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Tycoon Stanley Hohas 17 children from four wives. Picture: AFP/AFPSource:AFP
- Jane Ho was one of the four children born to Stanley Ho's first wife, Clementina Leitao, who was from a prestigious Portuguese family. According to media reports, Ho studied law in England when.
- Ho’s first wife, Clementina Leitao, came from a prestigious family in Portugal and was known as the “greatest beauty in Macao.” Ho fell in love at first sight with Leitao and they were married in 1942. The couple had four children — Robert, Jane, Angela and Deborah. Leitao’s health deteriorated in the 1970s.
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Stanley Ho is known as the “king of gambling” — and with an $8.4 billion casino empire behind him, it’s not hard to understand why.
But thanks to his incredibly complex family life, the future of that empire could now be at stake.
Mr Ho, now 97, built the first casino in gambling mecca Macau in 1962.
He enjoyed a monopoly in the city-state for decades and today, his company, SJM Holdings Ltd, owns 19 casinos there.
He also founded a second company, Shun Tak Holdings, which has stakes in many industries including real estate, tourism, banking and more.
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A multibillion-dollar fortune has been amassed — but it’s now hanging in the balance thanks to his rival wives and children.
Ageing tycoon Stanley Ho’s family life is notoriously complicated. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
Mr Ho was born in Hong Kong, where polygamy remained legal until 1971.
Over the years, he fathered 17 children with four women he referred to as his “wives” — Clementina Leitao, who died in 2004, Lucina Laam, Ina Chan and Angela Leong.
Recently, his children from second wife Lucina made an alliance with a group of shareholders from Hong Kong’s powerful Fok dynasty, meaning they now control the board of the company as they have the voting majority.
The move comes right as the company prepares a bid to renew its casino licence — which will expire in March 2020 — to allow it to remain operating in the lucrative region.
According to Bloomberg, Stanley Ho and Lucina Laam’s daughter Daisy Ho, who is now SJM chair, announced the new alliance late last month.
Stanley Ho and his wife pictured in Hong Kong in 2003. Picture: SuppliedSource:AFP
“The shareholders in the alliance all possess irreplaceable goodwill, accumulated through prolonged understanding and exposure in various industry sectors in Macau and mainland China,” she said in a subsequent interview.
“Together with Timothy Fok, who is co-chairman of SJM, we can leverage and apply these resources to further develop SJM’s competitiveness to pursue the new gaming concession.”
The stakes are especially high at the moment for two main reasons — firstly, because new players in the gambling industry have muscled in on SJM’s territory over the years, stealing away clients — and money and power.
Pansy Ho is now one of the Ho family’s most powerful players. Picture: Triple Eight Vision/Corbis via Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
And secondly, because there have been increased tensions within the sprawling family itself in recent years, dating back to 2011 when a public spat over the Ho family wealth erupted, which resulted in much of it being divided up.
And last month, nephew Michael Hotung caused further headaches for the ageing tycoon after suing his uncle and claiming he was owed $360 million in shares dividends.
While at the moment Lucina’s children — especially “key Macau players” Daisy, Pansy and Lawrence — seem to hold all the cards, questions remain regarding how Mr Ho’s other surviving wives and their children could upset the apple cart.
Lawrence Ho previously worked with James Packer. Picture: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
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Lawrence Ho previously had a partnership with Aussie billionaire James Packer and is now CEO of Hong Kong entertainment group Melco International Development Ltd.
Daisy Ho is the chairman and executive director of SJM Holdings as well as the CFO of Shun Tak Holdings, while sister Pansy, a former TV actress, took over as Shun Tak chairman after her father’s retirement in 2017.
Fourth wife Angela Leong — a dance instructor-turned-real estate magnate who also serves as SJM co-chair and as a Macau legislator — is considered to be a particular potential threat, although nobody has confirmed what role she will play in the company’s future.
“The other parties involved, Angela Leong in particular, also have a lot of interests and a lot of influences in Macau,” analyst Vitaly Umansky told Bloomberg.
“My biggest concern is that does this create a situation at the company and at the board that leads to a lot of infighting and that leads to things being delayed and operations of the business not performing as they should?”
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No one can deny that the late Macau casino king Stanley Ho lived an epic life.
Not only was the 98-year-old the patriarch of Asia’s largest casino empire, he also built an impressive portfolio of global investments including real estate, banks, entertainment companies, hotels, and airlines, just to name a few.
With such influence, it comes as no surprise that several movies have been loosely inspired by the billionaire, like the 1992 Hongkong film Casino Tycoon and its sequel.
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- 1/4Stanley's first wife Clementina Leitão and the billionaire in their younger days
In the first movie, which was loosely based on Stanley's rise to greatness, Heavenly King Andy Lau played Benny, a young man who escaped from Hongkong to Macau during World War II and eventually found success as the head of a gambling mafia. '90s screen beauty Chingmy Yau played Benny’s wife, a character who is supposedly based on Stanley's first wife Clementina Leitão, whom the real casino king got hitched to in 1942. Chingmy's character would end up paralysed which drew parallels to Clementina who had gotten into a car crash in 1973 in Portugal where she was recuperating from an illness.
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In Casino Tycoon 2, which was released a few months later, the now-successfully Benny faced another problem — the enemies he made while building his empire. This time round, Benny vowed to get to the bottom of his son’s fatal car crash, which he believed was no accident.
The plot of the sequel was a direct reference to Stanley’s personal life. The billionaire's eldest son, Robert Ho had tragically passed away in a traffic accident in 1981 along with his wife, English model Suki Portier. Robert was only 33.
- 3/4Stanley and Andy on stage together at an awards ceremony
According to reports, Stanley enjoyed the movies and had approved of Andy's casting. He had reportedly told the movie's director Wong Jing that Andy was “handsome enough” to play the role. It's also been said that a number of Stanley's family members were fans of Andy, and that they were all thrilled to have the star play a character that was based on their patriarch.
When reporters reached out to Andy to get a comment about Stanley’s death, the 58-year-old star said: “Dr. Ho made great contributions to society in his life. May he rest in peace.”
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While he had certainly approved of Andy playing him in the movies, Stanley joked that he did not have as wild a love life as Andy's character. And that's coming from a man who fathered 17 children with four women and had been involved with several headline-making scandals in his lifetime.
He was alleged to have dalliances with some of Asian cinema's great beauties, like Jet Li’s wife and ‘90s actress Nina Li Chi as well as Deborah Lee, who is Patrick Tse’s ex-wife and mother of Nicholas Tse.
It was rumoured that Deborah had dated Stanley before getting hitched to Patrick in 1979 and that she had allegedly helped Patrick pay off his debts by asking her wealthy ex-beau for, um, help. The rumours grew so out of hand that some had even suspected that Nicholas might have been fathered by Stanley. It wasn’t until Nicholas grew up and started looking very much like Patrick in his youth did the rumours die down.
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