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- BUSINESS, Page 56Business NotesLAWSUITSBy George, He Had It
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- Actor George Hamilton scored his biggest film hit in the
- 1979 vampire spoof Love at First Bite. Now court records in Los
- Angeles show that Hamilton may have helped former Philippines
- President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda bleed their
- country's treasury. The papers, filed in a Philippine
- government effort to recover more than $5 billion that the
- Marcoses are accused of looting from government coffers,
- indicate that the couple may have funneled some $12 million
- through the actor's bank accounts.
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- Hamilton, a close friend of Imelda Marcos' in the 1980s,
- testified that a Marcos associate gave him $5.5 million in 1983
- for an abortive film project. Hamilton returned the money to
- a Hong Kong bank that proved to have ties to Marcos. In another
- transaction, a Marcos crony lent Hamilton $6 million, including
- $4 million that was secured by the actor's Beverly Hills
- estate. Hamilton later sold the home to a buyer close to
- Marcos. While Hamilton's lawyer conceded that his client may
- have been a "tool for someone," he argued that the actor "would
- not knowingly participate in any transaction that has any
- taint."
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