Leona Helmsley, the "Queen of Mean," is coming through for homeless children.

Helmsley and her husband, Harry, will pay $5,000 to replace gifts stolen from a New York shelter over the weekend, said their publicist, Howard J. Rubenstein.And the multimillionaire couple will give $20,000 for more gifts, Rubenstein said.

"Let's make this a great Christmas for them and show them that New Yorkers really care," he quoted Helmsley as saying.

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Helmsley is finishing up a 30-month tax-evasion sentence in home confinement at her Park Lane Hotel.

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