SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian lady who says she is the half-sister of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appeared in a Sydney court docket on Friday on prices of inflicting a drunken disturbance on an airliner and pledged to not drink alcohol at airports or on planes whereas she is on bail.
Analisa Josefa Corr is accused of assaulting a fellow passenger exterior a airplane’s rest room after she and her husband, James Alexander Corr, allegedly consumed alcohol they’d introduced onto the flight and have become intoxicated. After the airplane landed in Sydney, they have been taken to a close-by police station and charged.
Analisa Corr, 53, says she is the daughter of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. a dictator who was ousted in a 1986 pro-democracy rebellion. He died in exile in Hawaii in 1989 at age 72. She additionally says she is the half-sister of the present president.
Marcos Jr. has beforehand dismissed studies of Corr’s relationship together with his father as “rumors.”
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Corr’s mom is Australian mannequin Evelin Hegyesi, who reportedly started an affair with Marcos Sr. within the Nineteen Seventies when she was 19 years outdated. He was married to Imelda Marcos, with whom he had three youngsters.
Corr and her husband appeared Friday in Downing Middle Native Courtroom, the place Deputy Chief Justice of the Peace Michael Antrum agreed to return their passports on circumstances together with that they don’t drink on plane or in Australian worldwide or home airport departure halls.
Additionally they agreed to deposit 20,000 Australian {dollars} ($12,400) every with the court docket, which shall be forfeited in the event that they breach the circumstances.
Her lawyer, Jasmina Ceic, informed the court docket her shopper wanted her passport to journey abroad.
“She’s presently endeavor a challenge in Indonesia and intends to remain there … till the top of March,” Ceic stated.
They’re charged with failing to adjust to cabin crew security instructions and with consuming alcohol not offered by flight attendants on a Jetstar home flight on Dec. 28 between Hobart and Sydney.
They pleaded not responsible to all prices throughout a court docket look on Monday. Their case will return to court docket on Feb. 24.
An internet biography describes Analisa Corr as an inside designer, photographer and proprietor of a pictures enterprise primarily based on the Gold Coast in Queensland state. Her center identify, Josefa, is the primary identify of Marcos Sr.’s mom.
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