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Money still can't buy my love, says Gigi Chao after tycoon father doubles 'dowry' to HK$1b

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Gigi Chao (Left) and her father Cecil Chao Sze-tsung attend 2013 Hong Kong Professional Elite Ladies Selection in Causeway Bay in August 2013. Photo: SCMP

Even a billion dollars would not be enough to find a man that Gigi Chao, the lesbian daughter of property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, would be willing to marry.

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"I don't think my dad's offering of any amount of money would be able to attract a man I would find attractive," she told the after her father announced he had doubled the HK$500 million "dowry" that he had earlier offered in an effort to find her a husband.

Gigi Chao (right) with Sean Eav
Gigi Chao (right) with Sean Eav
In an interview with the Malaysian newspaper , Chao lamented that although his initial offer of HK$500 million in 2012 attracted more than 20,000 suitors, none succeeded in winning Gigi's heart. "I don't want to interfere with my daughter's private life," Cecil Chao said in the January 20 interview.

"I only hope for her to have a good marriage and children as well as inherit my business."

He also insisted that his daughter was still single and said he believed it was not too late to change Gigi's thinking because she was only 33.

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In an exclusive interview with the , Gigi responded to her father's latest offer.

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