Re: No way, this was reported in HK years ago and in Overseas Chinese press
- From: ggg <goodgutgut@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:01:14 GMT
Americans can't tell what kind of Hongkong woman she is, right? This picture isn't better than a thousand words:
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/61774.htm
'CHINESE MOB' GAL SLAMS 'ART THIEF' HUBBY
By LUKAS I. ALPERT
SPLIT HAPPENS: John Ackerman and his estranged wife, Annie Yau, outside Manhattan court yesterday. "People say the ugliest things," she said. Photo: New York Post SPLIT HAPPENS: John Ackerman and his estranged wife, Annie Yau, outside Manhattan court yesterday. "People say the ugliest things," she said.
March 31, 2006 -- WILD TALES FLY IN DIVORCE BATTLE
A bitter divorce case swirling with international intrigue and allegations of attempted art theft and Chinese Mafia involvement reared its ugly head in a Manhattan court yesterday.
According to John Ackerman, 48, his estranged wife, Annie Yau, squirreled away $1.2 million he gave for her to build up a Chinese-art business, investing some into a Hong Kong brothel and funneling the rest into property and her parents' bank account.
She had incessant affairs during their two-year marriage, the millionaire real-estate broker said - and even taught their toddler son to call him "Wang Ba Dan," Chinese for cuckold or "son of a bitch."
Ackerman claims Yau, 30, said she would run off to China with their son and threatened to call friends connected to Chinese gangsters who could make "things would happen to him," according to papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Yau insists the accusations are lies.
"All of these things are untrue. It's a divorce case - people say the ugliest things," the petite Yau told The Post after an acrimonious custody hearing before Justice Joan Lobis, where she just glowered at her estranged hubby.
Yau said the nastiness stems from the purchase of ancient Chinese art the couple made at Sotheby's in 2004 on behalf of the Chinese government.
After the sale - for which Ackerman fronted the money - she said he tried to keep the art. When she refused, she says, he filed for divorce in order to keep the artifacts for himself.
Lobis sided with Yau and the pieces were sent to the National Museum in Beijing. That's when things got truly nasty, Yau says.
"My husband was trying to steal them and he didn't succeed, and now he wants revenge," she said.
But Ackerman says his wife and her family - prominent art dealers in Hong Kong - conned him after they met there in 2001 and married six weeks later.
"I was very attracted to her, I thought she was attracted to me," he said. "But it was all a set-up. She was just a very savvy businesswoman, extremely charming. She could charm the shirt off your back, and she has - to me at least."
He says she is an unfit mother who has beaten their now-4-year-old son, Michael, an allegation she denies.
The situation is unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, said Ackerman's lawyer, Harvey Sladkus.
He pointed to the fact that Yau hired divorce attorney William Beslow - who has represented high-profile clients such as Mia Farrow, Patricia Duff and Marla Maples, and has a reputation for not settling. Beslow declined comment.
Sladkus said his client is ready to fight it out, and "just wants to make sure his son is protected."
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