NEW YORK—Nine years after Leona Helmsley died, a battle over her estate erupted Thursday in a New York court. The state attorney general said a $100 million fee sought by the estate’s executors, including two of Mrs. Helmsley’s grandchildren, is “astronomical” and should be cut, potentially by about 90%. 
 
 Mrs. Helmsley, a onetime owner of a sprawling property portfolio that included the Empire State Building, left most of her $4.78... ||||| A $6.3 million grant to the Iowa Department of Health will be used to help save the lives of people suffering cardiac arrest across Iowa. 
 
 The grant comes from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. 
 
 
 
 Leona Helmsley was a well-known New York City businesswoman who earned the nickname the "Queen of Mean." 
 
 
 
 Iowa health officials said the grant will help purchase LUCAS 2 Chest Compression System devices in ambulances and hospitals across the state, and to provide training to use them. The device provides automated chest compression allowing for long and more consistent CPR delivery. 
 
 
 
 Each device costs $10,000. Studies show the devices help improve CPR outcomes anywhere from 5-50 percent.
– How much should you get paid for handling the estate of a dead billionaire? Apparently $100 million—or more than $6,400 per hour—If that estate belongs to Leona Helmsley, the Wall Street Journal reports. “By any definition, this hourly rate is exorbitant, unreasonable, and improper,” states a filing from the New York Attorney General's Office. The executors of Helmsley's will—two grandchildren, a lawyer, and a business advisor—defended their request for the "astronomical" fee stating they "faced enormous risks" while increasing the estate's value. Helmsley—a famous New York City property owner who KCCI points out was known as the "Queen of Mean"—was worth $4.78 billion when she died in 2007, the Journal reports. Helmsley left most of her wealth to charity, the Journal reports. And the Attorney General's Office has the power to make sure charities aren't getting fleeced by "excessive and unreasonable expenses," such as the fees being demanded by her estate's executors. The state is hoping to cut the requested fee by up to 90%. This isn't the first controversy surrounding Helmsley's estate. Her will left $12 million to her dog—more than two of her grandchildren got. And two other grandchildren who were left out of her will entirely are challenging it. While Helmsley's executors fight for $100 million, Iowa announced this week that $6.3 million from her estate will be going to pay for automated chest compression systems to give cardiac arrest victims around the state a better shot at survival, according to KCCI.