A barking mad pounds 4bn in dog will; INHERITANCE.

A BILLIONAIRESS dubbed the Queen of Mean has left most of her fortune to a dogs charity.

Miserly mi·ser·ly
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious.

miser·li·ness n.

Adj. 1. Leona Helmsley signed away pounds 4billion to set up a trust for canine care before she died aged 87.

And the American's own pampered pooch was also set to get pounds 6million.

But her Maltese terrier's inheritance has been cut to pounds 1million after her family claimed she was mentally unbalanced when she wrote her will.

Now advisers are wrangling over her instructions for the doggie trust.

Mrs Helmsley also ordered her tomb in Sleepy Hollow, New York

For other uses, see Sleepy Hollow.

Sleepy Hollow is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. Known as North Tarrytown from 1874 through 1997, it was officially renamed in March 1997. state, to be "acid-washed or steam-cleaned" every year.

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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	Jul 3, 2008
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