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PEOPLE, Page 103The Queen Checks In
By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
"I wouldn't be treated like another room number," decreed
LEONA HELMSLEY in an imperious ad for one of her Manhattan
hotels. Yet this week the 71-year-old symbol of '80s avarice
becomes another number in federal prison as she begins a
four-year stretch for tax fraud (barring a successful final
appeal). In last-ditch efforts to stay out of jail, she sought
sympathy clad in a bathrobe during a Barbara Walters interview,
as celebrity solicitor Alan Dershowitz argued in court that she
was convicted on forged documents. The judge was unmoved. "It's
an Al Capone sentence," says Dershowitz, calling the severe
sentence punishment for Helmsley's boss-from-hell image.