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=Shoes= The shoe collection of Imelda Marcos,  which was left behind in Malacañang Palace in when the Marcos family was ousted by the 1986 People Power Revolution, is a pop culture icon which has come to represent what the Philippine government calls the “ill-gotten  wealth” of the Marcos family,  and of extravagant living in general.

Full tallies of the number of shoes in the collection range from the 1,060 pairs reported by Time Magazine in 1987, to the larger figure of 3,000 shoes affirmed by the Presidential Commission on Good Government in its press reports. Whichever figure is more accurate, seven hundred twenty pairs of shoes are currently kept – either on display or in storage - at the Shoe Museum in Marikina City. Another 1000 pairs were reported to have been damaged by termites and mold in 2012 after water seeped into the storage in the National Museum of the Philippines where they were being kept.

Background
Imelda was first lady of the Philippines for 21 years. Her husband Ferdinand was first sworn in as President on December 30, 1965, and was elected to a second four year term in 1969. The constitutional limit to his presidency was supposed to be eight years, ending in 1973, but he declared Martial Law in September 1972 and pushed for the creation of a new constitution in 1973, allowing him to stay in power until he was deposed in 1986.

Through that time, Imelda took on an increasing number of roles, inculding Minister of Human Settlements, and appointive Governor of the National Capital.

until February 25, 1986

Tally and value
There is a discrepancy among reports of how many pairs of shoes were actually discovered in the presidential palace Malacañang. The Philippines’ Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) confirmed the 3,000 count to Rappler, but Time reported in 1987 that the “final tally” was 1,060 pairs. More recent reports from CNN, The New York Times, and the BBC also report it at over 1,000. "I did not have 3,000 pairs of shoes. I had 1,060," Imelda herself said in 1987... it still means not repeating a pair for nearly 3 years!!!
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Current Status
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= Other places =

Properties in California
Geronimo Velasco, Marcos’ Minister of Energy, and Rodolfo Cuenca, one of the Philippine cronies who dominated the construction industry, were both connected to several real estate purchases in California.

Velasco, using either Decision Research Management, a shell company in Hong Kong, or through Velasco's nephew, Alfredo de Borja, purchased several expenses properties in California, including

a mansion in Woodside for $1.5 million (price as of 1986), -- art was recovered but -- ownership was determined to be greggy's

a condominium in Los Angeles for $675,000 (price as of June 3, 1982) and

a luxury condominium in San Francisco for $400,000 (price as of 1984).

George Hamilton Dovie Beams properties

Cuenca, on the other hand, purchased different real estates properties in San Francisco through TRA Equities Inc., a shell corporation registered in Delaware. His purchases included a condominium, a home, two office buildings and an annex in San Francisco, as well as a home in San Bruno.

The Marcos empire
All of these properties and investments are only a fraction of the entire Marcos empire. The Center for Research and Communications, a Philippine private think-tank, estimated that Marcos and his cronies took away not only $10 million but $30 billion since the 1950s.