1. Joseph Lau Luen-hung is a Hong Kong billionaire businessman.
21 Facts About Joseph Lau
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Joseph Lau has a younger brother Thomas and two younger sisters.
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Joseph Lau attended the University of Windsor in Canada before returning to join his family's business making electric fans in 1974.
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In 1985, Joseph Lau switched Evergo's business focus to investment-holding and property-management services.
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In March 2014, Joseph Lau resigned from his positions as chairman and CEO of Chinese Estates after a Macau court convicted him of bribery and money laundering.
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Since the 2021 academic year, in order to commend underprivileged students who successfully enroll in the 8 major universities in Hong Kong, The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust has launched a scholarship programme.
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The total investment in the complex exceeds HK$600 million, with a donation of HK$400 million from The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust.
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Meanwhile, Joseph Lau Ming-Wai made significant contributions to charity and social progress.
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Joseph Lau owns the painting Everything Must Go by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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In 2006, Joseph Lau purchased Andy Warhol's Mao, a portrait of Mao Zedong, for $17.4 million at Christie's.
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In February 2020, Joseph Lau offered his David Hockney painting The Splash at Sotheby's contemporary art sale in London.
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Joseph Lau owns a collection of more than 10,000 bottles of red wine.
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Joseph Lau married Po Wing-kam in 1977 and they were divorced in 1992.
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Joseph Lau was formerly a member of the Commission on Poverty.
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Joseph Lau had five additional children with two women concurrently out of wedlock, two with Yvonne Lui and three with Kimbee Chan.
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In May 2007, Joseph Lau was revealed to be among the first seven purchasers of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet for private use.
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In November 2015, Lau bought two expensive diamonds for his 7-year-old daughter Josephine.
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Joseph Lau subsequently renamed them the "Sweet Josephine" and the "Blue Moon of Josephine" respectively after his daughter.
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On 7 December 2016, Joseph Lau married Kimbee Chan in Hong Kong.
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Joseph Lau was sentenced to five years and three months in prison, but he appealed.
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Joseph Lau has so far evaded extradition and remains as a fugitive at large, as Macau and Hong Kong do not have an extradition treaty.