Leona Helmsley, 87, a self-made businesswoman who helped run the $5 billion New York real estate and hotel empire of her third husband before being convicted of federal income-tax evasion, died Aug.

On this day, Dec. 12, 1989, Leona Helmsley, nicknamed the “Queen of Mean” by the press, received a four-year prison sentence, 750 hours of community service, and a $7.1 million tax fraud fine in New ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Leona Helmsley, the hotelier who went to prison as a tax cheat and was reviled as the "queen of mean," died Monday at age 87. Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley, the so-called "Queen of Mean" who was famously quoted as saying "only little people pay taxes" and who later went to prison for tax evasion, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The queen's possessions are going up for public auction -- the so-called Queen of Mean, the late real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley, that is. Sign up here. Christie's auction ...

CHICAGO — Fur coats, designer gowns, plus dozens and dozens of pairs of Ferragamo shoes, are headed to the auction block from real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley's haute couture closets. Collectors ...