Scandals Involving Women
In 1995, Wong was “banished” to the United States by his father following months of media attention concerning his affair with Annie Lu (呂安妮), a 27-year-old doctoral student at National Taiwan University, who is also his advisee. Lu publicly announced her love for the married man and, it was reported that she wrote a long letter to patriarch Wang Yung-ching requesting to join the family as his son’s concubine. Wang refused. The scandal died down after Wong left for California in December 1995. Lu is currently working in Hung Jen Group as Wong's personal assistant and have given birth to a son.
In 1998, Wong paid NT$3.2 million to Jo Jo Lin (林爰君), a woman who had approached Wong in 1996 on the pretext of wanting to invest in his Hung Jen Group. Wong, who was married at this time, paid that sum in an attempt to keep silent her claims that he had fathered a child by her and then abandoned them. When she went public anyway, Wong successfully sued her for blackmail and for damaging his reputation. Lin was found guilty of both charges, sentenced to 17 months in jail, and ordered to pay Wong NT$5.2 million in damages. Neither penalty was served, however, as Lin has been in hiding since March 2001. Wong also won a slander suit against Power News, for the unsubstantiated reports it published during this scandal.
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