Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, Hong Kong billionaire is offering $65 million to any man who will woo his daughter, a 33-year-old lesbian who has never been with a man, according to NBC News.
The shipping magnate made the offer after his daughter Gigi married her girlfriend of seven years Seab Eav in France. The billionanaire tycoon is refusing to accept the gay union and vowed to offer $65 million to any potential male suitor able to walk Gigi down the aisle at a traditional wedding.
Denying reports of his daughter's same-sex wedding and calling them "false," Chao told the South China Morning Post (via CTV News), "I don't mind whether he is rich or poor. The important thing is that he is generous and kind-hearted."
In addition to the generous reward for marrying his daughter, Chao has also promised to help the successful suitor launch his own business. He called the prize money "an inducement to attract someone who has the talent, but not the capital, to start his own business," according to CTV News.
Cecil Chao Sze-tsung says the offer to anyone who will marry his daughter, Gigi Chao, is "an inducement to attract someone who has the talent but not the capital to start his own business," according to a quote in the BBC.
His daughter, Gigi a 33-year-old University of Manchester graduate, said she thought the offer was 'quite entertaining'.
She told the South China Morning Post: 'Sometimes people just refuse to accept what they are told.