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Start packing the shoes -- Imelda Marcos is free to go home. For the past five years, the exiled wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has been barred from her native land by President Corazon Aquino's coup-plagued regime. But last week Manila lifted the ban so it could begin criminal prosecution of Marcos, who under Philippine law must be present at her trial. The aim: to recover $350 million in allegedly ill-gotten wealth now frozen in Swiss bank accounts...
...money, Deloure?" Mustico, who was a Holiday on Ice figure skater in the late '50s, pushes back her luxuriant blond coiffure and smiles wistfully. "That was a lovely moment, almost as much fun as winning the $5,000." She also has fond memories of the time she chatted with Imelda Marcos as the two played slots side by side last year at Trump Castle...
During the year, the symbolic targets of the '80s were shot down one by one: Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, Imelda Marcos, Manuel Noriega, Michael Milken. Each comeuppance inspired an uneasy mix of glee and fear -- uneasy because we had so lately embraced the values of those whose falls we were cheering...
Actor George Hamilton scored his biggest film hit in the 1979 vampire spoof Love at First Bite. Now court records in Los Angeles show that Hamilton may have helped former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda bleed their country's treasury. The papers, filed in a Philippine government effort to recover more than $5 billion that the Marcoses are accused of looting from government coffers, indicate that the couple may have funneled some $12 million through the actor's bank accounts...
Hamilton, a close friend of Imelda Marcos' in the 1980s, testified that a Marcos associate gave him $5.5 million in 1983 for an abortive film project. Hamilton returned the money to a Hong Kong bank that proved to have ties to Marcos. In another transaction, a Marcos crony lent Hamilton $6 million, including $4 million that was secured by the actor's Beverly Hills estate. Hamilton later sold the home to a buyer close to Marcos. While Hamilton's lawyer conceded that his client may have been a "tool for someone," he argued that the actor "would not knowingly participate...