'I was addicted to prostitutes' top Chinese-American investor told police after arrest

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Charles Xue appears in a video clip released by the Beijing police. Photo: screenshot via Weibo

Published: 11:25am, 29 Aug 2013Updated: 12:29pm, 29 Aug 2013

Explicit details of the private life of Chinese-American investor and social media celebrity Charles Xue have emerged along with a video showing him admitting an addiction to prostitutes.

In the latest twist to China’s crackdown on internet celebrities and so-called “rumour mongers, Beijing police on Wednesday released more details regarding the arrest of Xue, better known for his online alias "Xue Manzi". Xue was detained in Beijing last week for his suspected involvement with prostitutes.

Video footage shows Xue answering the door of an apartment, where he was allegedly caught having sex with a prostitute, surnamed Zhang, when police went there last Friday. He is later seen in a Chinese jail wearing an inmate’s suit and being escorted by guards. By the end of the clip, Xue confessed to having sex with a prostitute named “A Yun.”

“I was addicted [to prostitution], ” Xue is heard saying in the recording.

Police also accused Xue of being involved in “assembling the public to engage in promiscuous sex,” after new evidence showed Xue had sex with more than 10 prostitutes and on several occasions paid several of them to participate in orgies.

Liu Lin, a Beijing lawyer told China’s Legal Times the silver-haired Xue could face up to five years in jail if convicted of “assembling the public to engage in promiscuous sex”. In China, this is an offence which involves a person having sex with more than three other people.