# Hong Kong Billionaire offers $70 million to marry his marry his beautiful daughter **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977 "2012-09-27T05:52:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/1 "2012-09-27T05:52:46Z")
The only problem for the would-be groom is; [the daughter’s homosexuality](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208967/Cecil-Chao-Sze-tsung-Billionaire-offers-40million-reward-man-marry-lesbian-daughter.html). ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/2 "2012-09-27T06:01:18Z")
A $70 million dowry and a wife who doesn’t even want me to have sex with her? I’m gay and I’d do it even if I did have to consumate the marriage. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/3 "2012-09-27T06:27:07Z")
Wow, that’s an incredibly evil thing to do, when you think about it. Imagine all the guys that are gonna be stalking and harassing her! ETA: And I wonder what percentage of her potential inheritance that represents. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/4 "2012-09-27T11:03:40Z")
Traditionally, do daughters inherit in China? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/5 "2012-09-27T13:39:06Z")
Meh. I’d marry her, split the money with her and then tell her that if she wished, she and I would never need see each other again except whenever needed to satisfy her father. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/6 "2012-09-27T13:46:05Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Traditionally, do daughters inherit in China? No, they fight over it after yer dead. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/7 "2012-09-27T13:50:57Z")
And she’s already married to a woman. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/8 "2012-09-27T13:52:04Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Meh. I’d marry her, split the money with her and then tell her that if she wished, she and I would never need see each other again except whenever needed to satisfy her father. This. Do I need to **stay married to her?** If so, that’s a whole new ball of wax. I could do a year stint, for 20 mil. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/9 "2012-09-27T15:01:11Z")
Has anyone called Chaz Bono? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/10 "2012-09-27T15:34:40Z")
I’m betting what he’s really after is a grandchild. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/11 "2012-09-27T15:56:59Z")
> [@Meatros](#): > > Do I need to **stay married to her?** Eh, I’m 50 years old and feel no need to be married for any real reason, so it wouldn’t bother me if I was married to someone on the other side of the planet who I rarely interacted with. Might cause some minor inconvenience on the dating front. “No, I can’t marry you, I’m already married to this young lesbian from Hong Kong. Her father wouldn’t let her inherit his money unless she was married. That’s how I got my money, honey. Now if you ever decide to give up on men, I’ll introduce you…” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/12 "2012-09-27T16:53:16Z")
Hell, I would divorce mrAru so they could get married, and she could keep her rather congenial looking partner on the side as long as mrAru could keep me on the side. I figure one son in vitro to keep evil Daddy happy, and a couple years down the road a congenial divorce and splitting of the 40 million, and mrAru keeps whatever business Evil Daddy has set him up with, no problem. [Hm, we had joked about opening a Bojangles fried chicken/Cinnabon franchise in the canal district of Amsterdam … won’t anybody think of the American Stoner children? :p] ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/13 "2012-09-27T17:52:04Z")
She’s pretty attractive. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/14 "2012-09-27T18:02:57Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Traditionally, do daughters inherit in China? Even if they do not, this is not an inheritance, this is a dowry. ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/15 "2012-09-28T13:47:36Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > And she’s already married to a woman. Her dad doesn’t seem to think so. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/16 "2012-09-28T14:20:57Z")
The wrinkle here is that part of the stipulations are you have to win her heart and turn her straight. This may take some planning, depending on how Daddy intends to determine this. It may not be as simple as letting us each have our own relationships in a marriage of convenience. Especially, since FIL has the means and motivation to do a lot of checking up on us. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/17 "2012-09-28T16:33:58Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > A $70 million dowry and a wife who doesn’t even want me to have sex with her? I’m gay and I’d do it even if I did have to consumate the marriage. I’m guessing daughter is probably dead set against the idea or she probably would have found some cute guy to play stunt hubby long ago. ---
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/18 "2012-09-28T16:38:53Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > The wrinkle here is that part of the stipulations are you have to win her heart and turn her straight. Yes. The situation is not “here is a pile of money to marry my daughter,” it is “IF my daughter will marry YOU, you get a pile of money.” It’s still weird, but not nearly as insulting as the former. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/19 "2012-09-28T20:17:48Z")
I’m not going to going to marry his marry his anything! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977/20 "2012-09-28T20:34:52Z")
That is some serious, world-class denial her dad has going on. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hong-kong-billionaire-offers-70-million-to-marry-his-marry-his-beautiful-daughter/635977.md?page=2)