page_title: Overseas landholdings of the Marcos family
section_title: Manhattan Properties
hierarchical_section_title: Overseas landholdings of the Marcos family / Properties in the United States / Manhattan Properties
caption_attribution_description: English: The Crown Building
context_page_description: The overseas landholdings of the Marcos Family, which the Philippine Government and the United Nations System's Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative consider part of the $5 to $13 Billion "ill-gotten wealth" of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, are said to be distributed worldwide in places including California, Washington, New York, Rome, Vienna, Australia, Antilles, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Singapore. These are aside from the fifty-or-so Marcos mansions located in the Philippines acquired by the Marcos family within the Philippines itself.
  The best known of these properties are the Marcoses' multi-million dollar real estate investments in the United States, particularly Imelda's purchases of buildings and real estate in New York, the estates purchased in New Jersey for the use of the Marcos children, Jose Yao Campos's investments in Seattle, various properties in Hawaii including the Makiki Heights estate where they lived during their exile, and their ownership of the California Overseas Bank in Los Angeles.
context_section_description: The most prominent of the Marcoses' properties outside of the Philippines were four skyscrapers in Manhattan: Crown Building at 730 Fifth Avenue; The Herald Center at the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 34th Street; 40 Wall Street, which has since been renamed the Trump building; and 200 Madison Avenue in Midtown South Central.
caption: A 2013 image of the Crown Building, one of four Manhattan buildings purchased by the Marcoses in the early 1980s.
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