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\xa0Leona Helmsley referred to herself as the queen of the palace, but her terrible personality earned her a more apt nickname -- the queen of mean. She and her husband were rich beyond most peoples\u2019 imaginations. They stayed that way in part thanks to savvy real estate investing, and to tactics that were illegal at worst and immoral at best. But when Leona finally stiffed the wrong contractor, her luck began to crumble.\n
\n\nThen Kristin tells us about heiress Sunny von Bulow, who had the bad fortune of marrying the wrong man. When she married Claus von Bulow, Sunny was smitten. But the pair were a bad match. Sunny came to their marriage with a tremendous fortune. Sunny\u2019s money was a sore spot for Claus, and Claus\u2019s infidelity was a sore spot for Sunny. By the late 70s, the pair seemed headed for divorce. Then Sunny slipped into a sudden coma. She recovered, only to slip into another one for good.\n
\n\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n
\n\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:\n\u201cThe Claus Von Bulow Case\u201d by Mark Gribben for the Crime Library\n\u201cSunny von Bulow\u201d entry on Wikipedia\n
\n\nIn this episode, DP pulled from:\nNY Times article by Edin Nemi \u201cLeona Helmsley, Hotel Queen, Dies at 87\u201d\nTime Magazine \u201cTop 10 Tax Dodgers\u201d\nThe New Yorker article by Michael Schulman \u201cHer Majesty\u201d\nThe Leona Helmsley Movie \u201cThe Queen of Mean\u201d\n\u201cLeona Helmsley\u201d on Wikipedia