Former First Lady, Imelda Marcos, appears on electronic billboard in Mandaluyong City for her 93rd birthday today

LOOK: A giant electronic billboard greeting former First Lady Imelda Marcos on her 93rd birthday illuminates EDSA in Mandaluyong City on Saturday. (Read More Here).

BIOGRAPHY of Imelda Marcos:

“Imelda Romualdez Marcos[4] (locally [ɪˈmelda ˈmaɾkɔs]; born Imelda Remedios Visitacion Trinidad Romualdez; July 2, 1929) is a Filipina politician who served as the First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. She is the wife of former president Ferdinand Marcos and the mother of current president Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

“During her husband’s 21-year rule, she 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 Ferdinand 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.

She and her family gained notoriety for living a lavish lifestyle during a period of economic crisis and civil unrest in the country. She spent much of her time abroad on state visits, extravagant parties, and shopping sprees, and spent much of the State’s money on her personal art, jewelry and shoe collections – amassing 3,000 pairs of shoes.The subject of dozens of court cases around the world,she was eventually convicted “guilty” of corruption charges in 2018 for her activities during her term as governor of Metro Manila; the case is under appeal. She and her husband Ferdinand hold the Guinness World Record for the “Greatest Robbery of a Government”.

“The People Power Revolution in February 1986 unseated the Marcoses and forced the family into exile in Hawaii. In 1991, President Corazon Aquino allowed the Marcos family to return to the Philippines to face various charges after the 1989 death of Ferdinand Marcos. Imelda Marcos was elected four times to the House of Representatives of the Philippines, and ran twice for the presidency of the Philippines but failed to garner enough votes.”