Peter Chan: reinvention of a nobody with a big smile
He was just married, living in a public housing flat, when he met the woman who made him her HK$2.7b penthouse lover
From bartender to fung shui master, Peter Chan Chun-chuen rose from being a nobody living in a public housing flat to a man worth more than HK$2.7 billion.
A self-taught fung shui practitioner, Chan, now 53, amassed most of his fortune by pleasing late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum - as her lover, as he claims, or as her sycophantic eunuch, as Wang's siblings have claimed.
Whatever the real nature of their relationship, they stayed close. Yet there was no concrete proof of their intimacy until a video supplied by Chan was played in court last month. It showed Wang locking lips with Chan, 23 years her junior, and him running his hands over her body on an excursion to Sai Kung.
Chan's father was a secondary school teacher and his mother a housewife. He completed his education at Matteo Ricci College, and, at 18, got a job as a bartender at the South China Club for a few months before working as a machinery salesman for five years. Chan had been jobless for a year when he met his wife, Tam Miu-ching, a tour guide, in Beijing in 1989.
He moved in with Tam's family in a public housing estate in Lam Tin before they married on March 9, 1992.
Just three days later he had a fateful encounter with Wang, a woman desperate to locate her missing husband, Teddy Wang Teh-huei, who was kidnapped in 1990 and was never seen again.
