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Chinese actress Fan Bingbing announced on Thursday she was suing exiled tycoon Guo Wengui in the United States for defamation, joining a queue of plaintiffs hitting back at the fugitive over largely unsubstantiated allegations.
In a statement posted on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, Fan’s management team accused the Chinese businessman of “malicious slander” that had “severely damaged [her] reputation”.
Guo, who now lives in New York, posted a video on YouTube last month, making allegations about a number of female celebrities, including Fan, and their connections to a senior Communist Party leader.
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“Guo Wengui’s false claims targeting Ms Fan published in overseas media were fabricated out of thin air,” Fan’s Weibo statement said.
It said Los Angeles-based law firm Lavely & Singer was representing Fan in the case and had started formal legal proceedings against Guo.




The statement also demanded Guo and “relevant platforms” immediately stop disseminating the claims against Fan.
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Xu Qing, another Chinese actress targeted by Guo, has also said she will sue Guo.
Fan, who starred in X-Men: Days of Future Past, is the latest in a string of public figures to sue Guo for defamation, joining journalist Hu Shuli and SOHO China Chief Pan Shiyi.
Chinese conglomerate HNA Group is also suing Guo for defamation in New York.


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X-Men actress Fan Bingbing says she is suing fugitive businessman Guo Wengui in the United States. Photo: Handout

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Guo's unit, which appears to be in 432 Park Avenue, has a 360-degree view, overlooking Central Park and offering views to the Statue of Liberty and the United Nations headquarters. Photo: Robert Delaney

This image shows Sherry Netherland Lobby. Ninety years ago, on the evening of April 12, 1927, wooden scaffolding surrounding the tower of the almost-completed 38-storey Sherry-Netherland Hotel (pictured) in Midtown Manhattan caught fire. Said to have been the world's tallest residential building at the time, its upper floors were far beyond the reach of the New York City Fire Department's hoses, but the blaze eventually burned itself out, and no lives were lost. [TRAVELLERS' CHECKS POST MAGAZINE]

Fugitive Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui has been living in New York for more than two years. Photo: Post Magazine

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