Trouble is in Trouble! Leona Helmsley's Dog Receives Death Threats

A Maltese Terrier...

Imagine this. You're a white Maltese Terrier called Trouble. You happen to have Leona Helmsley (she of New York hotels fame) as your owner until she dies earlier this year. As a result, you inherit a whopping $12 million (£5.8 million pounds to you and me) and your future is guaranteed. Or is it?

In spite of having made provision for Trouble, Leona Helmsley may have, inadvertently, cut her pet pooch's life short by leaving her so much money AND for not getting her trained. Trouble enjoys "chef-cooked meals", is groomed regularly and has the best medical care - all adding up to an eye-watering $300,000 a year or £145,000. But but but Trouble has a reputation for biting people - allegedly - and his Mistress had a reputation as the "Queen of Mean", once saying that only "little people pay tax".

What a pair they must have made, Trouble and her Mistress.

In the meantime, as and when Trouble dies, any remaining money from her trustfund will go to the charitable foundations that have already inherited most of the hotel magnate's estate.

Trouble had better be kind to her temporary carers!

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