Edison Chen

Edison Koon-hei Chen (born 7 October 1980) is a Canadian-born Hong Kong actor, singer, rapper, and fashion designer.

Having made his debut in the Hong Kong music industry in 1999, he released a number of Cantopop and Mandopop albums under the record company Emperor Entertainment Group before finally making his first hip-hop album in Cantonese with the critically acclaimed 2004 release of Please Steal This Album. He followed this up with the 2005 Cantonese hip-hop album Hazy: The 144 Hour Project and the 2007 Mandarin hip-hop album Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself. On 21 February 2008 he publicly announced that he intended to step away "indefinitely" from the Hong Kong entertainment industry due to the sex photo scandal in 2008, in which numerous photographs of his naked body and private parts, and those of several Hong Kong Chinese actresses, were published online.^[1][2] He returned in 2010 but other than a brief cameo in the 2014 film Golden Chickensss, he did not make a complete comeback to the Hong Kong film industry until 2016. Musically, Chen has since cemented his place in Chinese hip-hop with his 2010 comeback album Confusion, in addition to several successful studio albums since then.

2008 Photo / Sex Scandal

In 2008, Chen hired the services of a computer repair company to fix his computer.  However, employees of the company working on his computer took advantage of Chen's vulnerability when they discovered gigabytes of sexually explicit photos of Chen and various women engaged in sexual activity. They then proceeded to circulate the images on the Internet. Chen had never intended the images to be uploaded to the web, and the technicians responsible were later convicted and sentenced. The list of women who engaged Chen in fornication included numbers of Chinese celebrity A-listers: Cecilia Cheung, Gillian Chung, Bobo Chan, Candice Chan (陈思慧), Vincy Yeung (杨永晴), Mandy Chen (陈育嬬) and Rachel Ngan (颜颖思).