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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

[–] rgr101 15 years ago

I would rather not go down the slippery slope that is conspiracy theory. The press has not jumped on the bandwagon of exposing Ziyi's alleged scandal because they probably don't want to implicate themselves in any potential litigation. Ziyi's scandal remains, afterall, unproven. Until some concrete evidences come to light, the press, be it chinese or western, will take a lukewarm approach to its reporting. (Beside, China only takes a back seat in the consciousness of the general public in West, let alone some chinese star obscurely named ziyi zhang. Why would the western media outlet bother with something that not many of its readers are interested in?)