All the best to my dog
Leona Helmsley died from congestive heart failure at the age of 87. Leona’s dog Trouble got $12 millions and afterlife spot in mausoleum. No one made out better than Trouble – not even Leona’s brother, Alvin Rosenthal, who was left $10 millions. Helmsley had four grandchildren. Two of them each will receive $5 million in trust and $5 million outright, under the condition that they visit their father’s (Helmsley’s only child whom the women outlived) grave site once each calendar year. Her other two grandchildren received nothing.
The sum of $12 millions left to Leona’s dog was subsequently reduced to $2 million less than a year later by a judge.

Marry after me
In 1841, the poet Heinrich Heine married Eugenie Mirat, an uneducated, boorish, and absurdly vain clerk in a Parisian bootshop. Heine’s affection for Eugenie was not without its ambiguities. In his will, Heine left her his whole estate, on one condition: that she remarries. Why? "Because then there will be at least one man," he explained, "who will regret my death."


No Women Admitted
According to the terms of his 1930 will T.M. Zink put aside $100,000 US in a trust that was to be left alone to grow for 75 years. After 75 years the proceeds were to be used to build his misogynistic masterpiece, the Zink Womanless Library. The Womanless Library was to have no books by women authors, no art by female artists, and a decor that would in no way appeal to or be created by women. The Library would not only ban anything by or even about a woman, it would ban women as well, complete with a well placed sign at the entry stating "No Women Admitted."
Zink’s daughter, who had been left only $5 in the will challenged it in court and won. The estate of T. M. Zink ultimately fell into the hands of a woman, his daughter, and the foundation trust for the Zink Womanless Library was never established.

I wish to be home. Standing.
A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing – even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake. Pantoja was found dead Friday underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried Monday. Police are investigating.
Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother’s living room. His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own wake: "He wanted to be happy, standing."

I want into space
Gene Rodenberry, the creator of the Star Trek TV phenomenon, loved space and science fiction so much that he requested that his body be cremated and sent into space. His final wishes were honored and he was carried away from Earth on a Spanish satellite in 1997. His ashes were shot into the atmosphere as the satellite orbited the planet. His wife joined him in space after her death about 10 years later.

So be she smoking!
Samuel Bratt used his will simply to get even. His wife never allowed him to smoke his favorite cigars. When he died in 1960, the embittered Bratt returned the favor. He left her £330,000. To get it, however, she had to smoke five cigars a day.

 

 

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