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Even more graphic evidence of decadent splendor, Marcos-style, was afforded by a private collection of more than 500 videotapes unearthed in Manila and New York. In one of the tapes, taken by an exclusive presidential crew, Imelda cavorts with bejeweled guests in a private Malaca??ang disco, complete with disk jockey's booth and man-made waterfall. Another video chronicles an abandoned bacchanal aboard the presidential yacht, celebrating the birthday of the youngest of the three Marcos offspring, Irene Araneta, last year. A man in a baby bonnet bursts out of a cake. The First Lady jives under flashing...
...visitors found themselves inside a bizarre combination of Macy's and the palace at Versailles. As hundreds of Manila's poorest, many of them in ragged clothes and rubber sandals, shuffled between golden ropes through Malaca??ang Palace, the residence of former President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda, they witnessed a show of conspicuous consumption beyond their imaginings. Inside Imelda's boudoir were two queen-size beds on an elevated platform, and a grand piano. The former First Lady's washbasin was made of gold. Downstairs, in a not-so-bargain basement, the woman who used to refer...
...opening the doors to Malaca??ang Palace last week, President Corazon Aquino was hoping to close the doors, symbolically, on an era of covert monarchy. True to her campaign promise, the new leader turned the Marcos mansion into the People's Park, a public museum. Faithful so far to another promise, the former housewife showed every sign of for-swearing the designer life-style of her predecessors. She still operates out of a guesthouse next to the Spanish-style palace and commutes to work from her modest suburban home...
...greed," said one nun after her glimpse into the life-style of the rich and famous. "In the palace, I saw all the seven capital sins." Even visitors accustomed to more affluent surroundings were stunned. "Next to Imelda," said Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz of New York after visiting Malaca??ang, "Marie Antoinette was a bag lady...
Shortly after President Marcos left the party caucus that ratified his call for elections, his wife Imelda, 56, appeared in the corridors of Malaca??ang Palace. Smiling and greeting the delegates, Mrs. Marcos whispered to one visitor, "I leave it up to you to take care of the President and to deliver the votes." The reply: "We will give the opposition zero, ma'am." Imelda broke into laughter. "But you will make the foreign press angry. That's one thing the Western mind will never believe and understand...