NewJournalist loses bid to throw out injunction case over 'lonely tai tai' documentary
The journalist who posted a YouTube documentary featuring the life of a rich housewife -- who flaunts her wardrobe and then tearfully admits her businessman husband is too busy for her -- has lost her bid to have the courts strike out an injunction lawsuit filed by the couple.
On Monday, High Court Master Katina Levy Law Suet-mui dropped Lorea Solabarrieta’s application to dismiss the lawsuit without trial.
Levy also disagreed with the defendant’s contention that businessman David Chor Ki-kwong had handled the case "oppressively". He has filed a slew of motions against her, which Solabarrieta described as a form of bullying.
As a project for her master’s degree in journalism in 2010, Solabarrieta, who used to work for TVB and CCTV, posted a 12-minute feature called The Life of a Hong Kong Tai Tai, starring David's wife Gloria. It was viewed more than 89,000 times before it was taken down last year.
I feel that I’m stuck in the middle of an issue between the husband and wife. I find that I am being used as a scapegoat
David Chor, in his 60s, had demanded that Solabarrieta, the daughter of a high school classmate, remove the video after he felt embarrassed by his wife’s tearful confessions, and scenes in which she showed off her Hermés and Gucci handbags.