An open letter to Moon Lee --- from her ex-husband

My family and I had engaged a publicist, Ms. Nat Daniel, to “engage” your on-going attempts to fuel your fan base in recent years.  I have just informed Nat that you have not posted a new blog essay in 38 days, the longest interval that I have noted.  If this represents your sincere attempt to stop the foolishness of still flaunting your “celebrity” status, then I would stop Nat’s campaign to propagate the real truth behind your actions of years past.

I now have the perfect new life after the divorce.  As I said before, my family and I are NOT focused on your past conduct or misconduct; there is nothing now for me to forgive or to forget.  You and I both know where the truth lies.  What we cannot tolerate is your continued actions to push your popularity within your fan base through your sina.com blog.  Fans by nature are silly and ignorant anyway because they have no first hand knowledge of their idol.  They live vicariously on what they believe your real personage could be.  So we do not care that your fans like you and follow you avidly.  What is annoying is that your attempts to maintain your “image” constantly feeds an interest in your “personality” and thereby fuels more attention on your notorious sex scandal.  As long as the website pundits keep writing about your ratings as a movie star embroiled in a famous sex scandal, then my name is dragged into it as well. 

If you were tired of being scandalized, then it would help if you stop flaunting yourself in any capacity.  If you would like to continue to “fan” your fan base, then we would help you become more famous than you would ever want --- there is still a lot of truth about you that can be told.  

With your past actions, it is wiser to be invisible.  Hopefully, people can forget your once upon notoriety and therefore not list your misconduct over and over again in the media.  Choose wisely and we can both have this behind us!  

Dennis Law MD

Moon Lee is as guilty as sin by Natalia Khan Daniel

As a woman and usually sympathetic about women’s causes, I must confess that I agree with the Dr. Dennis Law family’s attitude to press the issues of Moon Lee’s guilt and personal failings unless she accepts responsibility for her actions or until she relents on furthering her popularity or flaunting her false innocence on her Chinese blog.

We knew that, at the time of the infamous “Closet Affair” scandal, the Chinese media was robust in covering all the news and gossip because Moon Lee was indeed a media darling of the past.  Despite overwhelming publicity about this incredible story of lust and betrayal, the English-speaking world on the US side where Moon lived at that time was conspicuously kept in the dark.  When I did some research, it became clear that Dr. Law would be in more legal jeopardy with his divorce proceedings if he had made public statements about the facts of the sexual scandal.  Colorado divorce laws, as in many other states in the US, are “no-fault” by statute.  Therefore, any attempt by any side to make statements about sexual indiscretion of the other party would not only be irrelevant by law but may infuriate the judge for inflaming the opposing party without receiving any legal advantage.  That would explain the need for total silence in the English-speaking world in North America.

At this later date, I agree that it is meaningful to set the record straight in the English-speaking world regardless of the magnitude of interest, large or small.  Moon Lee had for the longest time continued a subtle campaign to flaunt her “good side” on the Chinese web.  That is her right!  But it is also our right to make the truth behind one of the most spectacular sex scandals of Chinese modern history become an indelible record in cyberspace for the purpose of historical archiving.  It is grossly unfair for Moon Lee to plead her innocence without any contestation.

All over the Chinese web, there are still weekly new essays by website pundits that repeatedly portray this celebrity scandal of historic proportions.  Some simply write about the truth.  Some accuse Dr. Law of blaming Moon’s absurd extra-marital affair on her strong sex drive – an accusation that was fictitious and invented by a Hong Kong magazine because de facto, Dr. Law would never have been stupid enough to make any self-deprecating statement about her sexual drive or inclination.  Some writers would write about the nasty divorce where both sides accuse each other of affairs but no one could ever know the truth.  Even though the last assertion itself is factually true, we all know that the real truth exists.  Dr. Law knows it; his wife knows it; his daughter knows it; all members of his company know it; and I know it too well too after all the interviews and research.      

I am a woman, and I cannot accept her piety.  Moon Lee’s sexual affair with her “adoptive” son was obscene and stupid.  Her seduction of a minor (also an employee) was probably illegal even in China.  Her denial of the truth was incredible.  Her attempts to rob her husband and the Law family during the divorce were devious and immoral.  Her flaunting of her clean life and her wholesomeness after the divorce is disingenuous and deceitful.  Her active blog writings fuel a celebrity status that just invites more nuisance and proliferation of lies.

  

So if Moon Lee continues to indulge in her “goodness” on her blog in order to keep her “celebrity” alive, it is necessary for us to sustain a campaign of the truth in the more sane English-speaking world.  The fact of the matter is that I will be ordered to stop this campaign only if Moon Lee either admits her misconduct or stops publicizing her image.  It is just that simple!  

Natalia Khan Daniel

The Moon Lee Affair --- ONLY THE WAY to a hellish life by Natalia Khan Daniel

In my Hong Kong trip recently, I viewed the DVD of the movie, Only the Way, a “real piece of work” that Moon Lee produced and acted in while she was in the height of her divorce in 2008.  That was another unexpected shocker!  

I was told Moon was responsible for re-writing the script for first time director and close personal friend, Dung Tak Wing.  After watching this totally embarrassing movie, it is easy to understand why it received recognition as the number one “Shit Film” in Hong Kong that year.

It is bewildering enough for anyone to believe that a satirically funny movie about the Buddhist faith can ever be made for Chinese moviegoers.  It is even more unfathomable why Moon Lee would choose to write into the dumb movie script a replay of her real life scandalous affair with an unworthy teenager.  Worse still, the then confused Moon, together with the idiotic first time director Dung, decided to use the real life transgressor to act the role of the errant kid in the film --- including actually seducing the twenty-one years older Moon Lee in bed and soon after being caught red-handed by the husband.  Those decisions in 2008 transcend any logic and reasoning, and for most thinking people, actions like those would raise questions about the mental health of the participants.  Did Moon make that choice as producer because she thought making fun of the real-life facts would discredit the truth?  In retrospect, including reading some articles by reporters, most sensible people believed that facts of the reported scandal were true.  Only prejudiced relatives, close friends and fiendish fans of Moon Lee believed otherwise --- and that number was tiny in comparison to the population at large.  Moon Lee and director Dung made something already bad into something intolerably horrible.  They truly became the epitome of the Hollywood movie, Dumb and Dumber!

Examine the movie photo (included here) that Hong Kong reporters got their hands on and published during the release of the movie in 2008.  I believed they used it with sarcastic intent.  Pictured here is the real-life scandalous teenage lover-boy, lying side by side in bed with Moon Lee, as a still photo of one of the scenes in the movie.  They look as “real life” as can be, because neither of the lovers had much theatrical makeup.  They did not even want to be transformed into another fictional character that is not their true nature.  One can absolutely believe that teenage lover Zong was as ugly as he looked in the picture, playing himself.  And the famous Moon Lee, without significant makeup help at nearly age forty, did not look any better either!  As in real life, she looked like she was an older hooker, except her services were free and she made incalculable sacrifices.  Unbelievable!!!

In the order of director Dung, lover kid Zong, and actress Moon Lee, the infamous threesome is now the “dumb, dumber, and dumbest”! 

The more I find out, the more I am certain that this sex scandal is the “mother” of them all!     

Moon Lee Passion Gone Wild? by Natalia Khan Daniel

On my way back to Kuala Lumpur to visit relatives for the summer, I stopped by Hong Kong and had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Law, his wife Alyssa, daughter Jade, and more importantly and for the first time, Dr. Law’s parents.  Also present were other family friends and relatives who were gathered there for the beginning of vacation trips for the summer.  What impressed me was that this was truly a family with substance and stature.  It was a lot more than their economic means and professional successes --- it was their immense sense of educational and cultural awareness and their overwhelming sense of human decency.  Dr. Law and his three medical doctor brothers just donated millions of US dollars to their alma mater school of medicine to name a new auditorium after their parents’ name in gratitude for their phenomenal upbringing.  Dr. Dennis Law’s new musical, Terracotta Warriors 3D, will open on September 2^nd, 2014 in Beijing as truly the first 3D theatrical show in world history.  Later this year, he will direct and produce another new show that should bring new international pride and joy for Chinese theater --- another unprecedented 3D show that is entitled, Ode to Nature, showcasing the five virtues of Confucius and the Taoist five forces of nature in an entertaining fashion and with visual splendor never achieved before.

With such a family in the background of Moon Lee’s past family life, it shocks me to the core as to how such a woman could have done what she really did to turn her life upside down.  Moon’s historic scandal gave birth to new life for Dr. Law’s daughter and for his wife, Alyssa --- they are now on a new and gratifying pathway and that is the ultimate good thing.  But trying to reconstruct Moon Lee’s frame of mind in 2004 is frankly impossible ---- a mind that led her to begin a secret affair with an uneducated teenager with no money and worth, a kid who became her adoptive son that was twenty-two years her junior.  This was beyond passion gone wild in a one-night stand; it was a two and a half year long secret affair (until discovered) that required great strides to hide and conceal among the hundreds of people that surrounded this cast of persons in the course of their complicated theatrical business.  As an interested third person now, I know for a fact that most people in that circle in 2004 through 2007 was convincingly aware of this sexual scandal as it was happening.  The dumb teenage boy of course bragged to his few best friends about his encounters with the famous movie star, and the rest became history.  In retrospect, it must be devastatingly embarrassing for Moon Lee to recognize that she was spied on and joked about for two and half years by everyone around her before the scandalous love affair was discovered and brought to the open by Dr. Law.  Unlike other “criminals” caught red-handed and forced to admit fault, Moon Lee must be forced into forever “denial” just because the actual events were so incredibly embarrassing especially for a celebrity who previous record of personal life had been so stellar.

Indeed, the famous Moon Lee “Closet Affair” is not because of “passion gone wild” just for a fleeting moment.  It was more deliberate and long standing.  It was partly crazy and partly extremely well thought out.  Certain materials found in Moon’s stashed away personal belongings at a later date post-divorce when the house was being renovated show a narcissistic side of Moon Lee not appreciated before.   My analysis leads me to believe that she was only pretentiously humble but in fact she was quite enamored by herself.  How that may have led to her scandalous affair may never be understood.   There could not have been remotely normal sexual or romantic attraction between Moon and Zong, the unworthy kid.  There clearly was aberrant human behavior that may be attributed to “destiny” and that ultimately caused the downfall of “Cinderella”.  And tragically, most people of sound mind would believe that this “Cinderella” of Chinese motion pictures could never rise again.

Dr. Law put it aptly: “Facts are facts.  There is nothing about Moon to forgive or forget.  I want to live looking ahead, not back.  History always takes care of itself.”

For more photographs of interest, visit www.twofacesofthemoon.com.  

TwoFacesoftheMoon.com website launched

As publicist for the Law family, I have just launched the website for the book Two Faces of the Moon.   Written by Dr. Dennis Law in 2007 as an attempt to set the record straight, it really was a heartfelt effort to put to rest a lot of guessing and rumors by the media and the interested public.
I continue to be shocked by the persistent interest in this subject matter, at least according to the Chinese web.  Just days ago, another essay was written and published on-line listing the top ten actresses that had “immorally cheated on their husbands and then getting caught”.  Log onto the following website address: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7964e4ec0101ubfm.html and read a blog essay written by a prolific cyberspace writer whose has had over fifty-three million visits to his blog.  See ten gloriously attractive women whose lives have been turned upside down by passion gone wild.

Recently, I reviewed Moon Lee’s blog at sina.com and I am again baffled by her present lifestyle.  She has had millions of visits on her site, yet all she does is to write about things that has absolutely no importance whatsoever to most people with productive lives.  She makes commentary on a wide variety of almost senseless subjects, as if she is the ageless guru about trivial matters.  In one of her latest entries, she talked about the value of exercise, accompanied by photos of her fifty year old body lifting her leg high enough to almost dislocate a hip.  I suppose she is trying to impress her fan base.  I called Alyssa (Mrs. Dennis Law) to have her review this remarkable pose, and I could tell she had a real good laugh.  As a dance teacher and an award-winning choreographer, she said she was not quite clear what the message behind this awkward action could have been.  Moon did not have any grace of a skilled dancer; she looked like a martial artist doing this pose forcibly as an exercise --- a risk for someone of her age, but for what purpose?    

The purpose of this website is not to sell more books.  Dr. Law made it clear to me that he is not interested in book revenue.  It is just an avenue to propagate the bona fide truth.  There has been clear public interest in the subject matter.  So it is best that more facts about the past and the present get disseminated.  Dr. Law is presently in Beijing producing and directing the first 3D show in the world, Terracotta Warriors 3D, for a permanent run there.  Over the phone, I have gotten permission from him to gradually put the book’s content on the new website.  In this manner, people that are curious can get to appreciate the fascinating observations and analysis made by Dr. Law about this scandal. 

Natalia Khan Daniel    

Moon Lee: condones incestuous sexual affair but doesn’t kill cockroaches!

By Dennis Law MD (guest writer for Natalia Khan Daniel)

When I married Moon in 2001, even in retrospect, I believed she was a decent human being worthy of the affection and respect I lavished upon her.  However, the moment she developed a romantic interest in that unworthy teenage kid for whatever reason in the spring of 2004, she embarked on the road towards insanity.  Her illicit love affair with this “adoptive” son and employee was insane.  The way she tried to tell lies and extort money during the divorce was insane.  After the divorce, her continued efforts to promote herself to her fan base while denying the truth is insane.  And finally, her real or pretentious Buddhist faith is still insane!

I have never belittled anyone before for his or her religious belief.  But Moon Lee was fundamentally non-religious during our marriage and her turn towards Buddhism during and after the divorce is merely an attempt to hide under a protective shield of some high-sounding religious pretext.  The latest entry in her infamous blog (www.blog.sina.com.cn/lisaifeng) is proof for my contention.  In this brief essay, she espouses the Buddhist belief of not killing anything that has “life” by promoting to her readers a method for getting rid of cockroaches by not killing them.  The whole concept is comically silly and is unworthy of my description via translation.  How can a person who is blind to the immorality of her incestuous extra-marital affair with a teenage employee, blind to the immorality of extorting money from the family she had wronged and blind to see how her incredulous actions have hurt herself and her son “sanely” promote a lifestyle for other people that promises to save all cockroaches in the world?  It would be safer for Moon to return to being the Chinese cyberspace cooking instructor or travel tour guide.  At least in these areas, even though she has no real authority in the subjects, there is only the matter of taste and involves nothing categorically right or wrong.

In blind efforts to hide from the truth and find redemption where there can be none, Moon Lee’s persona has gone from the ridiculous to the sublime.  The ignorant should stop preaching to the more ignorant.  My best advice for Moon is this: get lost and let the circus close down!

The Two Faces of Moon Lee

Face One: the pretty and innocent “Angel” of Hong Kong martial art films
Face Two: the instigator of the most absurd and insane sexual scandal in Chinese motion picture history

After several months of preparation and research, I believe I am ready to launch the campaign I was initially engaged for ---- to help Dr. Law’s family by set the record straight regarding his scandal-ridden marriage to and divorce from Moon Choi-Fung Lee, once the pretty, bright shining starlet of Hong Kong kung fu films. As I once opined, if it were not for the Chinese internet-media’s obsession with this “Closet Affair” scandal fueled by Moon Lee’s continued efforts to cater to her fan base rather than dropping out of sight and mind, I would have little to do in this current engagement. For readers with an interest in Moon Lee, especially those literate in Chinese, visiting her blog at www.blog.sina.com.cn/lisaifeng would be most informative. This would give anyone an extraordinary insight into the workings of the mind for someone once so famous and so beloved but now falling into some endless narcissistic journey of a travel and culinary guide. It is of particular interest that while Moon Lee clearly wants to engage her fans (that are by definition not her friends since there is no “personal” knowledge of anything), she has for years offered absolutely no information as to her whereabouts, her work if any, the status of her son and family, or her plans for the future.

Whereas Moon Lee’s blog campaign has offered her the visible invisibility she has sought, Dr. Dennis Law has openly marched forward with his second career after his total retirement from a successful career in general, thoracic and vascular surgery. My recent interview with him revealed that he will open a sit-down permanent show in Beijing, Terracotta Warriors 3D, billed as the first show in world history to feature true 3D art direction. While wearing conventional cinema 3D glasses, the audience will experience an unprecedented combination of live-action and hi-definition 3D grand cinema. On a different front, Mrs. Alyssa Law, the former Xiaoli Wang, views the entire Moon Lee scandal with a different perspective. While the scandal was entirely attributable to Moon’s actions, Alyssa was previously enraged by Moon’s false assertion that she was the culprit in the marriage. Now settled down in the pursuit of the “good life”, I feel that Alyssa is looking back at it all with a new sense of humor. Both Dr. Law and Alyssa are both comfortably on a journey of success both professionally and personally. They will leave it up to me to set the record straight regarding their past encounter with the “devil”.

So for all those interested in the truth behind the downfall of Moon Lee, the “Angel” of Hong Kong martial arts films, look for both the upcoming website www.twofacesofthemoon.com (launching mid-May) as well as the entire book (described as “an insight into Chinese extra-marital affairs”) available for download through iBook.

Cheers,
Natalia Khan Daniel

                 

Moon Lee – the destruction of a “rags to riches” fairytale

I recently called Dr. Law to pick his brain further with regard to his life story.  Good natured as usual, he volunteered to put on paper some of his remembrances and regrets.  What follows is the edited version of what he sent me.

Even now, knowing what had transpired to drastically change my life, I would be untruthful to say that I regretted knowing and marrying Moon Lee.  For the first four years of our relationship, from courtship through to 2004, she was very much the “angel” depicted by many of her movie persona.  Having grown up under harsh financial conditions, she made it on her own through talent and hard work.  During the initial two and a half years of marriage, she was indeed the perfect wife, mother and companion.  The reason for the free fall to hell after she met the legendarily unworthy young lover at a Terracotta Warriors rehearsal remains the most baffling puzzle of all time.

In so many aspects of life, Moon Lee was too thoughtful and self-restrained.  Yet what she did in forsaking her family in favor of an illicit affair without a future was the ultimate lesson in deceit and malfeasance.  In order to mastermind such a cover-up of passion of such monstrous proportions, she had to not only convince herself that it was worthwhile but also she had to play act so convincingly that it would fool family, friends and all employees.  In the end when everything fell apart for Moon, I cannot fathom how she could rationalize the whole process to herself.  Adults, both men and women, have been known to self-destruct over misplaced romance and passion from the beginning of time.  So perhaps even I should no longer ponder the reasons why the “angelic” Moon Lee went astray.  In the long run, however, the person most damaged and the life most irreversibly altered belongs to her son from an earlier marriage, Aldo Chan.

Aldo was in every way the innocent victim in the soap opera of family scandals that surrounded him in his early life.  Before he uttered his first cry, his mother was aware that her then pilot husband was carrying on an affair with a flight attendant.  Named after a Canadian shoe retailer, Aldo’s parents separated while he was a neonate.  Moon Lee met me when Aldo was nearly three years old, and in the year 2000, they started a new life based in the United States, located at a fabulous estate in magnificent Denver, Colorado.  For a youngster transplanted from Hong Kong, this was a future without parallel.  The upbringing and the educational opportunities afforded to Aldo were without bounds, especially considering the high academic credentials and standards of everyone in the Law family.  Yet, starting in the summer of 2004, Aldo’s mother had put into motion dark and perverse forces that would forever Aldo life for evermore.  Through absolutely no fault of his own, Aldo’s new and happy family life in America would come to beginnings of a crashing end by late 2006.  Since his mother is too ashamed to be in Hong Kong and too financially indisposed to reside in the United States, I believe Aldo now lives with Moon in Macau.  I suppose there can be a worse place to grow up in the world, but nobody sane would truly believe that Macau is the ultimate land of opportunity for a youngster of today. 

In the entire course of my life with Moon Lee, I am not regretful of her scandalous misconduct --- after all, my family life now without her is much better than what it could have been with her!  But I am truly sorry that the disruption of my then marriage made it impossible for me to provide for Aldo in a way that I promised him at one time --- to give him easy access to a successful life in the new world.  Even in the process of divorce, his mother’s indecent actions and outright lies made it impossible to keep her notorious behavior confidential.  So Aldo was truly the innocent victim amidst this scandalous real-life tale of the now famous “Closet Affair” – a forced and unwilling accomplice of a world famous errant mother!  The clock cannot be turned back, and history cannot be rewritten.  Being human, our destiny is a function of our actions.

For me, it seems amazing that Dr. Law’s most significant regret was not the betrayal by his attractive, movie star wife.  His focus on the wasted opportunities in life for his ex-stepson is both convincing and moving for me as his family publicist.  The philosophical conclusion that indeed we are all personally responsible for our ultimate destiny and legacy is truly meaningful.

Natalia Khan Daniel     

            

Moon Lee – the most colorful sex scandal in Chinese entertainment history

Pictured above:  Moon Lee with her unlikely teenage lover-boy Zong Tianyi, 2004

The more I study the Moon Lee sexual misconduct that lead to her divorce and downfall, the more I am fascinated by all the interpretations and implications, especially among the Chinese. Even though Moon makes the “top-ten” list of sexual improprieties in most writings by Chinese pundits, her ranking can vary remarkably depending on the observer. Yet Moon’s illicit affair was so bizarre and absurd that it should have guaranteed her the number one spot if only the other sinners were not more famous as entertainers. She has been out of the celebrity limelight for so long: that is why her spectacular “closet affair” would be often eclipsed by lesser transgressions of other more famous stars.

Most of the sexual misconduct attributable to Chinese celebrities was easily understandable based on actions arising out of normal sexual appetites. But Moon Lee’s actions and choices were emphatically incomprehensible: a) she was sexually attracted to a boy who was still a teenager and twenty-two years younger; b) the boy also became her adopted son which added an incestuous component; c) the boy was unattractive by standards of his contemporaries, as well as impoverished and uneducated; d) Moon was de facto this boy’s employer thereby constituting “sexual abuse” in the workplace; e) the affair was not an impulsive “one night stand” but rather a determined choice, lasting two years before it was interrupted by accidental discovery.

Can there be any salvation from the above notorious bad choices? How did the beloved “angel” of Hong Kong action films reach so low while being married and mother to two children? Since her divorce, this once darling of kung fu films has revealed absolutely nothing except for blog articles about her hobbies involving cooking and travel. As I studied her past successes and her more recent failures as a third party observer, even though I am inclined to hate her for extraordinary foolishness, I cannot avoid feeling sorry for her. American celebrities have lost their lives over foolishness with serious drugs, but that finality of death avoids the transgressor facing indefinite shame and mockery. Regardless of very public denials, poor Moon Lee knows exactly what happened to her life. She can hide the truth from certain fans, but she cannot hide from herself. I believe this will gnaw at her in the worst way for the rest of her life. And for this heartache, there is no cure! Indeed, this is real tragedy!

Natalia Khan Daniel

Moon Lee – the chef or the travel agent?

Since my job is to safeguard the truth, I have read and digested the large volume of essays Moon has written on her “www.sina.com” blog.  It was quite interesting that she refrained from making any mention of her previous marriage and divorce ever since she lost her Beijing defamation lawsuit to Dr. Law’s present wife, Xiaoli Wang Law.  Some time during the early phases of the divorce, Moon Lee tried to blame her divorce on Xiaoli Wang.  Her wrongful accusations against Wang led to a lawsuit prosecuted by Wang against Moon for defamation, a suit that she lost in the Chinese court in Beijing.  Since that time, her frequent essays on her well-read “sina” blog completely ignore her scandalous actions and divorce.  She has just simply only written about her culinary skills and her travels.  And she intentionally avoids any clues as to her whereabouts and what she is really doing other than travel and cooking. 

Moon Lee’s blog fans have frequently asked about her whereabouts, her work, and her personal life.  She has ignored them all.  If her frequent writings were intended to maintain or grow a fan base, how can she ignore more important questions and only dwell on home-cooking and casual travel?  Is Moon trying to teach her fans?  Do her non-professional declarations influence anything at all?  Nobody knows!

One thing is clear.  The more she writes and the more she puts herself out to the public, the more she fuels the interest in her life story --- the scandal will always take center stage.

It is a shame that a once adored action actress has now become aimless and mysterious.  A once relevant Chinese celebrity has dwindled to a reclusive “blogger”.  It is just too bad!

Natalia Khan Daniel     

Moon Lee – Divorce Gone Crazy!

Our family publicist asked me to write an opinion piece to highlight the fault of the divorce laws as part of my experience in divorcing the Hong Kong celebrity actress, Moon Lee.

This was the story of a celebrity wife that was discovered after a two and a half year secret affair with an under-aged and uneducated adopted son, who also happened to have been an employee of the company she owned.  Given the facts, a normal person would expect the divorce to be relatively easy and straightforward.  Yet this turned out to be the divorce from hell, taking four years to complete and the expenditure of $1.6 million in attorneys and accounting fees.  In addition, based on Moon’s lies regarding lifestyle needs, $13,000 monthly for four years was paid for “temporary maintenance” while the final divorce decree was pending.  Despite her own wrongdoings of gigantic proportions, Moon Lee’s greed incited her to ask for millions of dollars in property division and permanent alimony to sustain her for the rest of her life.   Yet, after years of bitter litigation and a giant waste of money, all she received was about $70,000 in property division and six months of alimony of $6,000 in order to facilitate her to “leave town”.

This final result represents a resounding and catastrophic defeat for a greedy spouse in the course of divorce.  But how can this happen in America?

Let every reader be warned that the American judicial system was and still is not based on fairness in the setting of divorces.  Judges and attorneys do not even pretend that the process is fair.  Sandwiched between overworked judges with overflowing dockets and greedy attorneys working on hourly charges, divorces can never see daylight.  Judges want to postpone hearing dates in order to force parties to settle.  Attorneys want to stall and prolong cases because hourly fees earned keep pouring in.  On account of these factors, the advent of “no-fault” divorce laws did not alleviate any problems.  Lies and acrimony rage and there is really no meaningful penalty for perjury.  Attorneys love the incessant fight between parties while judges grant most “Motions” while showing propensity to “continue” the case whenever possible. 

For the system to improve, the country needs to develop a flat-fee system of attorney’s fees for divorces, much like the system presently used in China, where Courts demand that the divorce must be completed in six months.

My divorce from Moon Lee was a glaring example of the system gone wild.  We had no children born of the marriage and child custody was never a factor.  I had retired from surgery, and without earned income and living off family Trust distributions, I spent my time during the marriage on my non-profit foundation dealing with cultural exchange between China and the United States.  Not only was our judicial system corrupt and ineffective, it assisted a foreign national in her attempts to rob an American husband.

There is no way to stop spouses from doing bad things to each other.  This is human nature.  But something should be done to change our judicial system and its handling of divorce matters!

Dennis Law MD
       

Moon Lee makes the Chinese #1 in entertainment scandal

Has there ever been a celebrated Hollywood actress whose stardom plummeted into forever darkness over an incredible incestuous extra-marital affair with an under-aged teenage employee? Probably not! But as the world’s first for the Chinese side, Moon Lee did exactly that --- and has made indelible history in the Chinese movie world. Actually, the real story should make history worldwide! The true events were actually that bizarre and unexplainable in the making.


Moon Lee got her break in the movie business as a teenage high school student. Pretty with the added look of innocence and predisposed towards dancing, she was quickly turned into an action heroine with the “angelic” face. Her dance-like martial arts ability soon made her legendary among Hong Kong kung fu films. During her entire movie-making career, she was surprisingly free from any media gossip about her love-interests and sex life --- de facto, she had nothing worth gossiping about. For many years, she was the live-in girlfriend of a Hong Kong director and she helped him “mother” two daughters from a previous marriage. Then she secretly married a Cathay Pacific pilot, and in 1997, gave birth to a son in Vancouver, unbeknownst to the Chinese media. While nursing the newborn, she was broken-hearted to find out that her then husband was having an affair with an airline flight attendant. With a few months old infant in tow, she separated in 1997 in great anguish. I believe Dr. Law’s relationship with Moon started in late 1999, and according to actual words written in Moon’s diary, this new relationship brought her new hope in life. A whirlwind romance of fairytale proportions led to their marriage in late 2001. Everything I reviewed indicated that their family relationship and marriage was the envy of all. Although only discovered by Dr. Law in July of 2006, the devastating blow to Moon Lee’s life and to her marriage occurred during the Spring of 2006 when, at the age of thirty-nine, she chose to enter an illicit sexual relationship with a seventeen year old employee/dancer that she and Dr. Law adopted as a “son” a year later. A divorce that started in 2007 took fours years to complete because of cumbersome laws and judicial actions in America. After the expenditure of over US$1.6 dollars by Dr. Law in legal, accountant and expert fees, the divorce decree was granted with Moon only getting a settlement of approximately $75,000 to facilitate her “getting out of town”. This whole human tragedy demonstrated an incredible waste of emotions, time and financial resources. While it illustrated actual life occurrences that would make soap operas tame in comparison, it can remind us of how life can be full of surprises, both good and bad.


Not only have I read as much as I could, as well as the book Two Faces of the Moon, but also I had the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Law and his family last December in Hong Kong to get a close and personal perspective on the entire subject. Dr. Law’s current attitude to this sordid story was surprisingly relaxed and candid. The above events were calmly recalled without emotion and drama. I can see that he now can look upon it with a sense of humor. Yet it was this philosophical candidness that makes this story of shame so much more irresistible.


Even though I am retained as a publicist for the Law family side of the matter, I must say that this true-life story fascinates me way beyond the professional level. What could have caused this angel of Chinese “movie-dom”, having experienced betrayal and emotional tragedies of her own, to fall into such an abyss of romantic involvement? Among all the men she could have contact with, what kind of a woman, at this stage of her life, would fall for a young, poor, crude and uneducated male dancer, one whose notable quality among his fellow dancers was his lack of good-looks? Since we will never get the correct answers from either Moon or her lover-boy, it makes asking the questions even more intriguing.


My mission for the Law family is to level the public relations playing field for English speaking readers. The family believes that the Chinese media is already too plagued with faulty perceptions and reporting anyway; therefore there is nothing to be salvaged in those territories. The opinions of Asian readers drawn to gossip are totally irrelevant to all the members of the Law family. But in the English language media, there have been only rare reports that mention Moon Lee’s scandalous divorce. With the never-ending torrent of writings in the Chinese language, it is only a matter of time when things will spill over. It is now my job to assert and protect the truth before lies and gossip show their ugly faces.

Natalie Khan Daniel

Dennis Law/Moon Lee divorce --- a public relations circus!

Even though I have been engaged as a professional to add some daylight to the darkness surrounding this celebrity divorce, I do it with an unusual degree of interest and passion because this case is indeed more spectacular than the average.  It was a real story of a once widely admired Hong Kong action actress.  She was considered the adorable princess of Hong Kong action movies.  Then she married a highly successful American surgeon who had changed his career to become an impresario of Chinese musical shows.  But sometime thereafter, this middle-aged famous celebrity got involved in a “fatal attraction” with a minor that was her godson and employee, and surprisingly kept it a secret for over two years.  The romance was both illicit and illegal, and after its discovery, it gave rise to the world’s most protracted and costly divorce.  This was a story akin to the downfall of Cinderella, the destruction of Camelot --- so by necessity, a Malaysian-American professional woman like myself would be totally attracted by all its implications.  My proficiency in the Chinese language also helps me gain competent understanding of the issues at hand. 

I understand Asian culture and the nature of both Asian women and Asian media. The historical importance and impact of the Dennis Law/Moon Lee romance and its ultimate disruption is “godsend” for reporters and the nosy gossip-prone public.  Even in America where people are more open-minded and less shell-shocked by unusual sexual behavior and tastes, the Moon Lee scandal would have been an attention-grabber.  In the Asian world, this story was destined to be an unending story of passion gone astray.  Asians would hardly be able to control themselves.  That explains the intense interest all over the Chinese web.

The facts of the case fascinate me.  The future public relations potential of this story make me swoon as a professional in this arena.  But more importantly, I am hired to propagate the truth as I dissect the actions and the occurrences.  I will do it with eagerness because I believe in the cause --- the need to represent the truth while the media and the web have been exposed to such frenzy, errors and misunderstanding.

People involved have been placed in a media circus.  So stayed tuned.  As I dissect the actual events and what has been written about it, I will share with you all the implications of this incredible personal story.  There are lessons galore about America, about Chinese culture, and about human actions and misdeeds that are life-changing.   

Natalie Khan Daniel