Guo Meimei (; born 15 June 1991), born as Guo Meiling (), is a Chinese

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who was involved in some scandals and crimes.

Biography

Guo was born in

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in 1991, living with her mother in Yiyang and

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when she was a child. She went to

Beijing Film Academy Beijing Film Academy (BFA; ) is a coeducational state-run higher education institution in Beijing, China. The film school is the largest institution specializing in the tertiary education for film and television production in Asia. The academ ...

in 2008. Guo's mother, Guo Dengfeng, is a millionaire and owned two properties in

. She had made her wealth from successful stock market investments. Guo's parents divorced when she was young and her mother raised her alone. In order to compensate for Guo's childhood as a single parent's child, Guo Dengfeng attempted to make up for the mental anguish by providing Guo with a luxurious life. Guo frequently showed her luxurious lifestyle by posting on her

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page where she posted photos of her collection of Hermes bags and her

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car. During a Chinese Business News television program, Larry Lang Live, Guo claimed that she used to be a thrifty and "honest girl at heart" who turned to a luxurious lifestyle after interacting with rich people at her time at Beijing Film Academy. Due to her wealth, she was given the nickname Queen of the Fuerdais (second-generation rich Chinese).

Incidents

Relationship with the Red Cross Society of China

Guo Meimei was originally verified as an actor on

. Later she filed an application to change her title to the general manager of Red Cross Commerce, which Sina Weibo didn't check carefully, according to Weibo's statement. Her display of pictures showing a lavish lifestyle, driving a

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, and owning a big mansion drew skepticism from people who questioned if her wealth came from the

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and if the charity had misused its donations from the public. Guo said Wang told her about his planned investment in a company related to the Red Cross Society of China and he could get her a manager's position there. After her status was being questioned by netizens, Wang supposedly withdrew his investment from China Red Cross Bo'an Asset Management Co. Guo apologise for the incident and said she had never spent any money from the Red Cross Society of China. She also responded on her microblog saying she had no relationship with the Red Cross. She also said she wasn't the daughter of the organization's president or the granddaughter of Guo Moruo, a late Chinese scholar.

Illegal casino

In July 2014, Guo was arrested in

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for illegal betting on the

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. Prosecutors said Guo had rented an apartment in Beijing and subsequently organized poker sessions there in March, June and July 2013. Guo would take a cut of between three and five percent on each game played. During her trial, Guo denied running a casino but only gambled in the apartment. On September 10, 2015, Guo was sentenced for 5 years in prison and fined 50,000 yuan for running an illegal casino. On July 13, 2019, Guo was released from prison in

after serving her 5 years sentence.

Prostitution

A CCTV program aired in August 2014 claimed that Guo had engaged in prostitution, charging hundreds of thousands of yuan each time, to fund her lifestyle. Guo had confessed to prostitution.

Banned drug trafficking

On March 18, 2021, Guo was arrested in

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for selling diet products contain

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, a drug which has been withdrawn from the market in China since 2010. On October 18, 2021, Guo was sentenced for 2 years and 6 months in prison and fined 200,000 yuan for selling banned drugs.

References

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