Anybody want to take care of a homeless dog?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Lorizael


Hm? That's billions of dollars that could be going to help those less fortunate than her. Will you contribute that much to your fellow man?

She devoted $3 million to herself (upkeep of grave). That's more ****ed up than giving it to her dog. It should all go to the government.

[Lorizael]

A fair share of the family inheritance? It's her money. She's not obligated to pass it on after her death. She should give it to the people and organizations she wants to give it to. If her family doesn't like what she wants, that's too bad; they have their own lives to live.

Also, three million for her grave versus billions for a charity. Which wins?

[Zkribbler]

I wonder what the effect would be if there was a 100% tax on any part of an estate exceeding $1,000,000? That is, a person could leave $1M to his heirs tax free, but after that, the goverment gloms onto any excess.

[Lancer]

After they make more than a million the rich would flake off...maybe.

[Zkribbler]

You think Leona would have flaked out if she knew she couldn't leave $12 million to her dog?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Lorizael
A fair share of the family inheritance? It's her money. She's not obligated to pass it on after her death. She should give it to the people and organizations she wants to give it to. If her family doesn't like what she wants, that's too bad; they have their own lives to live.

Also, three million for her grave versus billions for a charity. Which wins?

I promise you that she was a controling *****. When you have a ***** like this who inherited money from her family they try to control the family and if anyone disagrees with her or doesn't do what she wants them to do she cuts them out of the will. **** that, she just inherited the money anyway, and she uses the money to **** her family.

Also, $3million for a dead person is outrageous. Dead people should have nothing. Dogs should have nothing. Your opinion is incredible.

You should be thrown from a helicopter

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Kidicious
I promise you that she was a controling *****. When you have a ***** like this who inherited money from her family they try to control the family and if anyone disagrees with her or doesn't do what she wants them to do she cuts them out of the will. **** that, she just inherited the money anyway, and she uses the money to **** her family.

Uh, she didn't inherit the money. She was the daughter of Polish immigrants. She made her own money, married Helmsley, and made more money with him. Also, who cares if she's a bad a person?

Also, $3million for a dead person is outrageous. Dead people should have nothing. Dogs should have nothing. Your opinion is incredible.

Correct. It's pretty stupid. But it's small potatoes compared to the billions she's putting into the charity trust. It's her money, hers to do with as she pleases. She doesn't have to give any of it to anyone, yet she is choosing to give billions to charity. Who cares if she's a bad person? Who cares if a few million is left doing something stupid? Billions to charity - how many other people can do that?

You should be thrown from a helicopter

Fez said this was more passion.

[Wezil]

NEW YORK (AP) - It seems trouble is following Trouble, Leona Helmsley's beloved pooch.

The late hotelier left the eight-year-old Maltese a sum of US$12 million and asked her brother to see to it that her pampered canine live out her life in the lap of luxury.

But apparently that brother, Alvin Rosenthal, to whom Helmsley left $15 million and a percentage of her charitable trust, is not interested.

The New York Post, citing an unidentified source, reported Tuesday that Rosenthal, 80, expressed no interest in caring for Trouble. Whether her grandson David Panzirer, Helmsley's second choice, would step in was not known.

A message left Tuesday for an A. Rosenthal in Manhattan was not immediately returned. Someone answering the phone at Panzirer's home in Westchester said he was not home.

The dog is currently living at the Helmsley's Connecticut estate, being cared for by staffers at the 28-room mansion.

It was also Helmsley's wish that Trouble someday be interred with her at the Helmsley mausoleum at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

But that isn't to be either. The cemetery says state law forbids animal remains to be buried in human graveyards. Helmsley died last month at age 87.

An even bigger legal headache could turn out to be Trouble's huge $12 million inheritance.

Helmsley's former housekeeper claims the dog bit her numerous times during her three-month job with the hotel queen, and now she wants a bite of that money.

The housekeeper, Zamfira Sfara, 48, had sued her employer in 2004 over one of those bites, but lost the case when a judge ruled Helmsley was protected from liability under the Workers Compensation Law.

Sfara's son, Remus Pop, told The New York Times this week that his mother was asking lawyers to look at going after Trouble's inheritance.

"That is the next step," Pop told the Times. "That dog got money. That money is going to be taken away from that dog."

[DaShi]

The more money you've got. . .

[Zkribbler]

The housekeeper, Zamfira Sfara, 48, had sued her employer in 2004 over one of those bites, but lost the case when a judge ruled Helmsley was protected from liability under the Workers Compensation Law.

Sfara's son, Remus Pop, told The New York Times this week that his mother was asking lawyers to look at going after Trouble's inheritance.

What part of "You lose!" doesn't she understand?

[Wezil]

But she's not suing the employer again. This time she's after the dog.