Hong Kong sex scandal star in court over explicit photos

[Coventina]

Source: The Guardian

The star at the heart of a sex scandal which has gripped China told a court today that it was "a very huge shock" when thousands of photographs of him in bed with women including well-known Hong Kong actors and singers surfaced on the web.

Edison Chen was testifying against a man accused of accessing his laptop, which held the shots. The Chinese-Canadian actor and singer quit the entertainment business last year, after weeks of lurid headlines and pictures in Hong Kong erased his previously clean-cut image.

The story became such an obsession that it crashed several servers and prompted the intervention of the territory's Catholic bishop, who urged people not to forward the photographs. On the mainland, some pages discussing the scandal received more than 25m hits.

Chen, who fled to his childhood home of British Columbia after the affair shattered his career, attended a Vancouver courtroom today to testify against Ho Chun Sze. Ho faces three counts of obtaining access to a computer with illegal intent.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/24/edison-chen-court-testimony-sex-scandal

[mackerel]

1. I had never even heard of this before. I'm not sure I understand

what the problem is. Something like this would make you a bigger star here in the states.

[Tindalos]

2. Not in Hong Kong

They're still quite conservative about things like this. Indiscretion can ruin a career.