{"id":500355,"date":"2026-06-19T05:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500355\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T05:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:35:15","slug":"hong-kong-actress-cecilia-cheung-wins-1-9m-lawsuit-over-contract-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/500355\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong actress Cecilia Cheung wins $1.9m lawsuit over contract dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A Hong Kong court has rejected a HK$12 million (S$1.98 million) claim lodged against Cecilia Cheung by her former agent, in which the popular actress was accused of reneging on a promise to star in several films, local media South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Cheung was sued in 2020 by her former agency Asia Entertainment Group and ex-manager Yu Yuk Hing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/entertainment\/hk-star-cecilia-cheung-breaks-down-in-court-over-2-1-million-lawsuit-so-unfair-to-me?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">supposedly failing to fulfil her contractual obligations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a judgement on June 16, the High Court found that Cheung had never signed an agency contract she was accused of breaching, nor did she receive any advance payment for her services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 2011 exclusive management contract Yu had sought to rely on in his claim was highly likely \u201ccreated\u201d by his younger brother to avoid tax liabilities, the court found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to SCMP, this finding comes after Hong Kong\u2019s Inland Revenue Department began investigating a HK$40 million payment the company made to Cheung in July 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Yu also could not prove he had paid Cheung HK$2.76 million as an advance payment for her appearance in two of the company\u2019s films between 2011 and 2014, SCMP reported, citing the court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to Singapore media Asiaone, the court awarded Cheung her legal costs after ruling in the actress\u2019 favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hong Kong court has rejected a HK$12 million (S$1.98 million) claim lodged against Cecilia Cheung by her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-500355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}