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Apr 21, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Helmsley estate: $136M to charity, $1M to dogs

Full story: Athens Banner-Herald

Real estate baroness Leona Helmsley's estate gave away $136 million Tuesday to hospitals, foundations and the homeless and left $1 million to animal charities, prompting one advocate to accuse the estate of failing to honor the hotel tycoon's wishes.

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“STOP animal abuse”

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Apr 21, 2009
 
This is deplorable.
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Apr 21, 2009
 
Ralexa wrote:
This is deplorable.
i agree that her wishes to do what she wanted with her money was not carried out. the saving grace though is the fact the money was at least distributed in the USA..what is the point of making a will if it will just be ignored when you die??..or does that only count if you are wealthy?
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Apr 21, 2009
 
This decision is just wrong.
It did not carry out the spirit and direction of the will.
It teaches us that we should donate what we can while we are still capable of writing a check.
Leona certainly had more than enough money to make many more sizable donations to the charities she wanted to support while she was still alive.
Too bad she didn't.
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Jun 19, 2009
 

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she gave plenty to charity and so what she gave some to her dog, that dog never gave her grief like the people around had. if the family is mad then tough, go out and make your own millions and stop waiting for people to die to get a hand out.

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redlipstick wrote:
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i agree that her wishes to do what she wanted with her money was not carried out. the saving grace though is the fact the money was at least distributed in the USA..what is the point of making a will if it will just be ignored when you die??..or does that only count if you are wealthy?
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