Mistress rumors kill rich girl's Internet auction
(eastday)
Updated: 2005-07-15 09:20

After creating a controversy on the Internet, and being called more than a few names, a 24-year-old Shanghai woman has stopped an online auction for a number of luxury goods to prevent damaging her career.

The web page on Chinese well known auction website Taobao where Da Beini puts her several items of luxury goods on sale, all for charity. On the upper left posts the super rich girl's photo who is just 24-year-old. [eastday]

In April, Da Beini set up an online auction of several opulent apartments, a Lexus sedan, and various other goodies, such as Louis Vuitton handbags, a cell phone and a personal digital assistant (PDA).

The sale quickly set off rumors about how the young woman came to acquire such wealth, with one message on the bulletin board attached to her online store calling Da "the wealthiest mistress in Shanghai."

"I don't want rumors around me every day, which have already seriously affected my normal life, so I took them off," Da told Shanghai Daily during a telephone interview yesterday evening .

Several of the smaller goods she put up for action on Taobao.com, one of the country's popular auction Websites, received bids, so she couldn't cancel the sales.

But the apartments and cars were pulled from the site last night.

Da claimed that all the articles were her personal properties, and she bought them with her own money. When she set up the auction, she said all profits from the sale would go to charity.

She added that online speculation has seriously affected her normal life.

At a bulletin board on Sohu.com, a woman using the cyber name "Beinie" claimed Da was the mistress of a wealthy real estate tycoon.

Beinie said that she was a travel agency clerk who helped Da handle her application for a shopping trip to Hong Kong last October.

She recalled that the woman requested to stay at the best five-star hotel in Hong Kong and her trip was paid for by an accompanying businessman.

"It's absolutely nonsense," Da said, adding that her ex-boyfriend was an unmarried Taiwan businessman and all the things were bought with her own money.

The widespread rumors might push away potential clients, said Da who works in the financial sector.

Along with her auction, Da posted a story about her five-year love affair on the Website.

"I just want to write about all the things that are familiar to me and my boyfriend to tell him that I still love him deeply and am waiting for him to come back, though we have separated due to some misunderstanding."

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