Published: 7:01pm, 10 Sep 2025Updated: 7:23pm, 10 Sep 2025
A former Miss Hong Kong runner-up has accused her businessman husband of threatening her with a knife and choking her at their home earlier this year, while insisting her allegations are irrelevant to their ongoing legal dispute over his family’s assets.
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Vivian Lee Ming-wai, 49, appeared at Eastern Court on Wednesday to testify against her husband, Johnson Chan, 58, who is on trial for criminal intimidation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Lee came second in the 1997 Miss Hong Kong competition, ahead of Charmaine Sheh Sze-man, now a popular actress with the city’s largest broadcaster, TVB.
Lee married Chan, the younger son of the late entrepreneur Chan Shu-kui, in 2003.
The court heard that the couple had an altercation over parenting matters at their luxurious house on Stanley Village Road in southern Hong Kong Island on January 21.
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Lee, who now lives separately at the Regalia Bay residential complex in Stanley, said Chan launched into a tirade in his private room that morning, violently smashing objects and swinging furniture.
She said she took photos of the room, intending to send them to her mother to ask her to call police, but provoked Chan’s anger after taking a photo inside a bathroom that showed his “drugs and paraphernalia”.