‘Accept me for who I am,’ tycoon Chao's lesbian daughter pleads

The lesbian daughter of a flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon, who offered millions of dollars to any man who could woo her into marriage, appealed to her father in an open letter to accept her for who she is.

Cecil Chao made world headlines in 2012 when he tried to find a man who could successfully win his daughter, Gigi Chao, away from her partner by offering 500m Hong Kong dollars (€47m), an offer that a Malaysian newspaper who interviewed him last week said he has doubled.

In a letter to her father published yesterday by two Hong Kong newspapers, Gigi Chao said she knows it’s “difficult for you to understand, let alone accept” how she could be romantically attracted to a woman.