Hong Kong (CNN) — The decorated Hong Kong aristocrat who offering millions of dollars to any male who could win a heart of his lesbian daughter says a offer is now off a table.
But he’s still refusing to acquire her long-term womanlike partner into his family.
Cecil Chao, a rich genuine estate developer, done headlines around a universe in 2012 when he offering 500 million Hong Kong dollars (roughly $65 million) to any male who succeeded in marrying his daughter.
‘Dear Daddy’, group aren’t for me
$64M to marry my happy daughter
Recent reports that he was peaceful to double a offer put his family behind in a headlines. Gigi Chao, 34, responded by essay him an open letter, published in internal newspapers this week, seeking him to come to terms with her sexuality.
In a letter, she told him that she was happy in her attribute and urged him to yield her partner, Sean Eav, as “a normal, cool tellurian being.”
“If Gigi’s pronounced that this is what she chooses, afterwards it’s all over,” Cecil Chao pronounced Thursday an speak with CNN’s Monita Rajpal. He pronounced a outrageous sum he had offering to intensity suitors “stays in my pocket.”
Daughter asks him to accept who she is
Refusal to acquire partner
But a 77-year-old tycoon, who has 3 children yet has never married, is incompetent to welcome his daughter’s adore life.
“I can’t contend we am happy with her choice,” he said. “If this is her choice afterwards it’s for her.”
And he pronounced he wouldn’t be welcoming Eav, 46, into his family, notwithstanding his daughter’s plea.
“I have no goal of blending my life with her life,” Cecil Chao said. “But if this is what she wants, afterwards we honour her choice.”
His comments follow Gigi Chao’s poignant letter, explaining a conditions to him.
“As your daughter, we would wish zero some-more than to make we happy,” she writes. “But in terms of relationships, your expectations of me and a existence of who we am, are not coherent.”
‘Her private life is hers’
Cecil Chao creatively due a multimillion dollar dowry in 2012 after it emerged that his daughter and Eav had their attribute sanctified in a church rite in Paris.
He pronounced Thursday that his daughter had never told him in chairman that she was a lesbian.
“I saw it in a paper,” he told CNN’s Rajpal, even yet they work together during his company.
“We see any other each day,” he said. “We have many occasions to be together, yet her private life is hers.”
The successful businessman warranted a repute in Hong Kong for appearing on a pages of internal newspapers and magazines in a arms of pleasing women. He once reportedly bragged of carrying had 10,000 girlfriends.
Men are ‘just not for me’
In her letter, Gigi Chao tells her father that she “will always pardon we for meditative a approach we do, since we know we consider we are behaving in my best interests.”
And she says she takes shortcoming for some of her father’s unnoticed expectations.
When he initial announced a gigantic dowry in 2012, she pronounced during a time she found it “quite entertaining.”
But this week she seemed to set a record straight.
“I’m contemptible to trick we to consider we was usually in a lesbian attribute since there was a necessity of good, suitable group in Hong Kong,” she writes. “There are copiousness of good men, they are only not for me.”
Decision not final
Cecil Chao pronounced Thursday that he offering a income any male who could marry his daughter since he wanted “to yield a best choice for Gigi” for her destiny life.
She says in her minute that she felt “an wondrous discomfort” in a participation of boyfriends she had in a past. But with 46-year-old Eav, she says she is “comfortable and confident with my life and totally during palliate with her.”
In a speak Thursday, Cecil Chao regularly pronounced that a large financial offer to any male who could win his daughter’s palm in matrimony was finished.
“I wish we or a other press are not going to speak about it anymore,” he told Rajpal.
But he also suggested that he wasn’t vouchsafing go of a thought entirely, observant that a offer was over “for a time being.”
When asked what he meant by that, he said, “Until she changes her mind.”
CNN’s Michala Sabnani and publisher Alisha Haridasani contributed to this report.