Fan donates to charity for kids in Tibet with congenital heart conditions
BEIJING: Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, who won a lawsuit over infringment of her portrait rights, has donated 150,000 yuan ( RM96,355) of compensation money to a charity in Tibet.
A Chinese media company named Doulang, the defendant in the case, was found guilty of altering a video of Fan's appearance at a promotional event without consent.
It changed the promotional text in the clip to show the company name Doulang. The incident led to the impression that the actress was promoting Doulang.
The court ordered Doulang to compensate Fan Bingbing 150,000 yuan which the actress had decided to donate to the Heart Ali project, in which Fan Bingbing is one of the founders. The project pays for treatment for children in Tibet who are suffering from congenital heart ailments. The amount of compensation is just loose change for Fan Bingbing, a billionaire, who according to Daily News & Analysis, is among the celebrities who rushed to set up companies in Tibet and Xinjiang which offer preferential tax benefits. Besides Fan Bingbing, the report cited actress Zhao Wei who placed a US$ 440 million bid for Longwei Culture & Media, a Shanghai-listed animation company based in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The preferential tax policies were created to attract rich investors to the two Chinese inner area provinces that are suffering from occasional acts of ethnic violence. The two provinces are considered China's version of the British Virgin Island, a tax haven in the Caribbean, Shen Meng, executive director of Chanson & Co, a boutique i nve s tment bank in Beijing, said.