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Leona Helmsley's dog gives $10M to 'charity'

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June 16, 11:21 AM

by Liz Barrett, Celebrity News Examiner

The Post reports that "Leona Helmsley's pet pooch, Trouble, is going from rich bitch to good dog by throwing a $10 million bone to charity." (We certainly can't improve on that prose.)

Sez the Post:

A Manhattan judge quietly reduced the notoriously ill-tempered canine's $12 million trust fund and signed off on a deal to pay the late billionaire's two disinherited grandchildren $6 million amid allegations that Helmsley wasn't mentally competent when she signed her will.

Trouble now will have to get by for the rest of her life on a measly $2 million.

Helmsley, AKA the Queen of Mean, died at age 87 last August and left her dog a fortune — but she didn't leave a cent to her grandkids, Craig Panzirer and Meegan Panzirer Wesolko. They, of course, said she was out of her mind and made a deal with the executors of her estate that decreased some heirs' inheritance and paid more to others. It's a complicated deal, which you can read more about in the Post, but suffice it to say that the pooch is no longer top dog in the deal.

[Screenshot: NYPost.com]

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