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Imelda Marcos Sues to get her Diamonds Back!
Imelda Marcos, former first lady and wife of the late President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, filed a motion in court to prevent the auction of as much as $10 million worth of diamonds and jewelry.
Marcos said the jewelry is hers and told the government to "Please stop this. This is too much repression."
Christie's auction house was already sorting jewels to prepare bid for auction as early as November, but a complete and current value of goods remained unknown. The collection includes a Burmese ruby, diamonds and two diamond tiaras, and many pearl necklaces and jewelry. Sotheby's and Boham's are scheduled to review the collection in coming days.
In 1986 United States customs officials confiscated diamonds carried in diapers by the Marcoses after their flight arrived in Hawaii from Manila.
Marcos, 76, filed a petition on September 15 to stop the sale of the collection including that of a 37.5 carat diamond. She says in the document that the diamond was left at the couple's home when they fled to Hawaii and it was then stolen before it ended up with "a certain Demetriou Roumeliotes, who attempted to smuggle them out of the country."
Roumeliotes is a Greek national who was prevented from fleeing Manila with 60 pieces of jewelry.
Proceeds from the sale of Marcos' jewelry would fund a land reform program in the Philippines. The jewelry was twice before prevented from auction due to litigation.
Hey, Yo, Phillipine Government! I agree with Imelda. Give her back her diamonds and jewelry! If you guys want to make some real money, auction off her shoes!
Comments
Imelda Marcos belongs to the Wealthy Romualdez
Family.Those jewels are her family heirlooms.
Alot were reset and additional stones were added to modernize the style and match her
clothes as she traveled and met royalties,
ambassadors,head of states.How would you feel if your family jewels were stolen and sold off.
I rest my case. Those jewels have alot of
setimental values in her heart.
Please Give them back to the Rightful Owner.Madame Imelda Roumauldez Marcos.
Posted by: MELO on August 19, 2006 12:54 AM
Imelda belongs to a poor relations of the wealthy Paz Gueco Romualdez!They were very poor in Tacloban,their house was a small tiny house and she had only a nice face and can sing
that's all.She lived with her wealthy cousin in law in Manila,until he met marcos.
Posted by: Gracie Dijkhuyzen on March 9, 2007 7:58 AM
imelda used to go to the house of the Reyes family in Manila,to practise singing accompanied by the piano by Mr.Reyes,she used to eat there too(she was then the maid of her rich cousin in law,Paz Gueco(rich Gueco's but not imelda.She did not own any diamonds then!these are not heirlooms,THEY WERE SO POOR THEN.
She is a liar!
Posted by: Huub on April 6, 2007 11:05 AM
Interesting.
As a former serviceman stationed in the P.I., I can attest to the Marcos' as fair. So the First Lady had almost 3000 pairs of shoes; how many would any woman in her position as first lady have after 20 years? The same goes for the jewelry, much of which were gifts from heads of state. When the Marcos' were in charge, it was 25 pesos to the dollar, now it's 50/$. There wer maybe 30 clubs outside of Clark Air Base in 1982, now it's more like 300. Thank you People Power! Now, give Imelda her stuff back.
Posted by: Evan Snow on May 7, 2007 11:49 PM
Those jewelries are not Imelda's. Tell Mrs. Bush or Mrs. Clinton to buy jewelries and shoes just like her, let us see if you can feel how we filipinos felt.
Posted by: Alan Roxas on August 4, 2007 3:06 AM
if I were the first lady for 20 years i'd have more than 3000 pairs,i would not even keep them,probably give them away,we should admire her for looking after them...regarding her diamonds? ...she's got taste, i love her...i'm sure a lot of women wish they were in her shoes!!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous on September 22, 2007 5:19 PM
if I were the first lady for 20 years i'd have more than 3000 pairs,i would not even keep them,probably give them away,we should admire her for looking after them...regarding her diamonds? ...she's got taste, i love her...i'm sure a lot of women wish they were in her shoes!!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous on September 22, 2007 5:21 PM
Come on people, time to move on, lets give credit where credit is due, before the marcoses, the philippines was just a u.s. base, known for the death march and 2nd world war.
The Marcoses although negative publicity has attracted worldwide news, what does that do for the country? Tourism for one, I've just visited the country after I left in 1972 and the country has progressed a lot from that time.
I believe in the right of ownership, she owns the jewelry whether she acquired it as a gift from any other country, it was given to her, it's righfully hers to keep.
The government seems to believe that all the valuables were stolen, how can it be when it was either bought or given to her. This is an example of how Hitler took all the valuables of the jews at the time of the holocaust.
Let her be and concentrate on getting rid of the abu sayyap rebels instead.
Posted by: victor dees on October 16, 2007 12:08 AM
imelda is a liar and the biggest thief in the whole wide world,she does not own those jewels they belong to the poor Pinoys,jewels must be sold!!over our dead body!1From Pinoys in europe.We suffered so much during the marcos plunder years,how dare you out there??
Posted by: Caroline on November 1, 2007 4:39 PM
If you want want to steal millions or billions of money, you go to the philippines. They are very forgiving people.
Posted by: Anonymous on November 15, 2007 5:17 AM
Having a lot of shoes is not an issue, you guys just making it a big deal. I am not a First lady but i have some collection of shoes and purses and jewelries. Imelda is a classy lady and she has to have a lot of pairs of shoes as a representative of the Philippines. If i would be a First lady i'll probably have more shoes than Imelda.
Posted by: Merle Snow on December 28, 2007 12:16 PM