Controversy Over Cause of Death
In an interview with Apple Daily, published on 8 April 2007, Hong Kong shipping tycoon Cecil Chao hit back at gambling magnate Stanley Ho, who claimed that Wang's death was the consequence of her being parsimonious. Chao, who had known Wang for 40 years, reveals that the High Court ruling that went against Wang, and the follow-on forgery accusation, was a huge blow to her and took a severe toll on her health.
Mr. Chao also paid tribute to Wang, who recalled "In Little Sweetie (Wang's nickname), you just could not feel at all the arrogance of a billionaire, she did not like to be overly in the spotlight, she was a very humble person, very low key and also very astute".
On 8 April 2007, the Kung family announced they had drawn up a list of 45 people who would be members of the 'funeral arrangement committee'. In what some regard as an obvious snub, Mr. Ho was not invited to be a member of that committee.
Read more about this topic: Nina Wang
Famous quotes containing the words controversy and/or death:
“Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)