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HONG KONG : Chinese actress Li Bingbing, who recently won the Best Actress award at the 46th Golden Horse Awards for her role in spy thriller "The Message", may have been married since 1999, according to Chinese media reports.
Li, 34, reportedly said that she had a businessman husband during an obscure interview with a Chinese magazine ten years ago.
She said at that time that she "wanted to be taken care of" and hence picked "an older man who could give her a sense of security".
In 2001, when Li had just begun her acting career, she was already living at the well-known Guan Cheng Yuan luxury apartment complex in Beijing and drove a white Porsche 740. Chinese reporters checked the ownership records of both her apartment and her car and found that a Mr Shi Tao owned both assets.
The apartment complex's car washer said that Li and Mr Shi "were living together", describing Shi as "a stout, be-spectacled man in his 40s with a shaved head".
His description of Shi matched the appearance of a mystery man Li was photographed with earlier this year.
Though Li's manager denied that the actress is married, he also said "he was her manager only after 2004 and was unclear about her affairs before then".
Media reports cite these revelations from Chinese sources and her manager's ambiguous reply as evidence that she had been secretly married for at least a decade.
Li is no stranger to controversy. She was also involved in a scandal with Ken Zhu, a member of the defunct Taiwanese boyband F4, while shooting the drama series "City of Sky" in April 2005.
The pair allegedly entered a hotel together, got a room and then kissed intimately in the doorway.
– CNA/ha
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