Moon Lee Scandal Never Dies

The last commercial movie that Moon Lee acted in was probably before 1997 or thereabouts, yet her notoriety continues unabated even today.  So many years after her screen presence, one must assume that her “fame” was sustained only by her incredible and perverse sexual misconduct that although, started in 2004, the disastrous effect continued for countless years afterwards. 

Weekly, Chinese cyberspace continues to bring back stories of her unexplainable sexual escapade.  Attached here is a photo from another recent internet re-telling of the infamous scandal that brought down one of the darlings of Hong Kong kungfu films.  The factual story seems to me as being very old indeed and yet it maintains unrelenting fascination.  However, I am most baffled by the undying interest in a subject so mundane regarding a personality that should be long forgotten.  After all, since the scandal, Moon Lee had not done anything interesting or impactful by any measure.

Partly, Moon Lee should bear some responsibility.  Instead of allowing her old “celebrity” status to slip away quietly, she keeps feeding her Chinese online awareness by writing useless essays on her sina.com blog.  Of course, none of this adds any wisdom or useful information for the world.  It only fuels continued interest by cyberspace fans most of whom are rather senseless and have way more free time than they deserve.

Since this scandalized over-the-hill celebrity is desirous of continued publicity, I would volunteer to “fuel the fire” by offering some older (before the scandal) and newer (after the scandal) photos of Moon Lee for all to “enjoy”.  What a dramatic change in her life!  Let interested readers guess what is what.

One day in the future, if Moon Lee decides to go lower profile and gives up flaunting herself, then I would willingly stop helping her propaganda.  When cyberspace media forgets her, we will both live in more peace.

Dennis Law MD     

Two Faces of the Moon --- the Truth about Moon Lee

This blog was the brainchild of our hired publicist, Natalia Khan.  Once the initial usefulness was realized, I decided to continue with it as needed depending on “which way the wind blows”.  Since the wind is blowing with Moon Lee continuing to publicize herself, I think it is prudent that my interest in this shared subject matter continues by making her story more famous among English readers.

The book, Two Faces of the Moon, was written and published in 2008 with the expressed purpose of re-telling the simple truth behind her world-class scandal of sexual misconduct.  In addition to the biographical details, the book also took advantage of the opportunity to provide a thoughtful treatise on Chinese perception of both sex and extra-marital affairs.  There are limited numbers of people that are still interested in the Moon Lee story, but there may be more that are fascinated by contemporary Chinese sexual attitudes and behavior.  To accommodate these interests, I am announcing that I am moving forward to make the book, Two Faces of the Moon, available for free download through this blog site or through www.twofacesofthemoon.com.  Follow us closely and take advantage of this free opportunity to learn something interesting.

Front Cover & Book’s Foreword:

Dennis K. Law MD  

Moon Lee’s Fool’s Paradise

In a recent blog essay, Moon Lee was boasting of her lifestyle in which she can do whatever she wants.  And anyone that is envious of her is as much of a fool as she is.  It is unbelievable that she continues to waste time writing at intervals to a limited number of Chinese fans through her Chinese sina.com blog site.  Who cares what that ignorant group thinks anyway?  Since Moon is hell-bent on maintaining her nebulous “celebrity” status, I might as well help her along among the more sensible English-speaking group of readers. 

Let me assure interested people worldwide that Moon Lee cannot be living a satisfying life --- and that is purely something of her own doing!  During the times that I knew her well, I was certain that she wanted to be a person of substance.  She was brought up under impoverished circumstances as a child.  Her stardom that started at age seventeen or so was her new grand meal ticket that guided her lifestyle for the subsequent two decades.  With such meager beginnings and yet evolving into a beloved local movie star in Hong Kong and Asia was indeed a great Cinderella story.  I remembered she really got involved enthusiastically with Chinese dancing and the major theatrical works that we were producing.  It was major international accomplishment that would help to replace her movie career.

However, her downfall was triggered by an unbelievable sex scandal entirely of her own making.  Which Chinese movie star in history was dumb enough to have a prolonged affair with an initially under-aged employee (over twenty-years younger), someone we subsequently recognized as our “adoptive son”.  This was a scandal of world proportions because it involved an under-aged component, an incestuous element and also included the factor of “sexual harassment” in the workplace.  In 2004, it started when the foolhardy kid was under eighteen years of age while Moon was one of his employers.  There was no way of avoiding a world-class scandal of unprecedented proportions.  That is why the darn matter has so many legs so many years later.

So this workaholic old time “celebrity” with goals of history-making career success is now happy at home living the life of: 1) keeping her location secret; 2) keeping any work secret; 3) watching television freely; 4) cooking at home freely; 5) cultivating house plants freely; and 6) hiding her son and his endeavors secret. 

These pretenses are grossly embarrassing.  So if Moon Lee will only hide, for certain, there would be less SHAME.

   

The world knows that this was a world class sacrifice!

Moon Lee and her never-ending saga

Moon Lee and her never-ending saga

By all the rules of modern societal gossip, Moon Lee’s “Closet Affair” that ended what had been described as a fairy-tale marriage should have long become forgotten history.  The stunning and unbelievable affair with a teenage adoptive son happened between April of 2004 and July of 2006.  The intense flurry of international media attention was understandable after the announcement of divorce in 2007; after all, she was the media darling then and the actual events were factually shocking.

Yet, nearly ten years after her history-making betrayal of family and husband, the Moon Lee “Closet Affair” is still written up on essays in Chinese cyberspace on a weekly basis.  My wife, Alyssa Xiaoli, and I are emotionally way past her treacherous actions.  At one time, Alyssa was furious at Moon for trying to blame the divorce on her for being the “third person”, but she was gratified by winning a libel lawsuit against Moon in a Beijing court.  Now Alyssa often jokes that Moon’s loss has turned out to be her gain.  With time, anger has turned into a combination of pity and glee.

On one hand, we have the mind to ignore everything about Moon Lee.  On the other, we remain curious about the Chinese national preoccupation with Moon’s (and other actress’s) notorious sexual misconduct.  Since Moon Lee continues to strive to maintain her notoriety by writing Chinese blog essays frequently, we figured that we could indulge her and make her increasingly famous among English speakers by informing western readers with my occasional commentary.

With Moon’s son now eighteen years old and entering college (I suspect in eastern Canada), she will lose any child support payments from her first ex-husband.  So Moon Lee is financially on her own entirely.  Over these last five years since my divorce, she has not disclosed any professional or occupational advancement whatsoever.  I believe that if she had anything to brag about, she would have made public declaration of such.  So we can safely pity her for a lack of financial independence and also a lack of a personal love life. 

And as she constantly draws attention to herself via her Chinese blog to maintain and invigorate her fan base, all she can write about is home-making activities like cooking and planting and her non-extravagant and uninspired travel log. 

Moon’s son is lucky to leave the nest now.  She could be a loving mother to her son, but she cannot inspire him to greatness.  As a matter of fact, Moon Lee’s thoughtless actions robbed her son of an alternative pathway for life.

To Moon’s son, Aldo, I say: “The seven years that I spent as your step-father were good times between us.  The fact that I could not do more for you was not of my choosing.  As a child, you were blameless.  Your destiny was decided by your mother --- for that, I am sorry for you!”

Dennis K. Law MD

Moon Lee’s “Terracotta Warrior” Tragedy

Moon Lee’s “Terracotta Warriors” tragedy

My production company and I have just launched a world-shattering new 3D production of Terracotta Warriors and have just completed the first American four weeks’ tour in Denver, Colorado.  Although this history-making theatrical event marks a personal milestone for me, in a peculiar way it also reminds me of another monumental event of my personal life: it was during the 2004 rehearsals of the world-premiering Terracotta Warriors that trapped by then celebrity wife, Moon Lee, into a life-changing affair with a teenage dancer employed by my performance troupe.  And it was my liberation from that unenviable marriage that freed and motivated me to create the new unprecedented theatrical phenomenon that is Terracotta Warriors 3D.  Interested parties should check out www.tcw3d.com. 

As director and producer, I was gratified by Denver’s overwhelmingly favorable reaction to this production.  Having been tested and improved in nearly a hundred performances in Beijing and Hong Kong, the show Terracotta Warriors 3D that played thirty-two performances in Denver was truly triumphant.  This international exposure has already set us up to use this new 3D theatrical art direction to help advance the cause of Chinese performing arts both in China and internationally in the future.

From my perspective, poor Moon Lee and her pitiful antics that dragged me into an unavoidable “mud fight” are now distant memories only worthy of comic relief.  Strangely enough, some members of our audience still purchased my book, Two Faces of the Moon.  When I married Moon Lee, she was an endearing and respectable retired Hong Kong action actress and a good mother that was enthusiastic about Chinese dance.  Now, the world will always remember Moon for her indecency.  She has no one to blame but herself.  Yet, her loss has clearly become my gain.  My wife and daughter and I are thrilled with our daily lives.

The memorable success of the new Terracotta Warriors closes a loop in my personal life. 

Dennis K, Law MD