Chinese Businessman Holds Talent Contest to Decide on the Mistress to Retain, Disaster Results

A Chinese businessman chose to hold a talent contest to decide which of his five mistresses he could retain. But an eliminated contestant drove the man and her rivals off a cliff.

A Chinese businessman, hit by the current economic downturn, chose to hold a talent contest to decide which of his five mistresses he could retain. But an eliminated contestant drove the man and her rivals off a cliff.

But it was the frustrated woman who died in the process. Others were only injured. Still she had exacted her revenge. Overwhelmed by it all, the other four too broke away.

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The icing in the cake is that the businessman’s legally wedded wife too walked out on him when she came to know of the developments.

Police initially thought the car had plummeted off a mountain road in eastern China on December 6 by accident. Then they learned of the contest through a letter the dead woman had left behind, the Shanghai Daily newspaper said.

The 29-year-old woman, identified only as Yu, was a waitress when she met the businessman at a restaurant in the coastal city of Qingdao in 2000.

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At the time, the businessman, identified only by his last name -- Fan -- was married and had four other mistresses, according to the Peninsula Metropolis Daily newspaper in Qingdao.

The women knew of one another, but none elected to break up with the man and give up their rent-free apartment and a 5,000 yuan ($730) monthly allowance, the reports said.

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When the economy soured, the businessman apparently decided to let go of all but one mistress.

He staged a private talent show in May, without telling the women his intentions. An instructor from a local modeling agency judged the women on the way they looked, how they sang and how much alcohol they could hold, the Shanghai Daily said.

The judge knocked out Yu in the first round of the competition based on her looks. Angry, she decided to exact revenge by telling her lover and the four other women to accompany her on a sightseeing trip before she returned to her home province, the media reports said.

It was during the trip that Yu reportedly drove the car off the cliff.

Fan shut down his company after the crash and paid Yu's parents 580,000 yuan ($84,744) as compensation for her death.

Since his wife too has deserted him now, the overweening businessman should be looking for some other concubine, but it is not clear what he intends to do.

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