Are the pictures real?Everyone must have heard or read about this news. Some may be still guessing if the photo are real?
What was a girl like Chung, from the squeaky-clean group Twins, doing in such an X-rated picture? Why would she have posed with a breast peeking out from her bikini and her legs spread apart? Did she even ever date Chen?
Her company, Emperor Entertainment, declared in a statement when the pictures leaked out that the picture was a digital composite – a fake, in other words.
Newspapers including Ming Pao Daily News, Apple Daily, Oriental Daily News and The Sun took the same position in front-page new stories last Tuesday.
They said the photo and another allegedly of Chen and his reported ex-girlfriend Bobo Chan – which showed up on Monday – were digital fakes.
But the serial prankster (or pranksters) struck over and over again last week, posting more and more explicit alleged pictures of Chen and Chung, and also of actress Cecilia Cheung.
And more and more newspapers have changed their tune. Apple Daily, for instance, no longer says the photos are composites.
Last Wednesday, the police arrested an unemployed man in connection with the circulation of the obscene pictures. But they have not found out if the photos are fakes, reports Apple Daily.
Photography experts don’t think they were doctored.
“They’re 100 per cent real,” said The Straits Times’ senior executive photographer Alan Lim. “The perspective, dots per inch, grain, lighting, shadow and skin tone are all constant,” he added.Hong Kong’s renowned photography lecturer Joseph Fung, who was shown the pictures of Chen and Chung, also told Ming Pao that the images did not seem modified.
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Photos of Edison Chen and Gillian CheungBoth Alan Lim and AsiaOne's web designers say that these photos are real.
Looking at a single photo alone may lead many to believe that it is fake, especially one with an angle where Gillian does not seem to have a neck. But when the photos were compared to each other, the experts believe them to be genuine. AsiaOne's web designers Lim Ling Li and Li Peijie cite the consistency of the lighting in the entire series of photos as the most obvious piece of evidence. Said Peijie: "It is difficult to find photos of the same person in so many different angles under the same lighting conditions even if you have very good (photo manipulation) skills."
Alan told the Sunday Times, "If all the faces were taken from movies and photos and stripped onto the bodies, what movies and photos would require them to have such facial expressions?"
SOURCE HAS BEEN TRACEDOther Hong Kong female celebs later reported to have been caught in risque situations included Cantopop queens Joey Yung and Bobo Chan.
The Hong Kong Standard reported that Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Vincent Wong Fook-chuen said the source of the pictures had been traced. But he would not confirm reports they had been taken from Edison's computer.
'The source of the case has been found. We believe very much that it was because of someone taking his computer for repairs and that others had, via illegal means, taken out the information,' he said.
According to the Hong Kong blog ESWN, which has been keeping a running account of the story with translations from many of the Hong Kong newspapers, reported that the pictures were initially discovered several months ago when Edison sent his Apple Powerbook laptop to a computer shop for repairs.
The technician accidentally discovered photographs and videos of Edison and more than a dozen Hong Kong celebrities, which he downloaded onto his own computer.
Sing Pao newspaper reported the technician said he 'only intended to keep the material for his own enjoyment'.
Later, however, he invited some friends over to his apartment to play mahjong and casually mentioned that he had some 'good' stuff to show them.
When his friends saw the material, they were 'astonished', the paper reported, and urged him to post them on the Internet.He was said to be reluctant because he knew Edison had his contact information, so finally a female friend agreed to do it.
The computer shop was subsequently raided by police.
An unidentified 23-year-old man arrested last Saturday is expected to be charged with the dishonest use of computers with criminal intent, which has a maximum penalty of five years' jail.
Reward: $91,000 for Edison's hand FIRST, Hong Kong triads were said to want actor Edison Chen dead.
Now, word has it that an underworld figure has offered a HK$500,000 ($91,000) reward to hack off one of his hands, reported Apple Daily Hong Kong.
Chen has apparently been targeted by the triads after hundreds of obscene photos of him and several female celebrities like Bobo Chan and Gillian.
Chung were stolen from his laptop computer and posted on the Internet.
On Sunday, more photos of Chen and Chan were circulated online.
Apple Daily HK, quoting a police source, reported that someone is planning to harm Chen when he returns.
Chen is now lying low in Boston, on the advice of his management company, Media Asia.
He planned to return to Hong Kong last Saturday and hold a press conference on Sunday, but pulled out at the last minute, saying he had something to attend to.
The other reason was that AIG Building in Hong Kong's Central district allegedly declined to lease its premises for Chen's press conference, citing security reasons.
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