Playboy Interview: Leona Helmsley

November, 1990

Playboy Interview: Leona HelmsleyThe outdoor orchestra kicks up Eubie Blake's "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and she whirls onto the dance floor in white palazzo pants and a jungle-red organza blouse, her red-white-and-blue ostrich boa beckoning forward the kingpin of Manhattan real estate.Harry Helmsley, rail-straight at 6'3", takes the birthday girl's hand and gamely shuffles his feet, though his once-agile dance form has succumbed to the torpor of the July Fourth heat and a histor...