SINGAPORE: Former lawyer Samuel Seow, 53, died on Saturday (Jul 25).<\/p>\n
Local filmmaker Kelvin Sng confirmed the news in a Facebook post on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Received the most shocking news last night that my Godfather Samuel Seow has passed on,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
“He became my godparent back in 2010 when I was baptised as a Catholic. Despite whatever that happened over the years, I choose to remember the good times and his goodness,” he added.<\/p>\n
Citing a statement from a family friend, The Straits Times reported that Seow died of a heart attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Samuel, who passed away peacefully in his sleep last night,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n
Seow founded artiste management firm Beam Artistes in 2010, which organises the Manhunt pageant. The company’s latest competition Masters of the World is set to kick off in September.<\/p>\n
CNA has contacted Beam Artistes for more information.<\/p>\n
Seow was disbarred\u00a0in May 2022<\/a> for physically and verbally abusing\u00a0his employees in 2018. He was subsequently sentenced to four weeks’ jail and fined<\/a> over the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: Former lawyer Samuel Seow, 53, died on Saturday (Jul 25). Local filmmaker Kelvin Sng confirmed the news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,398366],"class_list":["post-824839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-samuel-seow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824839","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=824839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}