Search: imelda marcos
Why: In a Zappos review, Anonymous wrote:
Problem with feet as I have Multiple Sclerosis - I feel like Imelda Marcos with shoes sometimes.Answer: Imelda Remedios Visitacion Trinidad Romualdez-Marcos is the widow of the former President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos. She is known as the "Steel Butterfly" and was recently named one of Newsweek's 11 "Greediest People of All Time." Marcos reportedly owns 3,000 pairs of shoes and one of the world's largest collections of gems - and she does not have Multiple Sclerosis. She dresses like this:
Source: Wikipedia
The More You Know: Other greedy people on that list included:
- Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky
- China's Empress Dowager Cixi
- Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus
- Genghis Khan
- Former Tyco International CEO Dennis Kozlowski
- Bernard Madoff
- Swindler Charles Ponzi
- Pope Sixtus IV
- American politician William M. “Boss” Tweed
- Industrialist William H. Vanderbilt
