Jiang Feng Dolby professes love for Bo Xilai's 'moneyman'

Jiang Feng Dolby, the nominal owner of a French villa that has become key evidence in Bo Xilai's trial, broke her silence yesterday, professing her love for the Dalian entrepreneur who prosecutors say played "money man" to Bo's family.

Jiang, a former China Central Television anchor, has often been portrayed on the internet as Xu's Ming's mistress and a gold digger.

Testimony has revealed that Jiang is the nominal owner of a luxury villa in Cannes bought by Xu on behalf of Bo's wife Gu Kailai in 2001. The villa returned to Xu's ownership in 2011 and was later passed to Jiang.

She shrugged off the controversy yesterday and said her love for Xu was real.

"I wouldn't have fallen in love with someone just because he is rich," she wrote in her verified Sina Weibo account. "By the same token, I would never turn somebody down just because he is not rich.

"In a love story between a single woman and a single man, there is no place for words like ' er nai' [mistress], ' xiao san' [kept woman] or ' bang da kuan' [gold digger]," she said.