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We've long wondered about some of the special services that some of the city's best hotels might provide "off the menu," if you catch our drift, wink wink nudge nudge. We'd always assumed that the menu consisted of happy endings and the like, but at Leona Helmsley's Park Lane Hotel—where rooms cost up to $480 per night—the options got much more creative. The night manager and another staffer were allegedly supplying special guests (and undercover cops) with guns and cocaine:

The news shocked guests yesterday at the world-renowned getaway, which claims on its Web site to offer "classical ambience [sic] and service . . . coupled with new-world comfort and convenience."

"It's totally crazy. You wouldn't think it would happen [here]," said Jake Arnold, 22, a salesman from Long Island visiting a friend at the hotel.

Howard Rubenstein, the spokesman for Leona Helmsley and the Helmsley hotel chain, said management "acted promptly to turn in these people. They are appalled at the thought that their employees would stoop to this terrible level."

Maybe they were just doing it because the sight of Leona's face was simply too horrible to bear.
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