Marcos jewels

However, it also specifically refers to three collections of jewelry which were recovered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) in 1986,[1][2] which the Philippine Supreme Court had ruled to be part of the Marcoses' unlawful wealth.

[11] When the Marcoses were ousted from power by the EDSA People Power revolution, they were forced to leave Malacañang Palace very quickly in the early morning of February 25, 1986, leaving behind "a horde of treasures including 15 mink coats, 508 couture gowns, 888 handbags and, most famously, 3,000 pairs of designer shoes".

Imelda Marcos and her daughter Irene Marcos-Araneta petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse the ruling, but the court determined in a 2017 decision that the women had "failed to satisfactorily show that the properties were lawfully acquired; hence, the prima facie presumption that they were unlawfully acquired prevails".

[11][12] Confiscated by the United States Customs Service when the Marcoses arrived at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii on February 26, 1986, this jewelry collection took US customs officials about a month to document, and was initially appraised at $5 million to $10 million.

[17] The jewelry pieces included in the Hawaii collection have been the subject of numerous public exhibits – notably a public exhibit titled "A Story of Excesses: What Could Have Fuelled a Nation’s Development" by the PCGG in 2016,[18] and "The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders", an exhibit of 3D replicas of some of the jewelry pieces from the Hawaii collection, by Filipino artist Pio Abad and British jewelry-maker Frances Wadsworth Jones.

[19] A third collection of Marcos jewels was seized when the Greek national Demetriou Roumeliotes attempted to bring them out of the Philippines at Manila International Airport on March 1, 1986.