Feng Shui Master Charged Over Billionaire's Forged Will

...but the feng shui master is so rich he doesn't notice fraud

(NEWSER) - OK, we knew New York cab drivers like to overcharge tourists , but this is ridiculous. A Manhattan driver allegedly racked up a whopping $794,986 on Hong Kong megamillionaire Tony Chan’s credit card after picking him up at the airport, the New York Post reports. The cabbie allegedly kept Chan’s card info and used it to fund spending binges of as much as $19,000, prosecutors say—but Chan is so rich that he never even noticed (a bank security specialist stumbled upon the suspicious activity). Maybe he was preoccupied with his own legal troubles. More»

Billions go to trust, not her feng shui lover

(NEWSER) - Following a twisted series of sometimes bizarre court battles dating back to the '90s, a Hong Kong court today ruled that the $4.2 billion estate of Asia's richest woman will go to a charitable trust—and not to her feng shui master lover. Tony Chan claimed Nina Wang carried on an affair with him and left him her fortune, but the court deemed the will he produced a fake, the BBC reports. More»

(NEWSER) - The legal battle over the fortune of late billionaire Nina “Little Sweetie” Wang has gotten a little… odd, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tony Chan, a bartender-turned-feng shui master, says he carried on a passionate 15-year-affair with the pigtailed tycoon, and that she left him everything—including her pigtails. But her charitable foundation says the 2006 will he’s produced is a fake, and its efforts to block his claim include commissioning a puppet show. More»