{"id":2975,"date":"2007-12-09T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/12\/if_any_animal_can_have_deep_pockets_its_this_one.html"},"modified":"2007-12-09T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T20:12:02","slug":"if_any_animal_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/if_any_animal_c.html","title":{"rendered":"If Any Animal Can Have Deep Pockets It&#8217;s This One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who would represent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/youre_the_man_n.html\">a dog<\/a> in a suit but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/12\/09\/2007-12-09_excaretaker_sues_leona_helmsleys_dog-2.html\">someone will have to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Daily News caught up to Leona Helmsley&#8217;s multimillionaire Maltese as she went out for a stroll in sunny Sarasota, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting a festive red bandana and a brightly patterned leash, the feisty four-legged princess frolicked under palm trees and alongside a lake with an unknown caretaker.<\/p>\n<p>It was a rare sighting of the late Queen of Mean&#8217;s pampered pooch, who inherited $12 million when Helmsley died at the age of 87 in August &#8212; the largest bequest in Helmsley&#8217;s $4 billion will.<\/p>\n<p>The fluffy white furball has been in hiding since then, whisked to Florida on a private plane this fall to escape death threats that dogged her at Helmsley&#8217;s lavish Connecticut spread.<\/p>\n<p>But trouble is still brewing for the 8-year-old pooch, whose luxurious lifestyle costs $300,000 a year for security, grooming and chef-prepared meals served on a silver tray.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Helmsley&#8217;s ex-housekeeper Zamfira Sfara, 48, sued to get her hands on Trouble&#8217;s bone-anza, claiming the dog mauled her repeatedly when she worked for Helmsley in 2004.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who would represent a dog in a suit but someone will have to: The Daily News caught up to Leona Helmsley&#8217;s multimillionaire Maltese as she went out for a stroll in sunny Sarasota, Fla. Sporting a festive red bandana and a brightly patterned leash, the feisty four-legged princess frolicked under palm trees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","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=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}