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The Accidental Philanthropist: From A Bronx Stickball Lot to Manhattan Courtrooms and Steering Leona Helmsley's Billions by Sandor Frankel

• The Accidental Philanthropist: From A Bronx Stickball Lot to Manhattan Courtrooms and Steering Leona Helmsley's Billions
• Sandor Frankel
• Page: 360
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• ISBN: 9781510762855
• Publisher: Skyhorse

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The True Story of an Extraordinary Journey from the Bronx to the Helm of the $5 Billion Helmsley Charitable Trust, Doling Out Unimaginable Amounts of Money for the Good of the World. The author met his client in the prison’s visitors’ room:  he, the lawyer, and she, his client, now being patted down by a guard following the first night of a four-year sentence.  Identified here by an inmate number, she was known worldwide:  the notorious Leona Helmsley, owner of a gargantuan real estate portfolio; the woman who had reputedly scoffed “Only the little people pay taxes;” the “queen of mean” whom Newsweek described as “rhymes with rich.”     Wolfing down popcorn the author bought from the prison vending machine, she was one of the most maligned people on the planet.  What he saw, though, was a frightened 71-year-old inmate, alone and in need of something altogether absent from her life:  someone she could trust. In her eyes, he was perhaps the closest thing.  Two years earlier, he had joined her legal team following her conviction for tax crimes.  Just two days before, in her sumptuous Manhattan penthouse, she ferociously fired one lawyer and the others quit. He was the last man standing. After her conviction, the author handled a galaxy of lawsuits she faced.  In time, she asked him to step beyond his litigation brief, and he became her consigliere. He now had to deal with the countless people trying to dip a pinky or a shovel into her fortune.  She also saddled him with a host of personal issues, some sufficiently urgent (in her view) to warrant 3:00 a.m. calls asking if he knew where a certain male friend of hers might be, and occasionally firing him and then checking in as if nothing had happened.      She asked him to perform many legal tasks for which he was unqualified, interpreting each of his disclaimers of expertise as proof of his ability—and ultimately tasked him with drawing up a will for her.  She named him as one of her executors, charged with overseeing and liquidating her multi-billion dollar estate, and also one of the trustees of a charitable trust she would fund “to improve lives...around the world.” That is how, on Leona Helmsley’s death in 2007, the author became a steward of her $5 billion fortune, which he and his co-trustees were duty-bound to give away to causes and recipients they alone would determine.    Little in his life had prepared him for such a role.  He grew up in a lower middle-class section of the Bronx, wound up at Harvard Law School, and built a successful career as a trial lawyer. His clients ran the gamut of the wronged and wronging, including headline names—Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Bill Moyers, Barry Manilow, Don King, Brooke Shields, Cyndi Lauper—and ordinary people suing their partners, colleagues, neighbors, friends, competitors, or family.   But overseeing perhaps the largest private real estate empire in the country, selling all those properties (including the Empire State Building) and the assorted bonds, diamonds, and other playthings of the rich, and choosing the goals of a vast charitable trust funded with those sales’ proceeds, was something else altogether.  He had to figure out the operating instructions for these new responsibilities on his own, along with equally at-sea co-trustees he barely knew.  He tasted the nectar of instant popularity, and is incontrovertible proof that when you control billions of dollars, you become wittier, funnier, far more profound than you’ve ever been, and always worth listening to.  Friends, pseudo-friends, former friends, would-be friends, quasi friends, friends of friends—everyone comes knocking. The Accidental Philanthropist tells how all this happened.  

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