text: Lauren Bacall Bequeathed $10,000 for Care of Beloved Dog Sophie 
   
   Now that's a lot of Beggin' Strips! 
   
   Lauren Bacall, who died Aug. 12 at the age of 89, had an estate worth more than $26 million, and the legendary movie star made sure to provide for her beloved dog, Sophie. According to papers filed Friday in Manhattan Surrogate's Court, the actress set aside $10,000 for the care for her Papillon. 
   
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   The New York Daily News reports that Bacall, who died at her Manhattan home after suffering a stroke, specified in her 2013 will that her son, actor Sam Robards, would care for the pooch. To do so, she gave him five figures to cover the canine costs. 
   
   The majority of Bacall's sizable estate, which includes her apartment in the famed Dakota building (where John Lennon lived and died), is to be split between her three children: Leslie Bogart, Stephen Bogart, and doggie handler Robards. Beyond that, she gave $250,000 to each of her six grandchildren, and two of her employees also received monetary sums (Maria Santos was given $20,000; Ilsa Hernandez was left $15,000). 
   
   Bacall, who had a legendary love affair with her first husband Humphrey Bogart and was also married to Jason Robards, was a lifelong dog lover. 
   
   "I was always a dog yearner," the New York native told Glenn Close in a 2008 interview for FetchDog.com. "I didn't have a dog growing up in the city with a working mother. As an only child, I yearned for someone to talk to. When I was 16, we got a champagne-colored Cocker Spaniel and named him Droopy. From the first moment, [Droopy] was very possessive of me. All my dogs have been possessive of me." 
   
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   From then on, Bacall always had dogs and Sophie was her special companion later in life. She was photographed walking the dog near her Upper West Side apartment and even brought the pup on the red carpet at the Toronto and Berlin film festivals. And when she was promoting her reissued memoir By Myself and Then Some in 2005, Sophie accompanied the star to book signings. 
   
   Bacall leaving money for the care of her dog isn't that unusual — for celebrities or everyday folks who want to provide for their faithful furry friends. However, hotel magnate Leona Helmsley, who was dubbed "the queen of mean," made major headlines when she left a whopping $12 million to her Maltese, Trouble, in 2007. Three years later, fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who committed suicide, left $82,000 of his $26 million estate to his trio of dogs: Minter, Juice, and Callum. 
   
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   Celebrities love their cats, too. When Dusty Springfield, the British singer of "Son of a Preacher Man" died from breast cancer in 2009, her last will and testament included several provisions for her 13-year-old feline, Nicholas. The cat was to only be fed baby food imported to England from the United States, live in a 7-foot indoor tree house, and be serenaded to sleep with a stereo system playing Springfield's hits. The most quirky stipulation of all? That the cat be "married" to a female cat of Springfield's friend. 
   
   After hearing that, Bacall leaving $10,000 for the care of her dog is totally normal. ||||| Silver screen legend Lauren Bacall left behind an estimated $26.6 million estate — and made sure her little dog Sophie would have plenty of bones in her golden years. 
   
   Bacall left $10,000 to one of her sons to ensure Sophie enjoyed the lifestyle to which the papillon had become accustomed. With that chunk of change, Sophie won’t be eating store-brand dog food, but the pooch also wouldn’t be Trouble — as in the dog of late real estate magnate Leona Helmsey, who was left $12 million in her 2007 will. 
   
   Bacall’s will, signed last fall, also remembered two of her employees — Ilsa Hernandez was left $15,000 and Maria Santos was given $20,000, according to papers filed Friday in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court. 
   
   The actress, who passed away in her Manhattan home last week at age 89, left $250,000 to each of her grandsons. The rest of her sizable estate — including her apartment in the Dakota building on the Upper West Side and its contents — are supposed to be split between her three children, Leslie Bogart, Stephen Humphrey Bogart and Sophie’s keeper, actor Sam Robards. 
   
   She directed that money from a trust left to her by her late husband — legendary “Maltese Falcon” star Humphrey Bogart — be divvied up between the three as well. 
   
   Bacall, who passed away last week, left behind an estate worth $26.6 million. (Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) 
   
   She also passed on the rights to her likeness and her movie and book royalties to her kids, and named them the executors of her estate — but asked for one thing in return. 
   
   “I request that my children respect my wish to keep private certain personal letters, writings, diaries and other papers or memorabilia,” the filing says. 
   
   Born Betty Jane Perske in The Bronx and raised by her divorced mom, the icon of screen and style won two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe and an honorary Oscar over her eight-decade career. 
   
   She got her big break at age 19, when she was cast in Howard Hawks’ classic “To Have and Have Not,” opposite the much older Bogart. 
   
   Bacall was also generous toward two of her employees, leaving one $15,000 and the other $20,000. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) 
   
   She married the “Casablanca” star a year later, and they went on to make three other movies together — “The Big Sleep," "Dark Passage" and "Key Largo" — before Bogart’s death in 1957. They had two children together. 
   
   Outspoken and brassy, Bacall continued making movies and performing on Broadway, where she won Tony Awards for her roles in "Applause" in 1970 and "Woman of the Year" in 1981. She didn't score an Oscar nomination until after she'd spent 50 years in the business — she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Barbra Streisand's "The Mirror has Two Faces." She lost to actress Juliette Binoche. 
   
   After Bogart’s death from esophagal cancer, Bacall had a relationship with another legend, crooner Frank Sinatra, but he broke it off. She later married actor Jason Robards, a two-time Oscar winner, in 1961. They had a son together, and divorced after eight stormy years of marriage. 
   
   bross@nydailynews.com ||||| Late screen siren Lauren Bacall left the bulk of her $26.6 million fortune to family, carving out a special $10,000 bequest for her beloved dog, Sophie, and directing her three children to keep her personal papers private, according to her will. 
   
   The estate documents, filed in a rush order at Manhattan Surrogate’s Court on Friday because the family plans to auction off her artwork this fall, evenly split her property among children Sam Prideaux Robards, of Manhattan, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, of Naples, Fla., and Leslie Bogart, of Santa Monica, Calif. 
   
   “I request that my children respect my wish to keep private certain personal letters, writings, diaries and other papers or memorabilia,” Bacall wrote in the 10-page will written last September. 
   
   The honorary-Oscar winner also named all of her children as executors of her estate. 
   
   The first item in her will was the $10,000 for son Sam to care for her papillon pooch, Sophie. Bacall and Sophie were often seen by neighbors walking outside her $9 million apartment at The Dakota on Central Park West. 
   
   After taking care of the pup, ­Bacall also left gifts of $250,000 to each of her grandsons, Calvin ­Robards and Sebastian Robards. 
   
   Bacall said she wanted that money to be used for college. They’ll have access to the rest of the cash when they turn 30. 
   
   Household staffer Maria Santos received $20,000 while another employee, Isla Hernandez, got $15,000. Hernandez, a Honduran immigrant who worked as the ­actress’s maid for the past 14 years, was shocked by the news of her $15,000 bequest. 
   
   “Oh, my God!” Hernandez exclaimed in an interview with The Post. “It’s wonderful. I never thought she would do something for me.” Hernandez admitted with a chuckle that her longtime boss was both “nice” and “demanding.” 
   
   Her estate is comprised of her co-op apartment, royalties, tangibly personal property, cash and the remainder of a trust ex-husband Humphrey Bogart left her. 
   
   Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske in The Bronx, died this month from a stroke at the age of 89. 
   
   She wanted people to remember her not only for her first famous husband, actor Bogart, but also for her second, lesser known spouse, actor Jason Robards Jr., even though the couple’s marriage ended in divorce. 
   
   “My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I’m sure,” she told Vanity Fair in a 2011 interview. 
   
   “I’ll never know if that’s true. If that’s the way, that’s the way it is,” she told the magazine.
target: – Papillion Sophie has lived a pampered life, but that doesn't have to end now that her famous owner—Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall—has died. According to estate papers filed last week, Bacall left $10,000 to her son Sam Robards for Sophie's care and upkeep, Page Six reports. This bequeath isn't a surprise, considering Bacall called herself a "dog yearner" in a 2008 interview, Us reports. "I didn't have a dog growing up in the city with a working mother. As an only child, I yearned for someone to talk to," she said. She gave Sophie quite a glitzy life attending book signings and film festivals. Bacall didn't ignore her human family: The New York Daily News reports her $26.6 million estate was mostly split among her three children; her grandkids reportedly got $250,000 each. And two of her employees also received $20,000 and $15,000, respectively. Considering other famous four-legged heirs, Sophie's 10 grand isn't shocking: Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her Maltese and Alexander McQueen left $82,000 to his three dogs. But the oddest may be Dusty Springfield, who gave orders that her cat be serenaded with her own music and "marry" another cat.