New York's Helmsley to rest in $1.4 mln mausoleum

Source: Reuters

New York's Helmsley to rest in $1.4 mln mausoleum
Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:13pm ET147



By Daniel Trotta

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York real estate queen Leona Helmsley will be lavishly laid to rest in a mausoleum worth $1.4 million -- more than the average Manhattan apartment.

The billionaire hotelier, who was famously quoted as saying "only little people pay taxes" and who later went to prison for tax evasion, died on Monday at age 87.

She will be entombed at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery north of New York City where more than 40,000 people including captains of industry and common immigrants are buried, said Phil Zegarelli, the mayor of Sleepy Hollow, population 10,000.

The wooded hillside with river views is the final resting home of industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie and Walter Chrysler as well as labor leader Samuel Gompers and writer Washington Irving, author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."



Cher

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Too bad.

after all....

I do wonder if she ever made any kind of turnaround late in life...:shrug:

millions of dollars mainly in New York. She gave 5 million each to the firefighters after 9-11 and to the victims of Katrina.

Leona was not all bad.

When he dead she sued her for his estate. She broke that woman with that law suit.

There's not enough money in the world that creature could give to charity that erases how hateful she was.

that she donated 5 million dollars to the New York Police and Firefighters' Widow and Children's Benefit Fund after 9/11. Also, she apparently paid to have the Empire State Building lit up in lavender for Gay Pride Week every year since 1990.

There usually is a "flip side" to most people...

Makes me wonder what Donald Trump's mausoleum will look like.

Hekate

How many kids would that feed.

Edit to fix typo

money she stole from underpaid staff, she still didn't get to take it with her.

I hope she realized all that on her deathbed.

... may the headless horseman gallop with her soul.....