Obit: Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing

01 Apr 03 - 11:26 AM (#923611)
Subject: Obit: Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing
From: Stilly River Sage

Sad story turned up in Google News this morning. Chinese actor and singer Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing jumped to his death today.

HONG KONG: Canto-pop superstar and actor Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing fell to his death from the sixth floor of a five-star hotel at the Central district in an apparent suicide here Tuesday.

Cheung, 46, was found sprawled on the main Connaught Road just outside the hotel at 6.41pm. A note was also found on him. He was taken to the Queen Mary Hospital where he was declared dead. According to sources, the note stated that he was sober and was troubled by "affairs of the heart." However, police here confirmed a man was fell to his death and was found outside the hotel but refused to confirm the identity. They said the deceased was a man surnamed Cheung and was aged 46.The youngest of 10 children to a famous tailor, Cheung was born in Hong Kong on Sept 12, 1956.

The rest of this article is from a journal called The Star Online

This from the BBC

I'm not familiar with him, but many of our UK folks might be.

SRS

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