Taroudant, Morocco- Cecil Chao, a Hong Kong real estate tycoon, made headlines in September 2012 when he announced that he would offer $65 million to a man who could woo and marry his lesbian daughter, Gigi Chao.
Now the Hong Kong billionaire has almost doubled the offer to $120 million.
Since 2012, Gigi Chao is in a civil partnership with a woman, Sean Yeung, but her father, the owner of Cheuk Nang Holdings Ltd., wants his daughter to marry a man so that he can have grandchildren to inherit his business.
"I would not force her to marry a man. But obviously I would, from my point of view, prefer her to be married and to have grandchildren.”
According to South China Morning Post, the latest offer of HK$1 billion has attracted 500 e-mails.
"I don't think my dad's offering of any amount of money would be able to attract a man I would find attractive," she told the South China Morning Post.
Om Wednesday, The 33-year-old has written an open letter to her father, urging him to accept her as she is and treat her gay partner as a "normal dignified human being".
"I am proud of my life, and I would not choose to live it any other way … I'm sorry I misled you to think I was only in a lesbian relationship because there was a shortage of good, suitable men in Hong Kong. There are plenty of good men, they are just not for me,” Gigi wrote in a letter sent to her father.
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