The only thing I know about her is that she is rich,really cruel to her staff and owned a gazillion pair of shoes.

She was the wife of Phillipine leader Ferdinand Marcos who kept his people in poverty while massing money for himself. when they finally got rid of Marcos they found Imelda had 10,000 pair of shoes, amongst other insane numbers of luxury items all while thier people starved.

It's gotta be the shoes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_Marcos

Ridiculous wealth in an extremely poor country, tyrannical ruler for a husband and gross shopping ways. Oh and by the way she was a woman and therefore had a few pairs of shoes.

"Imelda Trinidad Romualdez-Marcos (born July 2, 1929 in Manila) was the wife of Ferdinand Marcos, former First Lady, and an influential political figure in the Philippines. She is known as the "Steel Butterfly" and remains a controversial figure not only in her home country, but around the world. Her extensive shoe collection is world-renowned." "As a Special Envoy, Mrs. Imelda Marcos was instrumental in the opening of Philippine diplomatic relations with China, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe (Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, etc.), Middle East, Libya, and Cuba, in the securing of a cheap supply of oil from China and Libya; and in the signing of the Tripoli Agreement. Imelda Marcos' extravagant lifestyle reportedly included five-million-dollar shopping tours in New York, Rome and Copenhagen in 1983, and sending a plane to pick up Australian white sand for a new beach resort. She purchased a number of properties in Manhattan in the 1980s, including the $51-million Crown Building and the $60-million Herald Centre; she declined to purchase the Empire State Building for $750m as she considered it "too ostentatious". Her New York real estate was later seized and sold, along with much of her jewels and most of her 175 piece art collection, which included works by Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Canaletto. She responded to criticisms of her extravagance by claiming that it was her "duty" to be "some kind of light, a star to give [the poor] guidelines." She was instrumental in securing the 1974 Miss Universe Pageant for Manila, and organized the Kasaysayan ng Lahi, a festival showcasing the history of the Philippines. She also claimed to have launched a massive family-planning program to reduce population growth, despite opposition from the country's powerful Catholic Church Her other projects include: the Cultural Center of the Philippines; Philippine Heart Center; Lung Center of the Philippines; Kidney Institute of the Philippines, Nayong Pilipino; Philippine International Convention Center; Folk Arts Theater; Coconut Palace; and the infamous Manila Film Center." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_Marcos