#Helmsley’s #Maltese: Trouble by the numbers

Leona & Trouble

Trouble

The World, June 11, 2011:  Trouble, the Maltese to whom #Leona Helmsley left millions when she died in 2007, has joined her notorious owner in the afterlife. A look at Trouble's charmed life

         When the "Queen of Mean" died in 2007, she bequeathed her beloved Maltese a whopping $12 million.   After a number of health issues left Trouble blind and sick, the aging pooch passed away in 2010.  Trouble was known to attack the harried staff.                          

          Here, a brief guide, by the numbers, to the life and death of the $12 million dog at age 12:                                                                                    

$2.5 billion -- Helmsley’s estimated worth when she died in 2007.  While leaving Trouble $12 million, Helmsley cut two grandchildren out of her will entirely.                                                                                           $100,000/year: 
Amount of Trouble’s yearly upkeep.       

$8,000/year:  Trouble's grooming

                                   

20 to 30/year:
  Number of death and kidnapping threats reportedly received by Trouble, necessitating a security guard

                                         

 $30 million  
Amount Oprah is reportedly planning on bequeathing to her dogs

       "The stone tells that it covers the white Maltese dog. They called him Bull while he still lived, but now the silent paths of night possess his voice.”  William Tymmes, “Epitaph for a Dog"