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...Xers. When it returned the following season it was something else altogether, a dumb-brilliant parody of the soap universe, a show in which women dressed for work as though life were a continual audition for the Howard Stern Show. Heather Locklear was now entrenched as a nasty, libidinal Leona Helmsley-ish landlady in the making, while Sydney the hooker-stripper was chasing her sister Jane's amoral husband Michael...
...believe Ms. Helmsley is charged in the indictment with being a tough bitch." --Gerald Feffer, unsuccessfully defending hotelier Leona Helmsley in her 1989 tax-evasion trial...
Forbes' vaunted optimism, like F.D.R.'s, springs from the security and confidence that seem his birthright. Yet F.D.R.'s smile told Americans that we could face adversity, and triumph. Forbes' smile comes without the challenge. Leona Helmsley once ran hotel ads telling customers not to put up with anything she wouldn't. 'I've never had to make a hard choice," Forbes seems to say, similarly. "Why should...
Locked in a losing battle with embarrassing tabloid headlines -- New York's Daily News dubbed Perelman the king of mean, comparable to Leona Helmsley's queen of the same title -- Perelman's lawyer, Stanley Arkin, did his best to tarnish Tepperman's reputation. Outside the jury's presence, Arkin claimed that Tepperman, after admitting his wife to the Florida nursing home where she is still a resident, began living with Denese Galban, the nurse who once cared for her. Tepperman's lawyers do not dispute his involvement with Galban but insist that the relationship has the blessing of other family...
Never wildly popular, LEONA HELMSLEY has moved further up the list of ignoble Americans, following reports in the New York Daily News that she hasn't been doing her own community service. Helmsley, 74, allegedly had the domestic staff at her Arizona home stuff envelopes and wrap presents for volunteers at a local hospital. Helmsley was convicted of tax evasion in 1989 and served 18 months in prison, but still has to complete 250 hours of community service. Neither she nor the U.S. probation office would comment on the report...