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The Star Online > News > Asia
Sunday, February 24, 2002
Ex-politician in sex scandal to sing in Singapore TAIPEI: A former Taiwan politician caught on hidden camera having sex with a married man will take up a new career in singing, a local cable network reported on Friday.Chu Mei-feng plans to hold a three-day concert in Singapore in mid-March for US$83,000 (RM315,400), ETTV quoted a Singaporean organiser as saying. Chu is expected to sing a few old standards by late Taiwan songstress Teresa Teng, but no other details were immediately available. The 35-year-old TV reporter-turned politician became one of the best known women in the Chinese speaking world after a tabloid magazine gave away video discs showing her having sex with a married man at her home. Chu’s estranged friend, Kuo Yu-ling, who installed the hidden camera in her bedroom and sold the footage to the Scoop magazine, was released on bail on Friday. Prosecutors sought a four-year sentence for Kuo, who was charged with violating privacy law, undermining public morality, theft and forgery. “One thing that I am proud of is I manage my family successfully and well,” Kuo said at a local temple. “We should be sincere and kind to everybody,” Kuo said. She did not comment on the case. Prosecutors also called for Chu’s former boyfriend Tsai Jen-chien, an ex-mayor of Hsinchu to be jailed for a year on charges of violating the island’s privacy law for helping to install the camera. Chu recently published a book detailing affairs with six lovers and gave a lengthy live television interview with cable news station TVBS, the publisher of the book. — Reuters
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