HK$50,000 head rub became more intimate, court hears
Peter Brieger and Loretta Fong 13 May 2009
Like many a torrid affair, it started with an innocent massage.
When fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen was introduced to Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum in March 1992, the late billionaire complained of headaches and desperately wanted to find her kidnapped husband.
At first, Mr. Chan wasn’t too sure if he could be much help since Teddy Wang Teh-huei had disappeared without a trace two years earlier. But Mr. Chan, a one-time bartender-turned-fung shui master, said he could help Wang with her head pain.
“He offered to give her a head massage which ended up quickly becoming a body massage,” Denis Chang SC, barrister for the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, told the trial over Wang’s estate yesterday.
Wang’s charity and Mr. Chan are fighting for control of the estimated HK$100 billion estate.
The opening statement by Mr. Chan, submitted to the court yesterday, also referred to the head massage, saying Wang, reportedly Asia’s richest woman before her death in 2007, had paid him HK$50,000 for the initial head rub in 1992 and asked him for future sessions at her home in Chinachem Golden Plaza.
“Mrs Wang obviously took a liking to Mr. Chan and asked him to come and see her regularly over the following weeks,” said Mr. Chan’s 48-page opening statement. “Mrs Wang began to pay him increasingly large sums of money.”
It was not long before Wang and Mr. Chan, who had married another woman several weeks earlier, were carrying on a steamy affair.
At 32, Mr. Chan was about two decades younger than Wang, the statement said. “As might be expected given their respective age and status, Mrs Wang was the initiator of this intimacy.” Wang reassured the younger man she was not “playing games with him,” the statement said. “The payments Mr. Chan received may have played a part in his initial willingness to put himself at her disposal, but ... the relationship developed into a passionate romance.”
Earlier Mr. Chang conceded there had been a sexual relationship between the two, but argued they had not seen much of each other after 2002. Wang developed cancer in 2005 and died two years later.
Fung shui, which Mr. Chan used to brainwash Wang, was a “central element” to their relationship, Mr. Chang said. Mr. Chan countered that fung shui was just a ruse to cover up the affair. His statement also claimed Teddy Wang had left a posthumous instruction to his wife not to give any property to anyone in her family because they were all “disgusting”.
It said that when an envelope containing a 1990 will leaving the estate to Wang - which became the centre of a 10-year probate battle between Wang and her father-in-law, Wang Din-shin - was opened, it was found to hold four small envelopes. One held the will, while another contained a declaration that she should not share any property with “anyone of the Kung family because everyone of your Kung family is disgusting”.
What the two sides say
C= Chinachem
T= Tony Chan
Relationship between Nina Wang and Tony Chan
C Nina Wang refused to adopt Tony Chan’s son
T Wang wanted to have a baby with Mr. Chan
C Wang had an intimate relationship with Mr. Chan in the 1990s but not after 2002. He was just one of her fung shui consultants after 2002
T The pair were lovers for 14 years from when they met in 1992 after being introduced by a fung shui enthusiast
Authenticity of the will
C The 2006 will is a fung shui will Mr. Chan asked Wang to write
T A fung shui will should be burned and it should not be written in English
C Wang was too ill to write the 2006 will
T No doctors can say Wang was too ill to write the will in October 2006. Mr. Chan had no need for more money and he would not risk jail by forging a will
Mr. Chan’s credentials as a fung shui master
C Mr. Chan became a fung shui master after learning the skills from his father
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Massage led to love, says Tony Chan
HK$50,000 head rub became more intimate, court hears
Peter Brieger and Loretta Fong
13 May 2009
Like many a torrid affair, it started with an innocent massage.
When fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen was introduced to Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum in March 1992, the late billionaire complained of headaches and desperately wanted to find her kidnapped husband.
At first, Mr. Chan wasn’t too sure if he could be much help since Teddy Wang Teh-huei had disappeared without a trace two years earlier. But Mr. Chan, a one-time bartender-turned-fung shui master, said he could help Wang with her head pain.
“He offered to give her a head massage which ended up quickly becoming a body massage,” Denis Chang SC, barrister for the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, told the trial over Wang’s estate yesterday.
Wang’s charity and Mr. Chan are fighting for control of the estimated HK$100 billion estate.
The opening statement by Mr. Chan, submitted to the court yesterday, also referred to the head massage, saying Wang, reportedly Asia’s richest woman before her death in 2007, had paid him HK$50,000 for the initial head rub in 1992 and asked him for future sessions at her home in Chinachem Golden Plaza.
“Mrs Wang obviously took a liking to Mr. Chan and asked him to come and see her regularly over the following weeks,” said Mr. Chan’s 48-page opening statement. “Mrs Wang began to pay him increasingly large sums of money.”
It was not long before Wang and Mr. Chan, who had married another woman several weeks earlier, were carrying on a steamy affair.
At 32, Mr. Chan was about two decades younger than Wang, the statement said. “As might be expected given their respective age and status, Mrs Wang was the initiator of this intimacy.” Wang reassured the younger man she was not “playing games with him,” the statement said. “The payments Mr. Chan received may have played a part in his initial willingness to put himself at her disposal, but ... the relationship developed into a passionate romance.”
Earlier Mr. Chang conceded there had been a sexual relationship between the two, but argued they had not seen much of each other after 2002. Wang developed cancer in 2005 and died two years later.
Fung shui, which Mr. Chan used to brainwash Wang, was a “central element” to their relationship, Mr. Chang said. Mr. Chan countered that fung shui was just a ruse to cover up the affair. His statement also claimed Teddy Wang had left a posthumous instruction to his wife not to give any property to anyone in her family because they were all “disgusting”.
It said that when an envelope containing a 1990 will leaving the estate to Wang - which became the centre of a 10-year probate battle between Wang and her father-in-law, Wang Din-shin - was opened, it was found to hold four small envelopes. One held the will, while another contained a declaration that she should not share any property with “anyone of the Kung family because everyone of your Kung family is disgusting”.
What the two sides say
C= Chinachem
T= Tony Chan
Relationship between Nina Wang and Tony Chan
C Nina Wang refused to adopt Tony Chan’s son
T Wang wanted to have a baby with Mr. Chan
C Wang had an intimate relationship with Mr. Chan in the 1990s but not after 2002. He was just one of her fung shui consultants after 2002
T The pair were lovers for 14 years from when they met in 1992 after being introduced by a fung shui enthusiast
Authenticity of the will
C The 2006 will is a fung shui will Mr. Chan asked Wang to write
T A fung shui will should be burned and it should not be written in English
C Wang was too ill to write the 2006 will
T No doctors can say Wang was too ill to write the will in October 2006. Mr. Chan had no need for more money and he would not risk jail by forging a will
Mr. Chan’s credentials as a fung shui master
C Mr. Chan became a fung shui master after learning the skills from his father
T Mr. Chan is not a fung shui expert
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