Wednesday 18 February 2015

RECYCLABLOG #3: Marcos Sex Files: Matilda Waltzes with the Dictator

Does the name Evelin Hegyesi ring a bell? If it does, that means you probably have an archive of Playboy magazines dating back to the 70′s. Evelin Hegyesi is a former Sydney model who once graced the pages of Playboy and modeled mink bikinis. She also once stole the heart of Ferdinand Marcos (pre-Dovie Beams). The two are said to have met while she was working as a model in Paris in 1970. She was at a fashion show and was introduced to president Marcos and “struck an immediate rapport”. Hegyesi thereafter would frequent Manila, trysting with Apo Ferdie at a “safehouse” somewhere in Forbes. She then got pregnant and gave birth to a daughter on April 1971. 

A Marcos lovechild? Well, her daughter’s name is Analisa Josefa (pic on the right with partner Dean Fleming). Josefa is the name of Marcos’s mother. Curiously also, when Swiss authorities lifted their notorious bank secrecy laws, international investigators found an “Australian” link to one of Marcos’s secret accounts. Soon after Evelin Hegyesi gave birth in 1971, Marcos signed papers that made Ms Hegyesi’s company, Austraphil Pty Ltd, the “sole and only beneficiary” of one of his fronts, the Azio Foundation. Hegyesi set up Austraphil on October 14, 1970 when she was just 23 years old and three months pregnant. Money was regularly transferred from this Marcos account to the accounts of Evelin Hegyesi only terminating when Marcos died in 1989. 

In February 1993, Evelin took her daughter to Manila to meet the Marcos lawyers and tried to persuade them the pair were entitled to $20 million from the estate. They travelled with Joe Phillips, a financial consultant Evelin had hired to help claim the money from the Marcos estate. The Hegyesis and Mr Phillips met the Marcos family lawyer Manuel Lazaro early in February, 1993. Several of Marcos’s generals were at the meeting. Mr Lazaro told them he accepted Analisa was the daughter of Marcos, but there was no provision for them in Marcos’s will. The meeting was friendly and the three were invited to dinner at Mr Lazaro’s home. Though Evelin and Analisa returned home empty-handed, the two still lead a very posh life. Evelin is now a 57-year old real estate multi-millionaire (thanks to that seed money and sustento from d’ Apo) and Analisa is a socialite living with the son of a racing and fruits market family with an estimated worth of $270 million.

Source: http://indiosbravos.blog.com/2011/04/16/recyclablog-3-marcos-sex-files-matilda-waltzes-with-the-dictator/

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