Zhang Ziyi Being Investigated for Prostitution
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi refused to appear at the Cannes Film Festival to promote her upcoming movie Dangerous Liaisons and refused an invitation to present the Palme d’Or Award. Why? Because she’s been barred by the Chinese government from leaving the country due to an ongoing investigation into whether or not she had sex with government officials for cash.
Sources allege Zhang (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, Rush Hour 2) was paid almost $950,000 to sleep with China’s former Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai and had sex at least 10 times between 2004 to 2007 or 2007 to 2011 depending on which site you read. Zhang raised her rate to $1.5M after the first time. It’s said that Xu Ming, Bo’s associate and founder and chairman of Dalian Shide Group, introduced the two and has admitted as much.
Reports allege that Zhang has also slept with other officials making around $110M over the course of 10 years. This includes $28M in cash from Xu Ming. Xu is said to have pimped her out to two other high-level officials as well.
For her part, Zhang and her people have denied the allegations saying they won’t let this stand. In an ominous sounding statement, Zhang’s team wrote:
“Friends have advised us to release a short statement and not take this seriously,” Zhang’s team continued, “The more you argue, the more you will stir up. It would be better to step aside until people lose interest and the lies disappear. The innocent will always be innocent. ”
“But this time we don’t want to be silent. If we leave these lies to spread, what is completely untrue will be at risk of becoming a half-truth,” the statement read, “This time, we are telling those rumor-makers that we will respond. We will prove our side of the story; we’ll seek legal justice; we’ll find you in the darkest corner and go after you.”
“We will seek justice for Zhang Ziyi by taking legal action against Apple Daily and against any other media publishing these false reports. ” China.org.cn
she was involved in a scandal a few years ago during the 2008 earthquake in china, where she raised a ton of money but the money remained in her bank account for more than a year and a half because ~she forgot about it~
ps: also in the article, she allegedly slept with Bo Xilai, and he was involved in a scandal for the murder of a british business man in china.
there's freida, charice, etc etc. it's usually their looks that's targeted too. that and our standards of beauty are ridiculous as fuck.
don't get on me fellow Asians, this is my personal observation
It's shameful but not uncommon.
I think it's interesting because in the West / US she is (or was) the go-to Azn girl and a beauty~, but in China and Hong Kong she's seen as THE basic bitch. IDRC either way.
and then it always makes me wonder about how i'm perceived by asians vs westerners. :(
that's a lot of money
Yeah I mean I don't judge her for sleeping with them but it's not fair that she's being punished and they aren't
where is their backlash, you knew it was illegal so why are you aiding in it, sit down
http://laineygossip.com/Articles/Detail
Shit sis you are spilling some tea today!
Idk 110 million is a lot of money.
We all talk conspiracy theories all day but when people have actual proof like here, people go "OH NO it must be fake, it could never happen"
it does and can
lmao This is like some Dark Knight shit.
in liam neeson voice and all
we will find you
Lucy Liu is my lifespiration though. If she was involved in something like this I'd be devastated.
She is too busy appearing in my dreams every night.
Edited at 2012-05-31 10:52 am (UTC)
Surely, if you got that sum of money you'd totally haul your ass to some desert island with Godfrey Gao in tow.
yum
EnglandGodfrey.As a one-time deal, I could prob. do that.
But I feel bad even joking about it when this poor woman was probably coerced into whatever happened (I def. don't think she was sleeping with these dudes for shits and giggles, and I wonder what happened to her super-rich fiance from a few years ago? :()
damn at the amount, go on with your bad self ziyi.
Our lady Ziyi, holy labia of light, her career died for our sins.