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- <text id=92TT0828>
- <title>
- Apr. 20, 1992: The Queen Checks In
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Apr. 20, 1992 Why Voters Don't Trust Clinton
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 103
- The Queen Checks In
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- <p>By Michael Quinn/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> "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.
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- </body></article>
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