Edison Chen Net Worth

The 2008 sex scandal involved sexually explicit nude photographs of Chen taken four years earlier, which became widely circulated on the Internet. Initially the authenticity of the photos was denied and digital manipulation was offered as the primary explanation for the pictures. Hong Kong police and Photoshop experts argued that the photos were in fact real and not digitally altered. Chen made a public apology in English to the Hong Kong people and the women involved in the photos and indirectly admitted his role, expressing remorse and subsequently announcing his indefinite departure from the Hong Kong entertainment industry. The scandal proved to boost public awareness of Chen when Google search engine rankings for 2008 resulted in Chen’s Chinese name being the No. 1 search term in China, and No. 3 in Taiwan. Chen was runner-up to U.S. president-elect Barack Obama in the Hong Kong Person of 2008 poll by government-run RTHK radio, with just under 30 percent of votes in the Person of the Year category.