In Popular Culture
- Helmsley was lampooned by Nora Dunn on several episodes of Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s.
- Helmsley was a recurring character in the comic strip Zippy the Pinhead.
- Director Tim Burton stated that Helena Bonham Carter's performance as the Red Queen in the 2010 film Alice in Wonderland was partly based on her.
- One of Spy magazine's most famous "Separated at Birth" pictorials featured Helmsley side-by-side with The Joker as portrayed by Jack Nicholson.
- In Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series), the highschool bully, Libby Chessler is once referred to as "Leona Helmsley".
- In 30 Rock, "Succession", Season 2 Episode 13, Don Geiss (Rip Torn) compares Liz Lemmon with a young Leona Helmsley.
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