Doubts over Faye Wong's divorce
- By Zhang Rui
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Pop star Faye Wong and actor Li Yapeng are checking their divorce papers at an undisclosed location in Xinjiang. [File photo] |
Pop diva Faye Wong has become involved in a new controversy today about whether she was really divorced when a local government official denied the existence of an official procedure.
The Civil Affairs Bureau of Urumqi released a statement, saying "We have not dealt with Faye Wong and Li Yapeng's divorce procedure. We handle all cases in the same way."
The bureau's initial statement on September 18 was to refute some Internet users who said the government department gives special treatment to the celebrity couple, even providing a meeting room for them to examine the divorce agreement, as a released photo indicated.
"The photo in question was not taken in our office and the staff were not from our office either," the statement said.
A bureau official told the China News Service Monday that their investigation confirmed that they didn't deal with the couple's divorce procedure.
Li and Wong registered their marriage at the same bureau in 2005.
Civil Affairs Bureaus of three other cities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which deal with marriage and divorce affairs relating to Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, all denied they have dealt with the couple's divorce.
Wu Jinfeng, a local legal expert, said that if such a couple wants to get the divorce documents, they have to go to the civil affairs bureau, or they can go to the court and apply for the documents there.
"Li and Wong probably went through the court procedure," he explained.
The two reportedly divorced on September 13 when Wong unexpectedly wrote on her microblog, "our relationship as a couple ends here. I'm all right. Take care of yourself."
Li then confirmed the split in his own microblog, saying "I need a family, but you are destined to be a legend. I miss all the best times of the past decade. I still love you as I have always done, and I regret that letting you go is the only thing I can do now."
Li also mentioned that their daughter, Li Yan, will live with him and since both of them are financially independent, there will be no difficulties about dividing posessions.
The divorce caused a media frenzy after hundreds of reporters waited at the airport to get photos of Wong and Li when they came back to Beijing from remote Xinjiang. Wong’s initial microblog post has been retweeted 785,864 times. One rumor after another appeared such as that Wong would go to monastery after divorce.
Faye Wong posted another microblog on Sept. 18, saying "It is me who has chosen to divorce. There was no third party involved, no wife and mother-in-law or financial problem. This is not a sad cliché TV drama. We split in peace, and want to live a different life. We are still a family for the sake of our child. Thank you Li for tolerating all of this with love and wisdom. Our charity fund will not stop. And I will not become a nun."
Faye Wong's representative declined to respond to the Civil Affairs Bureau’s claim, saying " too many people are talking at the moment, so we choose to remain silent."
Neither Wong nor Li have posted any information on their blogs.
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