Hong Kong businesswoman Winnie Ho, sister of casino tycoon Stanley Ho, dies aged 95, her spokeswoman confirms

She was thrust under the spotlight over her business dispute with her brother in the 2000s, and more recently in a court case highlighting an old affair with cousin and billionaire Eric Hotung

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Winnie Ho at a press conference at Conrad Hotel in Admiralty in 2006. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Published: 3:26pm, 24 Aug 2018Updated: 7:40pm, 24 Aug 2018

Businesswoman Winnie Ho Yuen-ki, the sister of gaming mogul Stanley Ho Hung-sun, has died of illness at the age of 95.

A controversial figure, Ho was pushed into the public eye over money disputes with her estranged brother and a court case detailing a secret affair with her cousin, the late philanthropist Eric Hotung. She died in June, but news of her death surfaced only this week.

Her spokeswoman, Donna Yau, confirmed to the Post that she died at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital on June 5 and would be buried in Chiu Yuen Cemetery on Mount Davis, near the westernmost edge of Hong Kong Island.

Stanley Ho and sister Winnie at a company meeting in 1993. Photo: SCMP

Ho’s grandfather was Ho Fook, the younger brother of influential colonial-era tycoon Robert Hotung. Born in Hong Kong, she later moved with her family to Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, in Vietnam in the early 1940s to flee the war. It was there that she developed an interest in the gaming industry.

She came back to Hong Kong and since the late 1950s, worked in the family business for 15 years.

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