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March 3 (UPI) -- A New Brunswick couple who initially thought a burglar had broken into their home discovered the invader was actually a panicked deer. For more on #WhereAreTheyNow, visit http://bit.ly/2dTkI. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. Additional Philippine funds financed Hamilton real estate investments, including a Mississippi plantation and his former Benedict Canyon home, built by screen legend Charlie Chaplin. The Manila government plans to sell the house, now valued at more than $5 million, to help shore up its depleted hard currency reserves. That image has been reinforced over the years by a lavish lifestyle and decades of noted romances with rich and famous women. You become a custodian, arriving home at night and seeing 15 people for dinner and thinking, What am I doing? Later, when Hamilton married model-actress Alana Stewart and sold the place, Teeny and Bill sued him for financial support, arguing that his subsidizing of their lifestyle had, in effect, saved his life by precluding him from serving in Vietnam. Yet when inquiry turns to pricklier matters, memory blurs. It was a bad time, Hamilton says of the saga, his voice soft. The money came from crony Antonio Floirendo Sr. who admitted funneling it for Imelda. LaBella said the dollars given to Hamilton went for personal use . Some of the Marcos money could have been invested in that enterprise, investigators said. Acquisition of the Beverly Hills house will add to a growing list of recent property recoveries in the United States made by the Philippine government which has filed a civil racketeering case in Los Angeles federal court, seeking to recover some of the billions of dollars it claims was stolen by the Marcoses and their cronies. The Philippine businesswoman, who owns Manilas largest department store, was indicted on the same charges pending against Mrs. Marcos. He was in competition with me (to be) an investment adviser to Imelda, said Joseph Bernstein, former property manager of the Marcoses once-secret real estate holdings in New York. Suspected burglar inside New Brunswick home was a panicked deer. For the second time, he portrayed a murderer on the television series Columbo, starring as the host of a TV true-crime show in the 1991 episode "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health". NEW YORK (AP) _ A judge granted immunity to George Hamilton to compel the actor to testify at Imelda Marcos fraud trial. First, the promissory note was canceled after Hamilton, at the request of Floirendos lawyers, endorsed a cashiers check for $2,027,068.49 to a man named Bernard White. March 3 (UPI) -- A Kentucky man who stopped to buy some breakfast said he lost his appetite when he won $50,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket. This story first appeared in the July 31 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. All Rights Reserved. In March, 1986, as the Marcoses settled into exile in Hawaii, Hamiltons house was sold to a Cayman Islands corporation controlled by Saudi financier and arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi for $6.5 million. Also a durable punchline. MGM cast Hamilton in support of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner in the melodrama All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960) which flopped at the box office. Barnum (1999), and She's Too Tall (1999). He believes her to be a misunderstood humanitarian she personally phoned Cedars-Sinai when Hamiltons brother Bill lay dying, startling the nurse on duty, a Filipina, into taking special care and that the focus on her enormous shoe collection is a big to-do about nothing. His first film role was a lead, Crime and Punishment U.S.A. (1959), directed by Denis Sanders. While hes the first to laugh about it explaining that his dermatologist long ago just gave up on convincing him to limit his solar exposure, and counting himself lucky not to have been felled by skin cancer he remains an evangelist for sunbathing, which he started because he didnt like wearing film makeup that melted in the heat. Los Angeles County records show that in April 1982 Hamilton purchased the property, owned originally by Charlie Chaplin, from a woman named Joy Bright for $1.2 million. But a committee of the U.S. Congress investigating the flight of billions of dollars from the Philippines prior to Marcos's ouster said it has no plans to investigate the financial transactions surrounding Hamilton's estate. The two have remained friends over the years. I couldnt help thinking it might have been me, Hamilton wistfully wrote in his 2008 memoir, Dont Mind If I Do. He auditioned for the show, and in March 2007, TMZ reported that Hamilton was a frontrunner to replace Barker. It features anecdotes that Hamilton had told to Merv Griffin. Earlier this year, in out-of-court settlements jointly negotiated with New York federal prosecutors, the Philippines took over a $30-million Beverly Hills bank formerly controlled by the Marcoses and numerous art works valued at about $10 million. But the newly released court documents and other related records trace the $12 million from secret Marcos accounts in the Philippines, through Hamilton investments in the United States, to foreign banks and offshore shell companies associated with the Marcoses. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. He says he hasnt voted in his life and believes its irresponsible for actors, who have no qualifications, to express opinions on such matters. Memphis-born George Stevens Hamilton, 51, arrived in Hollywood at age 19 with a state acting award from Florida. Florida woman runs ultra-marathon distances for 23 consecutive days. He said the release would be a violation of his privacy. He would not knowingly participate in any transaction that has any taint.. There were no hard feelings, though. 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All Rights Reserved, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2017, All the celebs at Paris Fashion Week February-March 2023: Halsey and more, Billboard Women in Music Awards 2023 red carpet: Lana Del Rey, more, Costume Designers Guild Awards 2023 red carpet: Cate Blanchett, more, All the celebrities at Milan Fashion Week February 2023: Dua Lipa, more. Maybe he was a tool for someone, an innocent, said Arthur N. Greenberg, Hamiltons attorney. a typical Marcos transaction, he said. Interviews, testimony and court records--some of which were part of the massive evidence introduced in the New York case--also cast new light on the long-acknowledged relationship between the actor and Madam Marcos. And then we started talking about the real theme of the film. The film included scenes with Dracula and his conquest as they dance to "I Love the Nightlife" at a disco. He said Hamilton attended business meetings with Mrs. Marcos. Theyre given an unusual amount of credibility, he says. But the actors attorney, Arthur N. Greenberg, said Hamilton thought he was dealing with wealthy Philippine entrepreneurs and never knew that the millions of dollars he received came from his friends, the Marcoses. [citation needed], His stepfathers were Carleton Hunt and Jesse Spalding; his stepmother was June Howard, with whom Hamilton said he had repeated sexual relations when he was age 12, shortly after she married his father, and again later when he was an adult. At age 66 and recovering from knee injuries, Hamilton, unable to match the limber dance moves of his younger competitors, charmed the audience and judges with endearingly silly dances that used props, including a Zorro mask and the sword from Zorro, The Gay Blade. Both mother and brother harbored dreams of stardom. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images Hamilton credits his larger-than-life Southern belle socialite mother, Anne, known as Teeny, and nine-years-older gay half brother Bill as defining influences. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? In his 2008 memoir, Dont Mind If I Do, he called the experience my own sexual bar mitzvah. But now, post-#MeToo reckoning, theres no romance to molestation, and hell speak of the perpetrator only elliptically, if still sympathetically, as a discontented housewife, slightly off, quite beautiful too., (Though Hamilton is all for gender parity in the industry, he doesnt retreat from his past description of himself as an enlightened male chauvinist, the kind who once issued such wisdom in a self-help book as Women are like a fine violin: They just need to be appreciated and bowed properly.), Hamilton is hard to pin down on the least-fun scandal of his life, the Justice Departments accusation that he was a front for the 1980s looting of the Philippine treasury at the hands of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. He brought the then-22-year-old presidential daughter to the Academy Awards that year. Marcos died before going to trial and Mrs. Marcos was acquitted in the case prosecuted by LaBella. He blamed that on pressure, perhaps from Tantoco, to make a film about the famous generals love affair with a Filipina. He was an impish, elfish, humorous person always very nice. Attorney Greenberg said he had no comment on Bernsteins assertions, but later declared: You have to understand George. Beatty's political satire Bulworth (1998) contained a running gag, with Hamilton'appearing as himself Hamilton had a regular role on the TV series Jenny (1997). I think he slops bronzer on and hopes itll last till the evening easy to put on, probably a spray tan: less fussy and camera-ready, says Hamilton, whom Trump once employed as a host of Miss Universe and later bestowed with a Lifetime Achievement Award for debonair style., For anyone seeking more than skin-deep analysis of the president, Hamilton is not your man. The actor, recently featured on the television program Dynasty, also denied rumors linking him romantically with the former Philippine first lady, Imelda Marcos. Malle said "he was a personal choice and I am happy with himHe's more interested in being in the social columns I don't understand when he should be one of the greatest of his generation. [22][23] A cigar lounge bearing his name was opened in the late 1990s at the New York, New York, hotel in Las Vegas and other locations, along with a line of cigars bearing the actor's name. It was his only marriage; the two separated in 1976 after four years. That issue is of particular importance to prosecutors because of defense assertions that millions of dollars allegedly diverted from the Philippine treasury by Mrs. Marcos and her late husband, former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, were used to fight communist rebels and to further other official policies of the government. In December, 1975, Cosmopolitan magazine named Imelda Marcos, the First Lady of the Phillippines, as one of the ten richest women in the world.It even went a step further and speculated that Imelda was perhaps the richest woman in the world, richer than Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.. Everyone knew Imelda was rich; she made sure of that. Actor George Hamilton said Imelda Marcos saved his mother's life by inviting the despondent woman to the Philippines after Hamilton's brother died. He made headlines testifying that hed received a multimillion-dollar loan from a Marcos associate that hed used for a Beverly Hills mansion (later repossessed by the Manila government) and financed an ill-fated film about Gen. Douglas MacArthurs wartime experiences in the region. In a sworn affidavit, Floirendo said Mrs. Marcos instructed him to transfer the mortgage on the house to Krodo Properties NV, a Caribbean shell corporation, in 1984. After making a cameo in Looking for Love (1964), Hamilton appeared in Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), playing Hank Williams. He played the roles from November 21, 2001 to February 17, 2002; June 04, 2002 to July 29, 2002; and from September 14, 2007 to October 07, 2007. 50,062, This story has been shared 18,198 times. Hamilton has hosted the live stage adaptation of the show The Price Is Right Live! The political [people] are happy to use your persona. Hamilton invited Johnson to join him in Acapulco, and she, surprisingly, accepted. Shed initiated it when George was living in Manhattan for a stretch as a preteen with his father, by then working as a high-ranking executive at Elizabeth Arden. 49,964, This story has been shared 18,169 times. Hamiltons attorney shrugged off suggestions of sweetheart deals, saying Hamilton repaid Floirendo. In August 2008, Hamilton co-starred in Coma, a web series on Crackle. [34] According to Burt Reynolds ' autobiography, [35] Hamilton has a healthy sense of humor, even when the humor is directed at him. In a previously sealed court deposition, Hamilton testified he received the money from associates of the Marcoses, that he paid it back and that he did not know the funds were linked to the couple, the Times reported. Khashoggi assumed the $4-million Krodo loan, and he has acknowledged acting at the behest of the Marcoses. Let him publish it. And she just handed it to him and everybody went, phew. . In March, 1983, Hamilton flew to Hong Kong to pick up personally $5.5 million from a Tantoco bank account. [28], In 1966, Hamilton had a relationship with Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of U.S. President Lyndon B. The couple would break up after a year, and a few months later, Johnson became engaged to Marine Corps Captain Charles Robb, (who Hamilton called her genetic destiny), now her husband. 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He also said that Mrs. Marcos later ordered him to transfer the $4-million mortgage on the Hamilton house to another Caribbean shell corporation, Krodo Properties NV, in May, 1984. Her co-defendant, Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, is charged with fraud and obstruction for allegedly helping the Marcoses hide their ownership of the four buildings and art. . Eventually, Hamilton relinquished the money to a Hong Kong bank and the funds ended up in London, where a Filipino architect gave the $5.5 million to two swarthy men linked to Mrs. Marcos, according to investigators. Starting in Fall 2011, Hamilton starred as "Georges" for the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles. She looked at it, Hamilton recalls, looked at it sideways, and said, Well, this looks rather good. Floirendo said it was Mrs. Marcos who directed that the check be endorsed to White. For eighteen months, Hamilton, a 26-year-old B-level actor, known more for his debonair personality and dark good looks than his acting chops, and LBJs eldest daughter Lynda were quite the item. George Hamilton's House (former) Beverly Hills, California (CA), US Like Tweet Share Pin The film and television actor and occasional film director lived here. The actor said he had met Mrs. Marcos in the late 1970s when he visited the Philippines during a world tour to promote his movie Love at First Bite, a comedy in which he played a vampire. He deplores the cult of authenticity that has overtaken the town since his heyday. Were not sure there ever was a real movie project.. George was urbane and charming by the time I met him when he was 20 years old, she says. A lot of young actors do it and they shouldnt. Initially, at the outset of this MacArthur film, I thought of it as being an action-oriented film . Shed say things like, Ill poison myself if I wish! ). The former matinee idol was always more well-known for his famous friends than his on-screen appearances. Years later, the couple invited him to Robbs inauguration as Governor of Virginia. Look up: The 32 most spectacular ceilings in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? Baskin-Robbins adds a hint of waffle, and voila, Hidden, illegal casinos are booming in L.A., with organized crime reaping big profits, This fabled orchid breeder loves to chat just not about Trader Joes orchids, Look up: The 32 most spectacular ceilings in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? That said, Hamilton keeps a Make America Great Again cap in the corner of his living room, which Trump, with whom he has mutual Palm Beach pals, gifted him at a campaign rally the actor says he happened into at Trump Tower. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? , Hamilton testified in his 1987 deposition. However, she remains a defendant in federal civil suits in Los Angeles and New York that make similar allegations. And, perennially, Hamilton is a pitchman. [33], Hamilton has a well-known social relationship with Imelda Marcos, widow of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, and had business ties to the Marcos family. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Minnesota officer removes jar from raccoon's head. Ramos told them he turned it over to two swarthy men--presumably Filipinos. He said he acted on instructions from Mrs. Tantoco, the agent for Mrs. Marcos. Theyd brought him and younger sibling David from small-town Arkansas to Beverly Hills when George was 7. He focused on television: Malibu (1983) and Two Fathers' Justice (1985). It was produced by Sandy Howard who said Hamilton was "a hot commodity these days" because he was dating Lyndon Johnson's daughter. In truth, LBJs disapproval didnt bother Hamilton, who wasnt exactly looking for a life partner. Hamilton had the script rewritten by John Milius, and the latter called Hamilton "a wonderful guy, totally underrated. 13,816, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved LaBella characterized the Floirendo loans and elements of the 1986 house sale as strange transactions that appeared to disguise the transfer of Marcos funds out of the Philippines via the Beverly Hills property. but obviously she had some interest in it.. Imelda's commentary is complemented by archival footage of her glamorous jet-setting first lady years, including meetings with Nixon, Reagan, Gaddafi and Mao (who, she says, praised her for . U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor turned back his final appeal in late August. Later, he would recall, I sensed that somewhere inside that bookworm was a babe trying to get out.. . 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Newsweek magazine dubbed him the Sultan of suntan.. Ramos said he could not remember the names of the men who picked up the $5.5 million. The 80-year-old has always been a sun worshipper. He would not knowingly participate in any transaction that has any taint.. He is the eldest son of Ann Stevens and bandleader George "Spike" Hamilton. Millions of dollars in assets, including a $4-million Beverly Hills home once listed as belonging to actor George Hamilton, were frozen in Los Angeles federal court Monday in a lawsuit filed by. He purchased the storied mansion with money earned off movies co-starring Olivia de Havilland, Brigitte Bardot and Lana Turner, films that not only were successful but had given Hamilton a real shot at critical approval one he never appears to have been interested in. Hamilton, who once received an honorary degree from the International Smart Tan Network, a trade association for indoor tanning facilities, that he still prominently displays, says vitamin D is a healer for me. These days, though, to maintain his mahogany effect, he relies on a vintage stash of George Hamiltons Constant Color auto-bronzing tinted cream, which he once peddled on QVC. The estate was sold by Hamilton for about $6 million 10 days ago to a company based in the Grand Cayman Islands, according to documents on file in the office of the Los Angeles County Assessor.
