Isabel Rosario Cooper

August 15, 2019

Archivo 1984
Pasillo 18, La Fuerza Compound 1, 2241 Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City

An exhibition by artist Miljohn Ruperto, opening

Isabel Rosario Cooper, better known by her stage name “Dimples Cooper,” was for most of her life, one of the most fascinating and mysterious femmes fatale in Philippine history, the Jezebel who seduced General Douglas MacArthur, one of the most powerful men of his time. She was the woman MacArthur would jeopardize his presidential ambitions for, and he would draw the ire of his mother by carrying on a passionate love affair with Cooper—an affair documented in a stash of love letters and cablegrams which, according to Stanley Karnow’s In Our Image, “bear the imprint of an impassioned schoolboy.”