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- There are thought to be a total of 150 works of art in Mrs Marcos's possession, which the authorities are keen to track down.
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Jan 16, 2014 · Passport. Shoes, Jewels, and Monets: The Immense Ill-Gotten Wealth of Imelda Marcos. During their two-decade conjugal dictatorship, as it came to be known, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos...
Dec 23, 2019 · In Lauren Greenfield's documentary The Kingmaker, we see Imelda Marcos and the Marcos family still living the high life 33 years after her downfall.
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Dec 20, 2019 · In a 42-page decision promulgated and released on Thursday, the antigraft court declared 896 pieces of art, including paintings by renowned masters Manet, Cezanne and Van Gogh, as ill gotten and “unlawfully acquired,” and ruled that “the forfeiture of said properties in favor of petitioner Republic is warranted.” ADVERTISEMENT.
Estimates of the alleged ill-gotten wealth of the Marcos family vary, with most sources accepting a figure of about US$5 billion–10 billion for wealth acquired in the last years of the Marcos administration, but with rough extreme estimates of wealth acquired since the 1950s going as high as US$30 billion.
Jan 31, 2020 · IMELDA AND HER SPENDING AND ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH “So you see, the shoes became a joke.” — Imelda on her collection of shoes (The media and authorities place the number at 3,000, Mrs. Marcos places it at 1,000. The number is excessive either way). “And then we’ll have another $100M to play around with.” — archival footage of Imelda ...
Nov 13, 2018 · According to Christie’s, in 1985 Imelda Marcos had given all three works to her former personal secretary, Vilma Bautista, for safekeeping as their grip on power began to slip.
Dec 12, 2016 · Imelda Marcos, shown in her apartment in Manila in 2014, and her husband, Ferdinand E. Marcos, who died in 1989, amassed an art collection possibly worth hundreds of millions of dollars....
