{"id":2951,"date":"2007-12-03T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/youre_the_man_now_dog.html"},"modified":"2007-12-03T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T14:31:07","slug":"youre_the_man_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/youre_the_man_n.html","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re The Man Now, Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/dog_people_in_d.html\">the dog to which Leona Helmsley left $12 million<\/a>, has had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12032007\/news\/regionalnews\/in_dog_nito_in_florida_620997.htm\">flee to Florida under an assumed name for its own protection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The poor little rich bitch has been wintering in Florida after being targeted by death threats up North, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Trouble turned tail from the 28-room Connecticut estate where she had been staying after her caretakers received approximately two dozen threats against the petite pooch, who became a celebrity earlier this year after Helmsley died and left her a $12 million trust fund.<\/p>\n<p>The dog &#8212; under an assumed name &#8212; was flown by private plane with her security team to a Helmsley property in the Sarasota area about two months ago, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>John Codey, the Helmsley executive in charge of the pooch&#8217;s trust fund, said Trouble is being well taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>He estimated the cost of her upkeep &#8212; including security, medical care and grooming &#8212; to be well over $300,000 a year. The Maltese chows down on meals prepared by chefs.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>He said that the 4 1\/2-pound pooch has a rotating security team and used an alias when she flew out of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had problems keeping her identity confidential, and we had to change her name even to take her on the aircraft. We called her Bauble instead of Trouble,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trouble, the dog to which Leona Helmsley left $12 million, has had to flee to Florida under an assumed name for its own protection: The poor little rich bitch has been wintering in Florida after being targeted by death threats up North, The Post has learned. Trouble turned tail from the 28-room Connecticut estate where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}