Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos

Imelda Romualdez Marcos (locally [ɪˈmelda ɾoˈmwɐldɛs ˈmaɾkɔs]; born Imelda Remedios Visitación Trinidad Romuáldez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipino politician who was First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, wielding significant political power after her husband Ferdinand Marcos placed the country under martial law in September 1972. She is the mother of current president Bongbong Marcos. During her husband's 21-year rule, Imelda Marcos ordered the construction of many grandiose architectural projects, using public funds and "in impossibly short order" – a propaganda practice, which eventually came to be known as her "edifice complex". She and her husband stole billions of pesos from the Filipino people, amassing a personal fortune estimated to have been worth US$5 billion to US$10 billion by the time they were deposed in 1986; by 2018, about $3.6 billion of this had been recovered by the Philippine government, either through compromise deals or sequestration cases. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Imelda Marcos is the 13th most popular companion (up from 266th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Philippines (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Filipino Companion.

Imelda Marcos is most famous for being the wife of the former president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos. After he was removed from power in 1986, she was accused of corruption and embezzlement.