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Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Allegation filmmaker died having sex with prostitute leads to suit
The family of late film director Xie Jin have lodged a libel suit against celebrity watchdog Song Zude over allegations the revered filmmaker died while having sex with a prostitute in a hotel.
Allegation filmmaker died having sex with prostitute leads to suit
Vivian Wu 24 February 2009
The family of late film director Xie Jin have lodged a libel suit against celebrity watchdog Song Zude over allegations the revered filmmaker died while having sex with a prostitute in a hotel.
Xie’s widow, Xu Dawen, filed the suit in Shanghai’s Jingan District People’s Court yesterday, asking for 500,000 yuan (HK$567,974) in compensation for mental suffering caused by Song’s remarks.
Song’s business partner and brother, Liu Xinda, who claimed to have seen Xie in the hotel, was also named as a defendant.
Song, a 40-year-old self-proclaimed poet, successful movie producer and a mainland media commentator, wrote in his blog that the 85-year-old movie maker died in October while having sex.
The article was a bombshell and Song soon came in for criticism, with a state media censor calling him a black sheep who should be kicked out of the mainland media industry.
Ms. Xu’s suit also asked that Song desist from damaging her family’s reputation, make a prominent public apology and pull relevant articles from his blogs on several popular portal websites.
“The two defendants deliberately twisted facts and promoted the blogs with evil intent to humiliate on a global scale, to satisfy their aims for self publicity,” Ms. Xu said in her indictment.
“Such libels against Xie Jin have had a serious impact.
“I do this to safeguard Xie’s reputation,” she added.
Ms. Xu’s lawyer, Fu Minrong, said the plaintiff had concrete evidence that “the facts they presented in their blog articles were all untrue”.
“For example, in their blog articles, Song said his partner Liu Xinda heard Xie Jin bargaining with the prostitute over the price at 2am, but a medical appraisal said Xie died at 1am,” Mr. Fu said.
Song said yesterday he “fully welcomed that Xie’s family had finally taken the case through legal channels” and he was 100 per cent confident of winning the case.
“We have been waiting for their submission to the court for too long. They should have sued earlier, and I cannot wait to go to court now,” he said.
“We have concrete evidence, and we will definitely win the case.”
Song said that unlike his usual practice of sending lawyers to defend him, this time he would appear in court.
“I will go to defend myself, personally, with two lawyers as my assistants,” Song said.
“I am more capable and experienced than my lawyers. That old woman has been saying in the media that she would sue. I am happy to see that she has finally done it.”
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Allegation filmmaker died having sex with prostitute leads to suit
Vivian Wu
24 February 2009
The family of late film director Xie Jin have lodged a libel suit against celebrity watchdog Song Zude over allegations the revered filmmaker died while having sex with a prostitute in a hotel.
Xie’s widow, Xu Dawen, filed the suit in Shanghai’s Jingan District People’s Court yesterday, asking for 500,000 yuan (HK$567,974) in compensation for mental suffering caused by Song’s remarks.
Song’s business partner and brother, Liu Xinda, who claimed to have seen Xie in the hotel, was also named as a defendant.
Song, a 40-year-old self-proclaimed poet, successful movie producer and a mainland media commentator, wrote in his blog that the 85-year-old movie maker died in October while having sex.
The article was a bombshell and Song soon came in for criticism, with a state media censor calling him a black sheep who should be kicked out of the mainland media industry.
Ms. Xu’s suit also asked that Song desist from damaging her family’s reputation, make a prominent public apology and pull relevant articles from his blogs on several popular portal websites.
“The two defendants deliberately twisted facts and promoted the blogs with evil intent to humiliate on a global scale, to satisfy their aims for self publicity,” Ms. Xu said in her indictment.
“Such libels against Xie Jin have had a serious impact.
“I do this to safeguard Xie’s reputation,” she added.
Ms. Xu’s lawyer, Fu Minrong, said the plaintiff had concrete evidence that “the facts they presented in their blog articles were all untrue”.
“For example, in their blog articles, Song said his partner Liu Xinda heard Xie Jin bargaining with the prostitute over the price at 2am, but a medical appraisal said Xie died at 1am,” Mr. Fu said.
Song said yesterday he “fully welcomed that Xie’s family had finally taken the case through legal channels” and he was 100 per cent confident of winning the case.
“We have been waiting for their submission to the court for too long. They should have sued earlier, and I cannot wait to go to court now,” he said.
“We have concrete evidence, and we will definitely win the case.”
Song said that unlike his usual practice of sending lawyers to defend him, this time he would appear in court.
“I will go to defend myself, personally, with two lawyers as my assistants,” Song said.
“I am more capable and experienced than my lawyers. That old woman has been saying in the media that she would sue. I am happy to see that she has finally done it.”
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