'Edison's Conquests' Sex Photos - Spread By Showbiz Insider?
8 February 2008
batgwa.com has reason to believe that a show-business insider was spreading images related to the ongoing sex photos scandal. Yesterday at 10:45 GMT, the news desk received an email containing 12 images, purportedly of Gillian Chung (鍾欣桐) giving Edison Chen (陳冠希) oral sex, that had already surfaced the day before.
The email had the Simplified-Chinese subject heading "The innocent Gillian Chung" (纯情的阿娇钟欣桐), but did not contain any text except for a general email footer.
The batgwa.com email address that the message was sent to had never been publicly listed and had only ever been used for communication with other media companies.
batgwa.com managing editor Gerry Ho said: "We are incredibly curious to know who sent us this message. The email address it was sent to has never been listed on the 'Contact Us' or 'About Us' pages of our website. It has only ever been given to music and film companies for them to send us press material. And we have only ever used it to send out press releases to other media outlets such as newspapers.
"While it is not unfathomable that a person or spambot guessed the address, I think it is unlikely. Why would someone send to this address when there are so many other addresses publicly listed on our website?
"If – and it's a big 'if' – it was not a lucky guess, then there's a big chance that whoever sent the message works within the media machine.
"We replied to the message to ask the person who he or she is, but have not had any response. The mystery sender used one of those accounts anybody can set up on GMail in a matter of minutes. However, we cannot reveal his or her full address, because he or she did not say whether or not the message was on the record."
Meanwhile, reporters for The Sun, a Hong Kong newspaper, went to Boston, USA, to track down Edison's current girlfriend Vincy Yeung (楊永晴). She said that she stands by Edison but refused to comment further.
The newspaper also reported that Bobo Chan (陳文媛), another celebrity implicated by the scandal, had her upcoming wedding called off on the orders of her fiancé’s mother.
It is also being purported by Hong Kong media and by netizens that Mandy Chen (陳育嬬) is one of the women in the photos leaked on Wednesday. It was rumoured that she got to know Edison in 2001 when he performed at a beauty pageant that she was competing in.
Reporter: Alex Au
8 February 2008
batgwa.com has reason to believe that a show-business insider was spreading images related to the ongoing sex photos scandal. Yesterday at 10:45 GMT, the news desk received an email containing 12 images, purportedly of Gillian Chung (鍾欣桐) giving Edison Chen (陳冠希) oral sex, that had already surfaced the day before.
The email had the Simplified-Chinese subject heading "The innocent Gillian Chung" (纯情的阿娇钟欣桐), but did not contain any text except for a general email footer.
The batgwa.com email address that the message was sent to had never been publicly listed and had only ever been used for communication with other media companies.
batgwa.com managing editor Gerry Ho said: "We are incredibly curious to know who sent us this message. The email address it was sent to has never been listed on the 'Contact Us' or 'About Us' pages of our website. It has only ever been given to music and film companies for them to send us press material. And we have only ever used it to send out press releases to other media outlets such as newspapers.
"While it is not unfathomable that a person or spambot guessed the address, I think it is unlikely. Why would someone send to this address when there are so many other addresses publicly listed on our website?
"If – and it's a big 'if' – it was not a lucky guess, then there's a big chance that whoever sent the message works within the media machine.
"We replied to the message to ask the person who he or she is, but have not had any response. The mystery sender used one of those accounts anybody can set up on GMail in a matter of minutes. However, we cannot reveal his or her full address, because he or she did not say whether or not the message was on the record."
Meanwhile, reporters for The Sun, a Hong Kong newspaper, went to Boston, USA, to track down Edison's current girlfriend Vincy Yeung (楊永晴). She said that she stands by Edison but refused to comment further.
The newspaper also reported that Bobo Chan (陳文媛), another celebrity implicated by the scandal, had her upcoming wedding called off on the orders of her fiancé’s mother.
It is also being purported by Hong Kong media and by netizens that Mandy Chen (陳育嬬) is one of the women in the photos leaked on Wednesday. It was rumoured that she got to know Edison in 2001 when he performed at a beauty pageant that she was competing in.
Reporter: Alex Au
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