Controversy child Guo detained for gambling
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GUO Meimei is back in the news — and for all the wrong reasons again.
The 23-year-old has been detained for betting on 2014 World Cup matches, Beijing police said yesterday.
Police said eight people, including Guo, gambled on an overseas website during the month-long tournament. Guo has confessed to betting.
Guo caused national outrage in 2011 after flaunting her expensive handbags and sports cars on the Internet. Her real undoing was her reported ties with Red Cross, which has since been in mired in series of controversies regarding corruption.
Police said Guo, who claimed to be a manager of an organization called “Red Cross Commerce,” had no links with the NGO.
But despite the scandal her antics did not stop.
In April, Hong Kong-based Eastweek reported that she was put on a creditor list after losing 260 million yuan (US$41.63 million) in Macau. But a month later, she found a new beau who paid off half her debts.
Her recent posts on Weibo microblogging site were about the World Cup, rooting for Brazil and Neymar. In one of her posts on June 11, she admitted to betting on aicai.com. That post has since been deleted.
On June 15 she wrote: “I am so heartbroken. I have lost so much today.”
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