Feng Shui master won’t inherit eccentric billionaire’s estate

A judge in Hong Kong ruledTuesday that the estate of the billionaire known as Little Sweetie willnot be going to her feng shui master, who also claimed to have been herlover.  Tony Chan, a feng shui master and the married lover of Nina Wang, whowas before her death Asia’s richest woman, was surrounded byjournalists as he left an office building in Hong Kong on Tuesday.   Justice Johnson Lam ruledinstead that the billionaire, Nina Wang, intended to leave her estateto her charity, the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, under a will thatshe drew up in 2002. Mrs. Wang, once the richest woman in Asia, died ofcancer in 2007 at the age of 69. He also invalidated a “feng shuiwill” from 2006, saying her signature had been forged. That will wouldhave given Mrs. Wang’s entire fortune to her onetime spiritual adviser,Tony Chan. Estimates of Mrs. Wang’s estate have ranged from $4 billionto nearly $13 billion.  Mrs. Wang, an engaging eccentric whowore pigtails and miniskirts well into middle age, was the chairwomanof the Chinachem Group, a real estate and development conglomerate thatshe and her husband, Teddy Wang, had built together. They also foundedthe Chinachem charity in 1988.

More:  International Herald Tribune/NYT:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/world/asia/03hong.html