Dennis Garcia’s Facebook wall carried this news item from today’s issue of The Daily Telegraph. A 2004 article in the Sun-Herald gave an interesting background on Analisa’s mother, Evelin, and the awesome money that Marcos gifted her. The article tells us how much money were taken away from us. Just imagine if those money were used for the Filipino people.
Ferdinand Marcos’ girl is shown the door
Analisa Hegyesi
Take one home makeover reality show, add a contestant with serious interior designing credibility – and then apparently take it all away at the last minute because her dad was a corrupt Asian dictator.
That’s what Bondi designer Analisa Hegyesi – an Australian-based daughter of former Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos- says she was told when production company Shine Australia rang her on Monday to say she was no longer part of its planned Renovators show.
The Channel 10 series starts filming next week, with a team of professionals locked down in an apartment block and taken to various properties to make them over.
Hegyesi told us she made it to the final cut after months of auditions and interviews – but was dumped after she mentioned who her father was to producers last week.
“The thing is that I’ve had to juggle my business and clients to make time for the show after I was asked to audition and was then chosen from hundreds of people around Australia,” she told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.
“I was chosen on my own merits but then I was dropped due to aspects of my private life which I will not discuss.
“I was told there was a fear, too, attention would be paid to me and not the show and other contestants.”
A Shine insider told the Telegraph that staff thought it was harsh to drop her for “the sins of her father” who ruled the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 before he was deposed in a people’s revolution.
“A lot of people think it’s really unfair,” the source said.
Hegyesi was born in Australia to her mother Evelin, a former Sydney swimwear model.
A Ten spokeswoman claimed Hegyesi’s ejection was routine.
“Casting has not been finalised and we are still speaking to a number of different people,” she said.
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This brings back to mind a 2004 article, also in the SMH, on Hegyesi’s Marcos connection:
Hunt for tyrant’s millions leads to former model’s home
EXCLUSIVE | By Frank Walker
July 4, 2004
The Sun-Herald
A former Sydney swimwear model is at the centre of renewed attempts to locate millions of dollars sent out of the Philippines by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Evelin Hegyesi, who modelled mink bikinis in the 1970s and once graced the pages of Playboy magazine, is now a 57-year-old eastern suburbs multimillionaire with a waterfront Point Piper mansion and several investment companies.
She also has a Eurasian daughter, Analisa, now living with Dean Fleming, son of the wealthy racing and fruit markets family worth $270 million.
Analisa with Dean Fleming
She called the baby Analisa Josefa. Josefa is the name of Marcos’s mother.
An international investigation over several weeks by The Sun-Herald has uncovered documents that show that some of Ms Hegyesi’s Australian companies have financial links with secret Marcos accounts kept in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
They have come to light after Swiss authorities lifted the country’s notoriously strict bank secrecy laws, allowing investigators access to secret bank records of the dictator, who died in 1989.
The Sun-Herald last night revealed the contents of a dossier on the Australian link to the Marcos money to the Philippines authority charged with chasing the $10 billion the late dictator stole from his country.
A spokesman for the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) said they would examine the material: “Our mandate is to pursue the money Marcos stole, wherever it may lead us.”
The Sun-Herald has obtained a series of Swiss court judgements which detail the 18-year search for billions of dollars Marcos salted away before he was deposed in 1986.
Buried deep in a maze of documents is a reference to a mysterious Sydney link. The documents show that, in 1971, soon after Ms Hegyesi had a baby daughter, then president Marcos signed papers that made Ms Hegyesi’s company, Austraphil Pty Ltd, the “sole and only beneficiary” of one of his secret accounts.
It was called Azio Foundation.
Australian company searches revealed Ms Hegyesi had set up Austraphil just one year earlier on October 14, 1970. She was 23 years old and three months pregnant at the time.
In February 1971 Austraphil bought a five-bedroom mansion in Sydney’s most expensive area, Wyuna Road, Point Piper, for $210,000 (about $1.8 million in today’s money).
Land title papers and annual reports show Austraphil had a loan of $250,000 (about $2 million in today’s money) from a Swiss firm called Finanz AG of Zurich. Finanz AG was a subsidiary of the Swiss SKA Bank, now called Credit Suisse. This was the main bank used by Marcos as the front for his Swiss secret accounts.
Marcos had many of his secret accounts at SKA, including “foundations” dubbed Azio, Charis, Avertina, Vibur and Valamo.
The court investigation, which was heard at Die Bezirksanwaltschaft, Zurich, found millions of dollars came from illegal sources. It revealed Finanz AG Zurich was frequently used by Marcos to distribute money from his personal accounts so it could not be traced.
Marcos set up Azio on June 21, 1971, with 100,000 Swiss francs – about $1.8 million in today’s money. Swiss court documents show that, on November 12, 1971, Marcos signed documents making Austraphil the sole beneficiary of his Azio Foundation.
That lasted a year until December 4, 1972, when Marcos changed the Azio beneficiary to another of his foundations called Charis. Bank records disappeared after this point.
Court papers show that Marcos siphoned $US23 million ($169 million in today’s money) from Japan’s war reparations into Charis. There is no suggestion Ms Hegyesi would have been aware of these transactions.
She paid off the loan to buy the Point Piper mansion in 1976, transferring ownership to her own name. She sold the mansion in 1999 for $6.2 million, moving to a waterfront apartment she bought for $1.48 million.
Australian listings show Ms Hegyesi set up several companies over the following years.
In April 1972 she set up Australasia Trading and Investment Corporation. In August 1973 she set up Lima Investments, which had Austraphil as a major shareholder. Annual reports show Finanz AG lent Lima $100,000 ($800,000 in today’s money) as an unsecured loan. Lima invested in a West Australian cattle property called Drysdale River Station.
Court documents show that, between 1982 and 1985, Marcos’s Vibur Foundation sent several transfers totalling $US200,000 ($700,000 in today’s money) to Credit Suisse Hong Kong marked “Vienna/Sydney”.
The court documents maintain: “This money was obviously destined for Evelin Hegyesi in Sydney and Anita Langheinz in Vienna.”
The court documents also said that in 1982 there were several payments from Marcos’s Vibur Foundation to an account at the Bank of NSW (now known as Westpac).
“As shown in the ongoing instructions, there were regular transfers of money which obviously went to Evelin Hegyesi,” the court concluded.
“The same Vibur Foundation account paid some administrative costs and payments in Australian dollars to the SKA bank subsidiary Finanz AG,” the court found.
The former model lived for more than 30 years on the ritziest peninsula in Sydney. She made millions from property deals but managed to keep a low profile among the eastern suburbs social set.
She made many trips back to southern Germany, where she was born. She had come to Australia in the late 1940s when she was just two years old with her Hungarian-born parents, Theresa and Anton.
It is not clear how she came to be connected with Marcos in 1970. But something happened that prompted the president to assign one of his secret Swiss bank accounts to her new company, Austraphil.
While her mother eschewed parties, daughter Analisa is described by social writers as “exotic”, “vivacious” and “flamboyant”, with a super-curvy body.
She and her partner bought a $4.5 million four-bedroom waterfront mansion on the end of Darling Point and last year they had a baby girl, Tahni.
Ms Hegyesi was not at her apartment last week and did not return messages and letters forwarded by friends and colleagues.
