@konah619: A millionaire father put a price on his daughter’s marriage and didn’t even take her into account. In September 2012, Cecil Chao, a Hong Kong real estate and shipping magnate, promised around $65 million (500 million Hong Kong dollars) to the man who could win over and marry his 33-year-old daughter, Gigi. The detail that makes it so shocking: she had been with her partner, Sean Eav, for seven years, and the two had celebrated a blessing ceremony in France. Gigi told the BBC that at first she thought her father was joking. He wasn’t. She received around 1,500 offers on social media, and according to the local press, a group of suitors carrying chocolates and red roses even waited in the lobby of her office, some after traveling from Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Chao, 76 and never married, said she was “intelligent and beautiful” and could do whatever she wanted, while he continued looking for a “good husband” for her. A father’s act of love, or the most expensive way to ignore who his daughter is?

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