After the sexual affair and scandal that ensued in the Philippines, Beams started her own real estate agency in Glendale, California, and married her second husband, Sergio Fausto Villagran (born 1936).

In 1970, a huge scandal hit the Philippines over the stormy break-up between then President Ferdinand Marcos and his mistress of two years, Hollywood starlet Dovie Beams.

[1] The recording of their sexual encounter was publicly played at the radio station of the University of the Philippines and consisted of the following segments: Beams had arrived in the Philippines in 1968 to shoot the film Maharlika, a film partially funded by Marcos and meant to glorify his alleged war exploits, in which she played opposite Paul Burke as a native Filipina.

Thus after that they brought birth control pills into the Philippines, and now the people were free to make their own decisions regarding having or not having babies.”[1]In November 1987, Beams and her husband Sergio Villagran were arrested in Los Angeles County for committing bank fraud related to her real estate agency for the purpose of maintaining their luxurious lifestyle in Pasadena, California.

I decided to break the ice and Mrs. Marcos' unceasing tirades by cracking knock-knock jokes, which made him smile and even laugh.On 30 December 2017, Beams died[8] in Nashville, Tennessee due to lung cancer and comorbidity, associated with both alcohol and long-term tobacco use.