While millions of Filipino people lived in filth and disease. Marcos and his family lived in glittering splendor. For two decades, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos dominated the Philippines. Ferdinand Marcos was a young charismatic politician, his wife, a beauty queen when they rose to power in 1965. A political dynasty now more remembered for lavish spending than triumphs. Ferdinand and Imelda are accused of pillaging up to $10 billion from the Filipino people. Imelda known as the iron butterfly would become a notorious, jet-setting socialite and fashion icon amassing hundreds of millions in Jewel's fine art real estate and the infamous stash of thousands of shoes. Her travels were so luxurious, she wants reportedly spent $2,000 on chewing gum during a layover in San Francisco. She even forced an airplane departing Rome to make a U-turn because she forgot to buy cheese. Despite the outward opulence of her life. Imelda Marcos describes her five years in exile in Terms that are at best,