Wealthy people are definitely different. Not content with having her father publicly “out” her and drag her through the world’s press by offering a HK$500 million bounty for a husband to make her straight, lesbian Gigi Chao has now given a full sit-down talk to Hong Kong Tatler. Sorry, that should read full sit down helicopter ride, with pilot Gigi at the controls as she whisks the scribe over dad Cecil’s Pok Fu Lam spread Villa Cecil, which also doubles as her helicopter pad.
What emerges from the several pages of surprisingly unsycophantic prose is how sanguine Gigi claims to be about something that must have caused her considerable embarrassment. And for most daughters, would have been enough to sour relations with Papa for years. Not so Gigi.
Her description of the events last September which followed her low key Paris civil partnership wedding to fellow lesbian and partner of seven years Sean Eav will no doubt raise a few eyebrows.
Bachelor Cecil, 76, warned she’d never be accepted in high society unless she was married to a man.
This is indeed rich, coming from the notorious lothario, who proudly claims to have bedded more than 10,000 women, and never married any of the mothers of his three children, of whom Gigi at 33 is the eldest. The following day, Tatler reports, he called a press conference and announced to the media that Gigi was neither gay nor married.
More than 20,000 would be swains besieged her Facebook page. War veterans, gay men and even George Clooney’s former body double made offers. One man wrote every day for five months, describing his erotic fantasies about her. A mainland Chinese woman offered her own husband. The things people will do for money.
There was also hate mail, abusive and threatening emails and a package of medicine to cure her of her “ailment.” The poor girl was so run off her feet she had to employ someone to process all the messages. She was amazed to find a crowd of Casanovas camped out in the lobby of the family offices, Cheuk Nang Plaza in Wan Chai, when she tried to go to work – she runs model management and public relations company Haut Monde Talent. Bearing chocolates and red roses they had flown in from Africa, the Middle East and Europe to try to woo her.
