Guo Meimei boasts about her US$838m account balance
Staff Reporter 2013-05-31 10:57
A new photo of Guo Meimei and her Sergio Rossie heels. (Internet photo)
Guo Meimei, the young woman who almost singlehandedly destroyed the reputation of the Chinese Red Cross in 2011, is in the headlines again, this time for allegedly boasting about the 5.14 billion yuan (US$838 million) in her bank account.
Fresh from rumors that she had been killed in Macau last month, Guo resurfaced on her microblog account this week with a photo of herself wearing a pair of Sergio Rossi crystal stilettos costing 17,120 yuan (US$2,790).
She also posted a screen grab of a mobile phone message from her bank, informing her that as of 11:12am on May 23, her account held a balance of 5,137,869,875 yuan (US$838 million) following an outlay of 7,240 yuan (US$1,180).
Chinese netizens have called Guo everything from "thick-skinned" to "shameless" — and much else besides — for her latest boast.
Others have commended Guo for her courage and consider she was criticized too harshly when she posted photos of her expensive handbags and sports car on the internet in 2011 while claiming to be a manager at the commercial arm of the Red Cross Society of China. Scandal and rumor have followed her ever since— including allegations of "sugar daddies" and sex tapes. The Red Cross has consistently denied that Guo has anything to do with the charity, but this failed to prevent the organization's battered reputation from being dragged through the m&d. As the only organization in China authorized to solicit charitable donations from the public, it has long been accused of siphoning off donations and refusing to be held to account.
Earlier this month, the state newswire Xinhua reported that the Red Cross's supervisory board remains undecided on whether to reopen their investigation into the Guo affair amid continued public outage, which spiked again when it became clear that the public were more likely to offer the charity abuse than donations in the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan province last month.
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