Can a sex scandal still ruin a star's career?

Something I found interesting while browsing CNN today is the story of Edison Chen, a Chinese actor whose photos of racy encounters with starlets were leaked to the Internet after an apparent theft during a PC repair.

The clip you are about to watch is a week old showing the emergent details of the scandal. Edison Chen has since resigned from the Chinese entertainment industry for an indefinite period (source: CNN).

I thought this would provide for an interesting debate. Is it good or bad that, for once, a sex scandal doesn't actually improve someone's entertainment career? And how about the level of governmental involvement?
lertadsays...

You don't understand Asian culture. The older majority running things still don't have a grasp on the modern world and consider sex to still be quite taboo. Asian culture is normally ultra conservative despite any impressions you may have from the Japanese's, shall we say, "more erotic" industries (no wonder they're the most "advanced" Asian nation excluding the recent advances from China, they learned to think rationally a long time ago). So sex scandals can ruin careers, at least for a certain period of time.


More interestingly though, is the story of the two mafia behind the two major broadcasting power houses which is suspected to be the cause of the leaked Edison tapes.

Kevlarsays...

Hi Lertad,
Interesting points! Thank you for contributing. Do you have a link to the story about the tape leaks?

Since this is my first sift attempt in quite a while, I guess it's time to *beg...

HaricotVertsays...

For those that don't know who Edison Chen is, we can create a fictional Western scenario of equivalent magnitude:

Justin Timberlake takes in his computer to have it repaired. The people repairing it start snooping around and find 1300 compromising photos of him with 7 female celebrities performing various sexual acts. These celebrities include:

Jennifer Garner
Jessica Alba
Kristin Kreuk
Hillary Duff
Lindsay Lohan
Keira Knightley
Natalie Portman

As such, all of the celebrities are dropped from practically all of their current and/or scheduled endorsements, movies, concerts, and divorced/separated from their current significant other/husband/fiancee.

That's pretty much what happened in Hong Kong.

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