Edison Chen photo crooks Batcuffed
“Edison Chen, a popular singer, actor and TV host in Asia,
was hoping American audiences would discover him when
Christopher Nolan’s newest installment in the Batman series,
“The Dark Knight” is released in the United States sometime
later this year. ” Ed Flanagan wrote for NBC News March 14th.
“Instead, Americans are getting their first taste of this young Hong Kong
actor via one of the largest sex scandals to hit the Hong Kong/Chinese film
scene in recent memory.”
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The movie also stars Heath Ledger, Christian Bale,
Michael Caine and Aaron Eckhart.
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The scandal, now known as the “Edison Chen Incident,”
exploded when digital photographs showing Chen apparently
performing sexual acts with other Hong Kong celebrities,
Bobo Chan and Gillian Chung, turned up on prominent
Hong Kong Internet bulletin boards systems and celebrity blogs.
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Days after the release of the photos, Hong Kong police tracked
the source of the photos to a computer service center where Chen
had taken his laptop for repairs.
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Police arrested eight employees of the service center in
connection with the photo release since the discovery,
Police announced that they believed over 1,300 racy photos
of celebrities had been stolen.
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Chen, who had developed a large teenage girl fan base in Asia
through his singing and acting roles, now finds himself at the center
of a nasty public backlash against his carefully cultivated image.
Chen has been in Canada since the scandal broke.
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