Gigi Chao has said she is touched by
her father's $65 million “marriage bounty” to the man who can
sweep her off her feet.
Hong Kong-based billionaire Cecil Chao
Sze-tsung made the offer after reports that his daughter had entered
a domestic partnership with her long-term girlfriend, Sean Eav, in
France.
In addition to the “marriage bounty,”
he has offered capital to his potential son-in-law to start his own
business.
Speaking to the UK's The Telegraph,
Gigi Chao said she has been inundated with offers from prospective
male suitors from all over the world.
“It's not that he can't accept me,”
she said. “It's that he can't accept how society would view me and
the status that it would incur. Marriage is still a form of social
status.”
“At first I was entertained by it, and
then that entertainment turned into the realization and conviction
that I am a really lucky girl to have such a loving daddy, because
it's really sweet of him to do something like this as an expression
of his fatherly love.”
Chao added that she's bisexual and
would not confirm reports that she and her girlfriend tied the knot
in France, saying only: “I'm very happy when I'm with her.” (The
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