Bo Xilai's 170 mistresses: Wen Wei Po
Staff Reporter 2013-03-15 10:11
Bo Xilai during a meeting in 2012. (Photo/CNS)
Bo Xilai, the former party secretary of Chongqing, allegedly had sexual relationships with almost 170 women before his infamous downfall from China's political scene, according to the Chinese-language magazine Caixin Century, as cited in the Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po.
Jiang Weiping, a reporter working for Wen Wei Po, told the Voice of America that Bo Xilai had a more complicated life than most people saw from the media. During investigations by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Bo as well as his rumored mistresses were investigated by the Party.
The ongoing findings revealed that Bo had numerous extra-marital affairs even as early as his nomination to mayor of Dalian in 1992. Yu Mei, a fashion model from Dalian, testified that she became one of Bo Xilai's mistress after her husband, a crime lord in the city, was sent to jail. After having sex with Bo several times, Yu successfully convinced him to open a model school for her within a government building.
Bo would provide not only financial support to Yu, but would order the launch of an annual fashion festival in Dalian as a way to recruit more young students of Yu. Yu said that she paid a huge price to get these privileges, in the form of having her nipples being almost bitten off by Bo.
Jiang further explained that not all of the 170 females volunteered to become his mistresses. About 11 girls under 16 years old were actually raped by Bo. After forcing one underage teen to have sex with him, Bo threw both her and her mother in prison.
A senior official from Dalian told Jiang that there were always children looking for their fathers outside the government building of Dalian. Wu Wenkang, one of Bo Xilai's close associate in both Dalian and Chongqing, was actually responsible for looking for young actresses, singers and models to serve Bo Xilai in bed. Sometimes, Bo Xilai would also arrange women for his superiors from the central government in Beijing.
According to Jiang, this is how politics really works in China.
