In November 2006, Chen allegedly purchased a pink
PowerBook from eLite Multimedia, a computer shop in Hong Kong's
Central district. According to the police, Chen's "Cotton-candy Mac" computer was sent in for repairs, and an estimated 1,300 intimate photographs of Chen and numerous female celebrities may have been accessed and copied by one or more of the shop's employees without consent.Chen's photographs were reportedly taken some time between 2003 and 2006.One close friend indicated that Chen liked to take photographs during intimate moments with his sexual partners, of whom 14 were celebrities, and privately showed these to a select group of close friends.
The first photograph, depicting Chen and a female presumed to be
Gillian Chung, was posted on the Web site
Hong Kong Discuss Forum at approximately 8:30 p.m. on
27 January 2008. Although the original post was deleted after a few hours, some visitors forwarded the image to other major forums in Hong Kong such as
Uwants and
HKGolden. Chung's management agency,
Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG), immediately challenged its authenticity, and filed a police report.
At 3 p.m. the day following EEG's statement, a second explicit photograph of Chen with another female presumed to be
Bobo Chan appeared on the Internet. An emergency meeting was held at EEG immediately that evening after which the company declared that it would pursue the publisher of the image for this "irresponsible" and "malicious act." Gillian Chung was reportedly very distraught, had taken a leave of absence, and would not comment on the matter. Shaped by the denials, the initial media consensus was that the photographs had been
manipulated.The story became the headline of major local Hong Kong newspapers.
At 12:30 p.m. on
29 January, a higher resolution photograph appeared on the Internet. Journals noted the uncanny resemblance to Cecilia Cheung, noting her physical features and her distinctive tattoo set.The photographs became the talk of the town, and local
discussion forums became saturated as a result. A low-resolution sequence (photos 4 to 7) of Chen with a female resembling Chung wearing a bikini at the start of the sequence appeared at 3 p.m.; a photograph of Cecilia Cheung standing in a bathroom with her back facing the camera appeared at 6 p.m.Journals established that the photographs were taken inside Chen's residence by comparing the backgrounds with known video footage. Nevertheless, Cheung's solicitors denounced the upload as a "malicious, immoral and irresponsible act". The police and photographic experts, who examined the images involving the first three female celebrities, said the photos were unlikely to have been composites.
On
6 February, a forum user leaked hundreds more photographs in defiance of the police. The uploader, dubbed by the public as "Kira" with reference to the protagonist in the
manga "Death Note" stated he was not in Hong Kong, and promised to release a 32-minute video the next day.
On
8 February, three pictures of a girl/young woman showering appeared on the Internet. The subject was rapidly identified as 18 year old Vincy Yeung (楊永晴), Edison's girlfriend and niece of
Albert Yeung (Chairman of EEG). The police confirmed these three images were part of the batch of 1,300 photographs known to them. Having said there were only six victims, the police explained the appearance of a seventh, saying that her photographs had been erroneously grouped with one of the other females.
On
14 February, two new photographs surfaced. One photograph featured an unidentified woman
fellating Edison, and another showed
Rachel Ngan lying on a bed.
Edison chen official apology
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