521 Round Hill Road - Dunellen Hall - Leona & Harry Helmsley's Greenwich country estate (Greenwich, CT)

Tax records show the owner as Five Twenty One Corp. (hence the street address), In Care of Abe Wolfe, 230 Park Ave., Suite 659, New York, Ny 10169. The 2006 property tax statement shows the current market value of the estate as $10,911,600 with the 2006 property taxes as $84,706.74. Dunellen Hall (often referred to as the Topping House) was built in 1918, at what was then the staggering sum of $1,000,000, by steel and banking tycoon Daniel Grey Reid as a wedding gift for his daughter, Rhea, when she married Henry Topping. It is a 28 room Jacobean mansion set on 26 acres. It was sold by the Toppings in 1950 to Loring Washburn who later declared bankruptcy. In 1963 Dunnellen Hall became the property of a finance and factoring concern. It remained empty for 3 years, until it was bought by a partnership that sold it to Gregg Sherwood Dodge Moran, a one-time showgirl and former wife to an heir to the Dodge automobile fortune. She only owned the estate for 2 years, then sold it for $1,000,000 to financier Jack R. Dick, who in 1971 was indicted by a New York grand jury that he had stolen $840,000 by using phony documents to obtain a loan. He died in 1974 before the case went to trial. Dunellen Hall next passed to an Indian-born owner of oil supertankers named Ravi Tikkoo for $3,000,000 including the furnishings. His wife hated the estate and he sold the estate including the furnishings to the Helmsleys in 1983 for $11,000,000. The Helsmleys added 2 pools--1 outdoor and 1 indoor.
Harry B. Helmsley (March 4, 1909 – January 4, 1997) was a real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States. Part of his company's portfolio at one time included managing the Empire State Building. He had been indicted along with Leona on income tax evasion charges, but it was determined that he was far too ill physically to stand trial and too weak mentally to be capable of assisting his attorneys in his own defense. Mr. Helmsley died of pneumonia at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona, and left his empire ( estimated at $5.5 billion) to his wife Leona.
Leona Mindy Rosenthal Roberts Panzirer Lubin Helmsley (July 4, 1920 - August 20, 2007)passed away at Dunellen Hall of heart failure. Before she married Harry Helmsley, she was married twice. By her first husband, attorney Leo Panzirer, she had a son, Jay (1940-1982). Jay Panzirer had four children. From 1953 until 1960, she was married to garment industry executive Joseph Lubin. She was a billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname "The Queen of Mean." She was convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989 and served 19 months in prison (and two more months in house arrest), after receiving an initial sentence of 16 years.