Hong Kong - Asia's richest woman Nina Wang wanted to have a child with the feng shui master who was allegedly her secret lover and to whom she left her multi-billion-US-dollar fortune, a court heard Tuesday. Ian Mill, lawyer for feng shui master Tony Chan, said Wang attempted to seek medical treatment in order to have his child during their 15-year affair which ended with her death at the age of 69 in 2007. Earlier reports spoke of an alleged 14-year relationship.
Mill said Wang left her fortune to Chan and gave him huge cash sums because he had been "her confidante, her companion ... and the object of her love for the last 15 years of her life."
Speaking on the second day of the two-month hearing into Wang's contested estate, Mill said Chan visited Wang at the hospital where she died of ovarian cancer and was "her companion to the end."
He said that video and audio recordings would be presented to prove the love affair between them along with Wang's trademark pigtails which she cut off and gave to Chan.
Earlier, at the end of his opening submissions, a lawyer representing Wang's family through a charitable foundation said the 2006 will leaving her fortune to Chan was not genuine.
Rather, Dennis Chang argued, it was a document used in a superstitious ritual to prevent her from dying.
Chang argued that Wang had been persuaded to sign it as part of a series of traditional rituals she was led to believe would save her life.
An earlier will of Wang exists, in which she leaves her estate, estimated at up to 100 billion Hong Kong dollars (13 billion US dollars), to a variety of charities.
The alleged affair between Wang and Chan is said to have begun three years after Wang's tycoon husband Teddy was kidnapped in 1990, never to reappear.
Wang inherited the Chinachem empire after Teddy's disappearance, confounding critics by building it up into a multi-billion-dollar business conglomerate.
Ironically, the eccentric, pig-tailed billionaire fought an eight-year legal battle herself with her elderly father-in-law who claimed Teddy's will leaving his fortune to her was also a forgery. She ultimately won the case.
