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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11NANCY WITH THE GOLDEN THREADS
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole.
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- Clothes hounds were not the only ones eyeing those size-4
- designer dresses that NANCY REAGAN wore as First Lady. The
- Internal Revenue Service was studying them too. Shortly after
- President Reagan left office, the IRS undertook an audit of his
- taxes, prodded by former fashion executive Chris Blazakis, who
- was familiar with the value of Mrs. Reagan's extensive wardrobe.
- The former First Lady, who promised to stop accepting free
- designer goodies in 1982, told the tax officials that everything
- obtained after 1983 was purchased. The designers, however, said
- she did not pay them. Concluding that between 1983 and 1988 the
- Reagans failed to report some $3 million worth of free clothes,
- jewelry and furs, the IRS presented them with a hefty bill for
- back taxes and interest. A former assistant to Mrs. Reagan says
- the bill was settled.
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