Shirley Yeung Purchases $18 Million Apartment
Shirley Yeung (楊思琦) knew her career was over the moment she gave birth to her daughter, Krystal. A Miss Hong Kong winner and a promoted TVB actress, Shirley’s career fell to the dumps after her messy love scandal with Gregory Lee (李泳豪) and Andy Ng (吳帥), Krystal’s birth father.
But the single mother isn’t nowhere near “over”. Though no longer contracted with TVB, the forever youthful 37-year-old has found other means to take care of her family. A talented investor, Shirley owns three properties all around Hong Kong, and recently purchased another $18 million estate at Tseung Kwan O’s Ocean Wings.
Tabloids have been curious about Shirley’s newfound wealth. Some reports said Shirley struck rich after secretly dating the married businessman, Peter Ko (高健行). Shirley admits that she knows Peter personally, but denies dating him. She was also rumored to have dated Andy Ng’s good friend, former Hong Kong national diver Yu Yue (俞越), but this was denied as well.
A few days ago, Shirley was spotted taking her mother and four-year-old daughter to a real estate agency in Central. After spending about half an hour in the show room for the Tseung Kwan O estate, Shirley dropped $17.7 million HKD to buy the property. Shirley had purchased another Tseung Kwan O property for over $10 million HKD just less than a year ago. According to sources, Shirley’s total property assets are worth more than $50 million HKD.
Shirley, however, denied buying the property. “I was just looking around!” said Shirley when she was confronted by reporters that same night. “Just curious about the renovations. I know nothing about investing! There were smaller properties there too, and I looked at those!”
But Shirley’s sudden wealth isn’t a new topic in gossip circles. Last year, it was revealed that Shirley has been driving two new cars. Earlier this year, she enrolled Krystal in a private English international school, with tuition around $84,000 HKD a year.
Source: Headline Daily
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
I’m glad to hear that shirley and her daughter have been doing well.
where’s the money coming from? she hasn’t had many reported jobs….
When a woman who isn’t exactly successful in her career, who claims to know nothing about investing and who comes from a humble background suddenly has so much money to invest in various properties, this only means one thing – kept woman. And not forgetting that she has 2 expensive cars and sending her daughter to an exclusive school too. Just do the maths yourself. On her income from her various jobs, she won’t be able to afford all those.
@isay I hate to say it, but I have to agree with you. Judging from the terrible way Shirley handled her scandal (which was pretty much lie upon lie upon lie), it’s kind of hard for most folks to trust her when she claims she’s not dating someone wealthy and also that she knows nothing about investing and wasn’t buying any property. Unless all the previous reports about her struggling with odd jobs (some of which were confirmed by Shirley herself) were false and she truly is making alot of money on her own (which I highly doubt), otherwise, it’s not hard to figure out where the money is most likely coming from.
@isay yup…how else can she alone possibly afford all the expensive stuff when her career is so-so.
I wonder where her money comes from. Hope it’s via proper channel. Her daughter is getting bigger, and she will learnt about it some how….
It is very simple puzzle to solve, actually: who is her ‘daddy’? Lol!
She has been a proven compulsive liar in the past. I’m one of the few who hasn’t been sympathetic at all about her sob story of having to raise her kid as a single mum. She has to lie again so that she maintains the single mum image.
@jimmyszeto you said it well. Compulsive liar through and through. Funny thing is how she can snag a rich sugar daddy given her poor reputation, average looks, not exactly a spring chicken anymore and with daughter in tow. Surely the man must be quite blind or very benevolent.
@isay
She’s young looking and rich men like to play. To a rich businessman a few million is just a drop in the ocean.
@jimmyszeto no doubt the money is probably a drop in the ocean to a rich man but wont he prefer a spring chicken? She’s ok looking not gorgeous or sexy. Perhaps she’s good at other stuff.
@isay
Such a waste of a decent life and career. Initially it does not seem like she is a money moneygrabber after sticking to a poor boyfriend for many years. If only she broke up with her boyfriend properly and seeked a wealthy partner instead of cheating and lying then she would have had a decent future. Poor decisions.
@isay To a 60 or 70 yr old daddy, she is considered spring chicken still. LOL!!
Unless the whole “daddy/daughter” market place has changed now that even the old one can snatch up the young tarts without any problems.
@aiya you’re right. Spring chicken is a relative term. What I’m trying to say is that he would have plenty of better choices given his wealth.
@jimmyszeto Yup…I’m also one of the few who never felt any sympathy for Shirley because to me, she brought it all on herself by cheating and then telling lie after lie to cover it up. Sure, her ex Gregory Lee was a loser and she had no obligation to stay in the relationship if it no longer worked, but to cheat on him like that (ironically, with someone who was an even bigger loser than Gregory) and then essentially create a media circus to force him to break up with her, it was obvious from the beginning that Shirley was not the sweet innocent girl-next-door that the media had previously tried to portray her to be. And she’s actually not that pretty either – not sure how she ended up being the MHK first place winner that year, as she doesn’t strike me as being either ‘beautiful’ or ‘intelligent’ (as per the long-time MHK motto).
@llwy12
She does have the sweet innocent girl next door kinda look actually. However, it’s not even fitting to think like that about after knowing she’s cohabiting w/a b/f for that long and esp w/the whole family. That’s not innocent anymore??? I hear some people can seriously live that long w/o getting married but together w/their whole family? I am sorry, I think that’s kind of messed up? haha lol…. If the guy can’t even afford a place of our own, I would rather live in my own damn home than cohabit w/him and the whole family. That was just insane. But I don’t know if we can categorize her as a golddigger and compare her to Isabella Leong and those sort of women I mean if she is just in it for the money, she really wouldn’t have made it together that long w/that ex b/f Gregory dude. Certainly, it’s both parties involved that was messed up there that made them split and it’s really sad that dude was like a super cute talented child star that never even made it to secondary lead when he grows up. It’s actually quite sad however you think about it. She was actually kind likable and her priorities probably changed after 30 that made her jumped ship. We can’t never really know but Gregory dude does sound a bit too passive and just not like the macho macho type…even more of a boy next door type.
@kiki That’s the thing though – I think Shirley would’ve garnered sympathy for her plight if she had done things the proper way and not resorted to cheating and lying as a means of getting out of her situation. Two wrongs don’t make a right and the way she went about things as well as the dumb way she handled the aftermath pretty much destroyed her chances at the situation turning out even remotely in her favor. As for whether she is a gold-digger or not – well, my personal opinion is this: back when her scandal broke out, I didn’t have any sympathy for her, but at the same time, I didn’t feel she was a gold-digger, since the guy she ended up cheating with was not rich and later on was shown to be just as much a loser as Gregory was. In recent years though, with all the rumors of her having new-found wealth and supposedly living beyond her means, I’m not so sure anymore that the ‘gold-digger’ label doesn’t apply to her….of course, we may never know for sure (and to be honest, I don’t really care to know either, lol), but for the sake of her child, I hope she thinks about her actions and doesn’t continue to set a bad example for her daughter….
@llwy12
Unless she brainwashes her daughter, her daughter is bound to learn about her mother eventually.