Imee Marcos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetImee Marcos
Filipino politician
Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1955
Place of Birth: Mandaluyong, Luzon, Philippines
Profession: politician
Nationality: Philippines
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Imee Marcos
- MarÃa Imelda Josefa "Imee" Romualdez Marcos (born November 12, 1955) is a Filipino politician currently serving as Senator of the Philippines since 2019.
- She is the daughter of Ferdinand E.
- Marcos and former First Lady Imelda R.
- Marcos. During her father's martial law rule, she played various political roles including chairperson of the Kabataang Barangay and as assemblyman to the Batasang Pambansa, during which Archimedes Trajano was murdered after he questioned the appointment of Imee Marcos as the director of the Kabataang Barangay.
- She turned 18 - age of majority in the Philippines - just fourteen months her father's declaration of Martial Law, and was already 30 years old by the time the Marcoses were ousted from power after the 1986 People Power revolution, and escaped to Honolulu.After her family was able to return to the Philippines in the 1990s, she served three terms as Representative of the 2nd District of Ilocos Norte in the Philippine House of Representatives from 1998 until 2007 and then became governor of Ilocos Norte.
- She ran for a senatorial position in the 2019 Philippine general elections, and won a seat in the Senate of the Philippines.Her conviction in the 1993 Trajano v.
- Marcos case (978 F 2d 493) before the U.S.
- district court in Honolulu, Hawaii, is noted in U.S.
- legal circles for exposing the weaknesses of the act of state doctrine, allowing for similar suits to be filed.She has been linked to the unexplained wealth of her family, identified as a beneficiary of various Marcos offshore holdings as revealed in the Panama Papers and the findings in the court convictions of her mother Imelda Marcos.
- These holdings were defined as "ill-gotten wealth" by the Philippines' Supreme Court, and are the subject of repatriation efforts by the Presidential Commission on Good Government.
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