Hong Kong 'playboy tycoon' offers $65 million to find husband for lesbian daughter
By NBC News
staff
Hong Kong
property and shipping magnate Cecil Chao Sze-tsung announced he would offer HK$500 million (about $65 million) to
the man who can woo and marry his 33-year-old daughter, Gigi Chao, the South
China Morning Post reported.
"It is an
inducement to attract someone who has the talent but not the capital to start
his own business," Chao told the
BBC.
"I don't
mind whether he is rich or poor. The important thing is that he is generous and
kind-hearted," he added. "Gigi is a very good woman with both talents
and looks. She is devoted to her parents, is generous and does volunteer
work."
According to
the Post report, the announcement came just one week after Chao's daughter
revealed she had married her female partner of seven years, Sean Eav, in France
earlier this year. The tycoon, 76, told
the Post the reports of his daughter being married were "false."
According to the article, same-sex marriage is not legally recognized in Hong
Kong, although civil unions are performed in France. Chao, whom the Post describes as "Hong
Kong's pre-eminent playboy tycoon," told the BBC that Gigi Chao was single
and needed a "good husband." Chao has never married himself, and he
once claimed to have slept with 10,000 women, the South
China Morning Post reported. According
to the BBC, Chao said he wouldn't force Gigi to marry a man against her will. Gigi Chao runs Haut Monde Talent, a modeling
and public relations company. She is the first of three children that Chao had
with different women, according to
the Global Post.
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My opinion of
this story is that the father will totally alienate his daughter from him. Can you imagine how many men are scheming at
this point? If she never trusted men
before, she surely won't now! If she ever did marry a man, how long until a divorce?
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