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The Most Heated Topic in China

posted 15 years ago by shengtaozhangziyi
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Ziyi Zhang, a famous Chinese actress starring in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), is being suspected by millions of Chinese netizens of fraud fund-raising.

She was reported to have appealed for donations to the Wenchuan earthquake victims from the celebrities participating in the Cannes Film Festival 2008. The money she collected was 1 million US dollars, according to her statement.

To date, no charity organization confirms to have received this sum of money.

An official statement she released on Jan. 28, 2010 claimed that the donations from the celebrities were just verbally promised and were still pending.

The co-organizer of the charity party was Caroline Gruosi-Scheufel, the CEO of Chopard. Other celebrities participating in the charity event included Roberta Armani, the niece of Giorgio Armani, Madonnas ex-husband Guy Ritchie, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter Eric Mika, and Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate of the French Association of the International Film Festival.

According to one of Vivi Nevos (her fiance) friends, Ziyi Zhang actually collected 2 million US dollars which had been deposited into her personal account, reported by a Chinese magazine the Southern Entertainment Weekly on Feb. 2, 2010.

More details can be found from tianya, the biggest and most popular public forum in China:

http://www.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/funinfo/1/1788422.shtml

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[–] shengtaozhangziyi 15 years ago

Yes, I believe you can and we Chinese people would be grateful to you for taking the person who lies to the public, embezzles the charity fund and sleeps with dozens of married man!

Oh, a gentle reminder to you: Please watch out your husband if you are a married woman!

BTW, please click the following link to see the CNN iReport:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-404822

[–] Acropolisnow 15 years ago

Lots of comments of pissed off people on that link. They are basically saying provide the evidence if it's not true. She won't. She is saying these famous people promised her money and never gave it to her. A no win situation for her.

[–] rgr101 15 years ago

Please ignore this poster timc. Never try to reason with fanatical fans. Nothing more than a bunch of rabie mobs. They will bite you hard at the slightest hints of criticism levelled at their so-called idols. Truly pathetic..........

[–] shengtaozhangziyi 15 years ago

Thank you very much for your reply.

We have no choice but to post her scandal here since no official media in China would like to give an objective report on this event. Up to date, no response is heard from the Chinese official organizations though tons of evidence on her fraud fundraising are found.

We have no bias on Ziyi Zhang as an actress. What we criticize is her cheating on the charity money.

We need to know the truth, and we also hope this event will arouse the attention of the public to charity and perfect the administrative system on it.

Please help us spread this news to your friends. Thanks!

[–] PHallowed 15 years ago

Why do all these English articles say "allegedly," to avoid legal issues perhaps?

After the Szechuan earthquake, Zhang Ziyi's donations and fundraiser at Cannes were widely reportedly in Chinese media. Many specifically reported her saying "I received 1 million U.S. dollars"

If NONE of them were true, why didn't she step up and say so?

If she didn't get $1 million U.S. dollars, why did she say she did?

Then people want to find out the whereabouts of the money--now she says she has been lied to. How stupid does she think everybody is?

http://torisefromashes.blogspot.com/

[–] shengtaozhangziyi 15 years ago

I don't know how much money Ziyi Zhang has spent on this event.

At the very beginning, the public forum of the major websites in China were occupied by the comments supporting her which were suspected to be posted by the writers she hired and all the posts criticizing her were immediately deleted by the editors. That's why we choose to post her scandal on the foreign websites.

To our pity, we found out that a post talking about her fraud fundraising on CNN's iReport which had been heatedly discussed had also been deleted. I would rather believe CNN and hope that's not caused by Zhang's reaction to her crisis. I wish CNN would be clean. But who knows?

A piece of advice to Ziyi Zhang: fraud charity fund-raising is a legal issue, don't try to deal with it like a common public affair.

The original website of CNN's report was as follows:

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-404822