last September. "The Marcoses were masters of deception," said prosecutors. "They elevated three- card monte ((a form of shell game)) to an art form." Scoffed...
After withstanding so much abuse, he performs without giving a damn. All we are seeing is an overextended ego a la Leona Helmsly...
Tears failed to save hotelier Leona Helmsley, 69, the "Queen of Mean," who once sneered that only "little people pay taxes." Imploring Federal Judge John M. Walker Jr. not to imprison her for tax evasion, Helmsley wept, "I am more humiliated and ashamed than anybody could ever imagine." The judge was unmoved. Her attempt to charge off as business expenses items ranging from a $12.99 girdle to a $1.2 million pool enclosure for her mansion was the "product of naked greed," he declared. Helmsley is appealing the verdict, but as she left the courtroom, one of the little people...
...family and friends may not understand why someone would walk away from a profession that offers status and financial security. And many lawyers may be uncertain about leaving the cocoon of practice. "It's hard to rip the label off and say, 'I'm no longer a lawyer,' " observes Leona Vogt, president of Vogt Associates, a consulting firm for attorneys in Cambridge, Mass...
Novak was prepared to dislike Reagan, assuming she was cold, authoritarian, power hungry. Yet, he says, "I never encountered that 'off with your head' woman I heard about. She's not Imelda Marcos, Leona Helmsley or Marie Antoinette, and some people still don't understand that." Over eight months, Novak taped 250 hours of conversation at the White House, in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, at the Reagan ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., and, of course, over the phone. Reagan offered candid recollections of the day her husband was shot, her hospitalization for cancer and her mother...