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A reader, on the Leona pics

Gawker · 02/07/03 11:42AM

"Christ, make-up artists must only be for little people, huh? Or mirrors for that matter."

Letters to the Editor

Gawker · 02/07/03 10:09AM

For the love of Pete, stop running pictures of Leona Helmsley. The earlier ones are seared on my retinas, so really, there's no need...

Gossip roundup

Gawker · 02/07/03 09:23AM

· City Club hotelier Jeff Klein says, "I wholeheartedly support Leona [Helmsley]and I'm gay!...I want to start a Leona Helmsley support group." [Page Six]
· Toni Morrison on the mayor's anti-smoking provisions: "This is a one-term mayor." [Page Six]
· Graydon Carter is about to be inundated with Latino books and educational materials as part of a campaign against Dame Edna's humor column last month which suggested that the only reason to learn Spanish was to talk to your help or leaf blower. [Page Six]
· Busta Rhymes ordered a Courvoisier the other night at Sessa on West 23rd. Thinking the bar would comp the drink, he protested when the bartender asked him for $30. Said Sessa owner Stratis Morfogen, "I didn't hear you sing, 'Pass the Courvoisier for free' in your song." Ben Elliot brags that his new concierge service, Quintessentially, once delivered a drum kit to a yacht moored in Monaco harbor during a party for the Grand Prix. [NY Daily News]

Leona Helmsley: "I see gay people"

Gawker · 01/22/03 06:40AM

Psycho old windbag Notorious hotelier Leona Helmsley is accusing everyone from Tom Cruise to Donald Trump to her own lawyers of being gay behind her back. And she doesn't like it one bit! Hell hath no fury like a woman who isn't getting laid when she suspects other people are.
Leona's wild Cruise slur [NY Post]