# Fan Bingbing (X-men) disappears from sight. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-bingbing-x-men-disappears-from-sight/821422 "2018-09-16T02:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-bingbing-x-men-disappears-from-sight/821422/1 "2018-09-16T02:40:17Z")
Does China still send people to work on the Communes? I guess that would be better than a jail cell. > **[Fan Bingbing, Top Chinese Actress, Missing And May Be Imprisoned](https://deadline.com/2018/09/fan-bingbing-top-chinese-actress-missing-and-may-be-imprisoned-1202465347/)** > > Fan Bingbing, Top Chinese Actress, Missing And May Be Imprisoned It’s dangerous being a celebrity in a Communist country. Hopefully Bingbing will eventually reappear after her run in with authorities. [https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/09/14/asia/fan-bingbing-china-celebrity-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F](https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/09/14/asia/fan-bingbing-china-celebrity-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F) > [@](#): > > Across the country, her face once adorned thousands of advertisements, her star power used to sell a galaxy of luxury brands, from Cartier to Louis Vuitton. She was a regular sight at major award shows and fashion ceremonies. In 2015, Time Magazine named her China’s “most famous actress.” > > But the film star hasn’t been seen in public since early June, when, according to a post on her verified social-media account, she went to visit a children’s hospital in Tibet. > > In an article by state media Securities Daily on September 6, which was later deleted, the publication said Fan had been brought “under control and about to receive legal judgment.” ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-bingbing-x-men-disappears-from-sight/821422/2 "2018-09-16T02:45:34Z")
Wikipedia. She’s had quite a successful career singing and acting. > **[Fan Bingbing, Top Chinese Actress, Missing And May Be Imprisoned](https://deadline.com/2018/09/fan-bingbing-top-chinese-actress-missing-and-may-be-imprisoned-1202465347/)** > > One of the top actresses in China has not been seen in public since June, disappearing without a trace. Fan Bingbing, one of that nation’s highest-paid and most bankable stars, is well-known … Bingbing may be banned from acting for 3 years. > **[Fan Bingbing’s Silence Fuels Rumors of Acting Ban](https://variety.com/2018/film/news/fan-bingbing-rumor-acting-ban-tax-evasion-scandal-1202902939/)** > > A Hong Kong news outlet is reporting that Fan Bingbing, China’s highest-paid actress, has been banned from acting for three years amid allegations of tax evasion, but there has been no indepe… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-bingbing-x-men-disappears-from-sight/821422/3 "2018-09-16T23:05:35Z")
[Moderating] Added parentheses to the title, as it was difficult to parse. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2018, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-bingbing-x-men-disappears-from-sight/821422/4 "2018-09-16T23:12:56Z")
Thank you. Her role in X-Men: Days of Future Past (playing Blink) is probably the film most people here are familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-bingbing-x-men-disappears-from-sight/821422/5 "2018-09-18T02:58:58Z")
I only recognize her name because she’a a fashionista wearing the most stunning gorgeous gowns ever run up in a designer showroom. Funny, all that fame and money isn’t doing her much good at the moment, but in China, meat is meat. Money is involved.