Patrick Tse, the Hong Kong screen legend who died of pneumonia on July 16 at the age of 89, was cremated on the morning of July 21.<\/p>\n
His family announced his death on July 20 and honoured his wish for a low-key funeral by holding the service under his birth name, Tse Ka Yuk.<\/p>\n
In keeping with his final wishes, only three people attended the funeral \u2013 his son, Nicholas Tse, his daughter, Jennifer Tse, and his ex-wife, Deborah Lee.<\/p>\n
Lee, the mother of Nicholas and Jennifer, divorced Patrick Tse in 1995.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, the former couple remained close friends, with many saying their bond grew even stronger after their marriage ended.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following Tse\u2019s death, Lee was seen with red, swollen eyes, visibly overcome with grief.<\/p>\n
Although only three family members attended the funeral, reports said Tse was surrounded by loved ones during his final days.<\/p>\n
Actress Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas\u2019 ex-wife, reportedly arranged for their eldest son to return to Hong Kong from his overseas studies so he could spend time with his grandfather before he passed away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their younger son was also by Tse\u2019s side.<\/p>\n
According to Hong Kong media reports, Patrick Tse generously gifted his former daughter-in-law Cheung a HK$70 million (S$11.5 million) mansion. In his will, he left the majority of his estate to his two grandsons, Lucas and Quintus, sons of Nicholas Tse and Cheung.<\/p>\n
His son Nicholas and daughter Jennifer would each receive a portion or a tenth of the estate.<\/p>\n
Jennifer, who lives in Canada, flew home after learning that her father had fallen seriously ill, while Nicholas cut short his work commitments in China to return to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Even before his condition worsened, Tse \u2013 affectionately known as \u201cSei Gor\u201d (Fourth Brother) \u2013 received frequent visits from family and friends, according to China Press.<\/p>\n
While Nicholas visited regularly, actors Gordon Lam Ka Tung and Jaycee Chan also stopped by multiple times to keep the veteran actor company.<\/p>\n
Lam is the writer and producer of the 2021 film\u00a0Time, which marked Tse\u2019s return to acting after years of retirement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tse\u2019s performance earned him the Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, becoming a fitting final accolade in his illustrious career. THE STAR\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Tse, the Hong Kong screen legend who died of pneumonia on July 16 at the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-818031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}