A Hong Kong court has found the feng shui guru to Asia's former richest woman guilty of forging her will, after years of drama that has tugged at the city's courtrooms.
On Thursday, 53-year-old mystic Peter Chan was charged with mocking-up the will of heiress Nina Wang-the late property developer who was known for her eccentric style and pigtailed hair-after her death in 2007.
$4 billion dollars were at stake, in this curious story that has captivated Hong Kong since it first broke, the BBC reported.
Wang-who, according to the Wall Street Journal, gained the nickname "Little Sweetie" from her brightly colored micro-miniskirts-bequeathed her multibillion-dollar empire to a charity affiliated with her developing company, Chinachem.
But shortly after her passing, divination master Peter Chan-who changed his name from Tony Chan following his conversion to Christianity-approached courts with a claim that the two were lovers, and that she had given him a separate document time-stamped from 2006 that purportedly left her entire fortune to him.
The courts heard handfuls of eccentric stories of Chan and Wang's lurid romance, including his initial courtship, in which he gave the heiress 23 years his senior a head massage.
This is not the first time Chan has fought for the tycoon's cache of cash: for years, the geomancer has battled tooth-and-nail for money that he claimed is rightfully his.
But in 2011, the court dismissed his testimony, saying that he had forged the legal documentation, and that her estate would be given to charity, as she first intended.
Chan received 12 years in jail for faking Wang's will this week, ending the years-long drama that captivated Hong Kong.
