Imelda Marcos, widow of Ferdinand Marcos, has announced her run for Congress in the 2010 elections. Imelda hopes to replace son Bong Bong who is running for the Senate. Daughter Imee is running for Governor of Illocos Norte. She previously held a congressional seat from her home province of Leyte serving from 1995 to 1998http://www.gmanews.tv/story/178318/imelda-marcos-joins-pacquiao-arroyo-in-run-for-congress

The 80 year old icon in the Philippines hopes if elected it would help her to be able to bring back her late husband's body to bury in the heroes cemetery. Marcos wants to clear the family name and is running under the party of her late husband in an area that still largely favors the Marcos family. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gp6lo9k_EZVT3pFITaOlwasQtHhQD9EMELT00

The Marcos family became infamous for their vast personal wealth -- estimated at $215 billion.The Independent: The Weird World of Imelda Marcos (February 25, 2006) Imelda's lifestyle reflected this vast wealth, and she became particularly infamous because of her extravagant lifestyle. She was charged with numerous counts of racketeering, fraud, and other financial crimes in both the Philippines and the United States. By 2008, Imelda was acquitted of all American charges, and all but 10 in the Philippines.News.com.au: Imelda Marcos cleared of moving money (March 10, 2008)

Imelda was appointed governmental positions during a period of martial law that Ferdinand Marcos had first imposed on September 23, 1972. On December 7 of that year, there was an attempt on her life during an award ceremony that was being broadcast on live television. The assassin wounded Imelda's hands and arms, which required 75 stitches.Vanderbilt Television News Archive: [1] She survived the attack, while the assassin was immediately shot and killed.

The world knows of the volume of shoes of the former First Lady of the Philippines. When the Marcoes were swept quickly from the country and taken away, the shoes were left behind, a symbol of all that had been accumulated during the reign. Imelda's shoes are a part of the movie The Red Shoes directed by Raul Jorolan. The movie is about a young boy who managed to get one pair of Imelda's shoes in the aftermath of the Marcos family departure from Malacañang on the night of February 25, 1986. The movie is the story of the lives of the boy and the two ladies he divided the pair of shoes among, his mother and his girlfriend. http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=557480&publicationSubCategoryId=70