10. Zhu Chen and Mohammed Al-Modiakhi
Zhu Chen is the former World Chess Champion among women. She held this title from 2001 to 2004. In 2001 she married a Qatari grandmaster Mohammed Al-Modiakhi. They met during one of the chess tournaments in Malaysia and it was love from the first sight. Today Zhu Chen lives in Qatar and represents this country in chess tournaments.
9. Michelle Yeoh and Jean Todt
Michelle Yeoh is the Malaysian actress of Chinese origin best known to Western audience as a “Bond girl” in the movie “Tomorrow never Dies”. People Magazine few times included her in the list of most beautiful women and that’s why her relationship with the former CEO of Ferrari racing team Jean Todt is sometimes called “Beauty and the Beast”.
8. Laura Ling and Iain Clayton
The journalist Laura Ling is famous for being detained for few months in North Korean prison. Sentenced to 11 years of labor camps she has been released only after the personal intervention of the former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Upon her arrival home she was met by her husband Iain Clayton – pictures of this meeting becoming popular all over the world. And less than a year later the couple welcomed their first baby.
7. Jennifer Chun and George Soros
6. Lucy Liu and Zach Helm
Yes, the famous “Tiger Mom” who presents herself as a symbol of strict Chinese parenting is not married to Chinese but to a Jewish American – Jed Rubenfeld – who is also teaching Law in Yale University. Curious fact: as Amy Chua says herself her two daughters “can speak Chinese, and they have been raised Jewish”.
4. Zhang Ziyi and Aviv Nevo
3. Wendi Deng and Rupert Murdoch
2. Tinglan Hong and Hugh Grant
When Hugh Grant came to Hainan to participate in the golf tournament for celebrities, he possibly wasinfected with “Yellow fever”. How else can you explain his words at one press-conference:
“I am very happy to contemplate (getting) a Chinese girlfriend. I must say I’m very charmed by Chinese women, so far. I’ve been here only 24 hours, but I’ve fallen in love four times.”
And it seems that he indeed has found a Chinese girlfriend – 19 years his junior Tinglan Hong.
1. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
Not all millionaires are old and bald. Take, for example, Mark Zuckerberg – the founder of social networkFacebook. At the age of 27 his personal wealth is estimated to be $13.5 billion. And there was always a high probability that the girl who could share this money with him would be of Asian origin. On his Friendster page (from pre-Facebook period?) in the section “What I enjoy doing” Mark wrote… “asian girls”. And it seems to be true. Since recently his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan became official. Well… sort of… they both changed their status in Facebook.
