Helmsley was born Leona Mindy Rosenthal in upstate New York and grew up in Brooklyn.

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The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.

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Forbes has chronicled Helmsley's feud with the other egomaniacal real estate mogel in New York, Donald Trump.

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