Jilted groom in $300G suit
A WOULD-BE groom went from betrothed to betrayed when his fiancée fleeced him of close to $300,000.
Instead of walking down the aisle, runaway brideto-be Yu Qing Weng took the money and ran — after the couple celebrated a pricey pre-wedding banquet, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Jilted Jin Dong of Manhattan claimed his beloved bolted from their home in August 2017 — after bilking him out of $287,033 in cash gifts, jewelry and party costs.
Defendant Weng “induced plaintiff to marry her . . . without any intention of keeping her promise in order to obtain the money and jewelry,” alleged the lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Weng collected her prenuptial windfall in January 2017 — and disappeared seven months later with “all of the money and jewelry she received in anticipation of the contemplated marriage,” according to the lawsuit. She fled with $40,000 in “exquisite betrothal gold jewelry” and a $63,300 cash dowry paid by the groom, as is the custom in their native China, the lawsuit charged.
Dong additionally paid his fiancee’s mom an additional $5,300 “gift of appreciation” along with an extra $2,000 apiece to Weng’s grandmother and kid brother.
The lawsuit specifically charges Dong’s family and friends gave $110,000 in cash that disappeared along with Weng. In addition to the runaway bride, the lawsuit cites her parents Mei Zhu Weng (inset) and QiYong Weng.
“It’s not true,” said Yu Qing Weng at the Sunset Park home she shares with her parents. “I would never do this.”
“He’s making it up,” she added, deflecting questions about their split.
Her mom shot back that Dong was a cheapskate who — despite his free-spending claims — never even bought her daughter an engagement ring.
“We didn’t take the money. Jin Dong was mean,” the mom said through a translator. “He never gave (Yu Qing) any money to live. He didn’t buy her any jewelry.”
The couple “had an intimate relationship” before announcing their engagement in 2016, followed by a traditional wedding banquet “in anticipation of a contemplated civil marriage,” court papers said.