What a Creep: Leona Helmsley "The Queen of Mean" (80s NYC Creep)

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What a Creep</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Season 5, Episode 10</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Leona Helmsley</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/176387/8b99db0741083f26b09d8d22103f570d.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="416" /><br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leona Helmsley and her husband Harry Helmsley had a $1.4 billion real estate empire in New York, including the Empire State Building, the Graybar Building, the Flatiron Building, and 26 hotels.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They were also tax-evading billionaires, who often tried to get out of paying people for their work. Leona, in particular, was known as the Queen of Mean, because she would yell at her employees and treated them like crap.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sources include:</span></p> <p><a href= "https://people.com/archive/cover-story-for-the-love-of-money-vol-29-no-17/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">People Magazine</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">from May 2, 1988</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/nyregion/20cnd-helmsley.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The New York Times</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-leona-helmsley-factbox/factbox-five-facts-about-hotelier-leona-helmsley-idUSN2032605320070820"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Reuters</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/09/29/rich-bitch"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The New Yorker</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Helmsley#cite_note-26"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Chicago Sun-Times</span></a></p> <p><a href= "https://abcnews.go.com/US/leona-helmsleys-dog-trouble-richest-world-dies-12/story?id=13810168#:~:text=Trouble%20owed%20her%20coddled%20lifestyle,%2412%20million%2C%20to%20her%20dog.&text=A%20judge%20later%20knocked%20down%20the%20dog's%20inheritance%20to%2