Behind Queen of Mean Leona Helmsley, a $5B estate and her dog Trouble

There she stood, draped in an evening gown and dripping in jewels, standing on the on the staircase of New York’s opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel. The advertisement’s tagline: “It’s the only Palace in the world where the Queen stands guard.”

And what a Queen of Mean she was. Leona Helmsley, who married hotel mogul Harry Helmsley in 1972, was the epitome of the “greed is good” ’80s, living high while abusing the staff. As for paying her fair share?