Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman, dies
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-04-04 16:31
Asia's richest woman Nina Wang poses with a comic character
of herself called "Nina" that was sold for HK$3,500 ($450) during a
charity at the Hong Kong Comic Fair in this July 29, 2001 file photo.
[Reuters]
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HONG KONG - Asia's richest woman, Nina Wang, has died of an unspecified
illness after reports she had been battling cancer, leaving unanswered questions
over the estimated $4.2 billion fortune she left behind.
Known for her
signature pigtails and nicknamed "little sweetie" by the local media, Wang, 69,
won a court case in 2005 for her late husband's business empire in a case filled
with tales of adultery, kidnapping and murder.
The Hong Kong heiress,
whose maiden name was Kung, was reported by local newspapers to be suffering
from cancer, but that was never officially confirmed.
"Chinachem Group's
chairwoman Nina Wang Kung passed away on April 3 and the details of the funeral
will be announced later," her personal assistant, Ringo Wong, told Reuters by
telephone.
Wang's company, Hong Kong's largest private property
developer, Chinachem Group, confirmed in a statement that she died on Tuesday.
Wang was ranked by Forbes Magazine as Asia's 35th richest person, having
successfully battled her father-in-law for a multi-billion dollar estate left by
her late husband Teddy Wang, a property tycoon who vanished more than a decade
ago.
Central to the marathon probate case was a handwritten will which
Wang said was penned and signed by Teddy in March 1990, a month before he was
kidnapped and never seen again.
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