Edison Chen says some sex photos were taken by the girls
Chinese film star Edison Chen is surrounded by security as he leaves British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, February 23, 2009. Chen says he was shocked when private photos of him appeared on the Internet, causing a sex scandal in the celebrity-obsessed Asian nation. The Vancouver-born star was testifying Monday in a B.C. courtroom for the trial of Ho Chun Sze back in China. Sze faces three counts of obtaining access to a computer with illegal intent. (CP)
CIV – The Hong Kong pop star at the centre of a sex photos scandal says some of those photos were taken by the women who had sex with him.
(Note: On the second day of the hearing, Chen added that the 40 photos were all taken by ONE woman who had an affair with him in 2003. Guess who?)
Edison Chen was in court today in Vancouver, testifying in a case in which computer technician Sze Ho-chun, 23, was accused of distributing the photos of Chen performing sex acts with well-known starlets.
While Chen admitted that most of the 328 photos submitted in court today were taken by him, he claimed 40 of them were taken by the women in the photos.
Chen was ordered by the judge to answer a question raised by the defendent’s lawyer to identify the four women in the string of sex photos. The four names are: Cecilia Pak-Chi Cheung, Gillian Yan-Tung Chung, Bo Bo Man-Wun Chan and Rachel Sze-Wing Ngan.
Chen smiles while leaving the court house. (CP)
In the court today, Chen once refused to identify the women, saying they have suffered enough. But the judge insisted that he must answer the question.
This is the first time he admits to the identity of the women. Before that, only Gillian Chung has admitted publicly that one of the women in the photos was her.
Chen described the scandal as “torture”. He said the release of the photos was a “well-planned attack” on him and the women because they were uploaded to the net bit by bit and gradually, from smaller to larger quantities.
Chen said the photos were taken with the consent of two adults. He had not shown them to any third party and said he’d never meant to share the photos anyone else except the women he took the pictures with.
More than 50 reporters from Hong Kong and local Canadian media were at the court today covering the story.
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AFP:
Tags: Edison Chen, Photos, sex scandalCanto-pop star in court over sex photos
VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — The Hong Kong-Canadian pop star who took photos while having sex with a string of female celebrities told a court Monday he was shocked when the images were plastered across the Internet.
Edison Chen, one of Asia’s biggest entertainment stars, gave evidence in the case of Sze Ho-Chun, a computer technician charged in Hong Kong with illegally posting the explicit photos online.
The photos became an Internet sensation when they were posted last February, forcing Chen, 28, into early retirement and sending him fleeing to his childhood home of Canada.
The pictures showed Chen in compromising positions with various celebrities, including Canto-pop star Gillian Chung, actress Cecilia Cheung and former actress Bobo Chan.
Chen told the unusual hearing in Vancouver that the photos were his, but that they had been stored on a personal laptop computer that had gone missing last year.
He told the court he believed the release of the photos was due to “some foul play” by workers at a computer store he used in Hong Kong.
“I’m quite a private person,” said Chen. “This was never meant for anyone else to see.”
The hearing was scheduled for a week but wrapped up in just a day.
A crowd of two dozen photographers, many from Asian tabloids, mobbed Chen as he left the court building surrounded by burly private security guards.
Hong Kong’s Department of Justice flew a legal team, including Hong Kong’s chief magistrate, to Vancouver after Chen had refused to return to the southern Chinese city to give evidence.
The decision to fly over the legal team and the intensity of the original police investigation have been criticised in Hong Kong, with some claiming the case has garnered special attention because of Chen’s celebrity status.
The Vancouver native of Portuguese-Chinese parents was discovered a decade ago by a talent agent in a Hong Kong club and became an icon in the music, film and fashion industries in Asia.
Chen, whose full name is also known as Edison Chen Koon-hei, recorded 16 albums under the EEG (Emperor Entertainment Group) label, of which the latest is 2007′s “Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself.”
Before his retirement Chen had a cameo role in the 2008 Batman movie “The Dark Knight,” and a voice-over in the Cantonese version of the animated children’s movie “Shrek.”
But his career was destroyed by the appearance of hundreds of the sex photos, which caused a storm in celebrity-obsessed but culturally conservative Hong Kong.
Chen’s cause was not helped by the fact he was reportedly dating Vincy Yeung, the niece of the head of EEG, effectively Chen’s boss at the time.
He soon announced his retirement and said he would be focusing on charity work.
The scandal spread across Asia, where Hong Kong stars are hugely popular, with police in Taiwan and China arresting around a dozen people for allegedly possessing and distributing the photographs.
Despite his retirement, Chen’s fame has not faded.
He was the most-searched personality late last year in Asia, according to Google, and Asian media regularly report ongoing boycotts of restaurants and stores associated with his name.
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Hopefully the verdict is out that the technician(s) who stole the pictures will be GUILTY! Geek Squad did it to some people and got busted, I hope it does the same to them. However, laws in the U.S. is different from China. Like everyone says “It takes two to tangle =P” I feel as if some people who view it as an insult when (I’m pretty sure) they enjoy porn just as much as taking some. Don’t be liars people =)
well said! hahahaha
I think someone hacked into his computers via the internet … that’s why he had to bring them into the shop to fix them.
Where did his morality went?
And his mum even indicate in an interview saying he is such a good boy.. yada yada
Well if he is Mr.Good Boy then why he is avoiding to go into courts in HK?
He is just simply afraid that he will get bashed if he returns to HK. Totally have no intention on bearing his part of responsibility on this incident.
It doesn’t matter who took the pictures but it matters from who’s side it leaks out from. Why don’t you see the pictures leaking out from the female artist’s side? If Edison is the source of the trouble then be a man and bear up the responsibility. Don’t read out apology testimonies that were written by your lawyers or your mum!!!
To HK-Follower:
Yea, you do prove a point. Maybe he should have gone to court in HK, but if he was afraid for his life who wouldn’t be knowing the triads were after him? However, while the pictures were taken, couldn’t the female artists’ delete the pictures/videos themselves while they were still with Edison rather than letting Edison keep them? It doesn’t matter which side it leaked from because they invaded their private lives and wasn’t meant to be shown to anyone. As for his mother protecting him in that case, that’s what mother’s do even if they’re bad. Besides, I believe ALL men doesn’t have mortality when it comes their sexual desires ;)