Court Declares Nina Wang’s Will Fake, Feng Shui Master Denied Fortune

Nina Wang was Asia’s richest woman when she died in 2007.  A prior post reported that Wang’s family was fighting to invalidate a 2006 will that left her multi-billion dollar estate to feng shui master Tony Chan.  

Today BBC news reports that a high court judge in Hong Kong has declared that the 2006 will is fake and that a 2002 will, which leaves Wang’s fortune to a charitable trust, is valid. 

Interestingly, after Wang’s husband was declared legally dead (he was kidnapped in 1999 and never returned), a lower court held that the hand written will that Wang produced was a forgery.  A higher court reversed this ruling on appeal in 2005, and Wang ultimately inherited her husband’s estate.

See BBC News, Feng shui master denied Nina Wang fortune in Hong Kong, Feb. 2, 2010; see also my prior post for more information.

Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this to my attention.