Recently, a sudden news shocked the whole of Hong Kong: Mui Yanfang's mother, Qin Meijin, announced that she had severed ties with her eldest son, Mei Qiming!
(Source: Network)
People who know Mei Yanfang know that her family's relationship has always been a chicken feather.
Mother Qin Meijin and eldest brother Mei Qiming, when Mei Yanfang was still alive, often reached out to her for money.
After Mei Yanfang's death in 2003, Qin Meijin made a lot of noise for her inheritance, and has been fighting a lawsuit for nearly two decades, and Mei Qiming has been "helping" her from the side.
How did the mother and son, who originally had a heart for inheritance, suddenly turn their faces and break off their relationship?
Mei Qiming sued the crew
The cause of this time should start from the movie "Mei Yanfang".
In 2021, the biographical film "Mui Yanfang" was released, which immediately set off a wave of nostalgia for Mui Yanfang, and the film also became the box office champion in Hong Kong in 2021.
But who knows, at this time, Mei Yanfang's eldest brother Mei Qiming suddenly jumped out and said: The movie "Mei Yanfang" is infringing, and asks the crew to lose money.
(Source: Hong Kong 01)
The reason why Mei Qiming said this is, of course, not because he is Mei Yanfang's eldest brother, but that he does hold the trademark "Mei Yanfang" in his hand.
As early as 2004, just after Mei Yanfang's death, Mei Qiming applied for the trademarks of "Mei Yanfang" and "ANITA MUI", and the category was "precious metals and their alloys".
In 2018, he submitted a "defensive trademark" application, expanding the scope of trademark coverage, including electronic goods, clothing, underwear, workshops, music, movies and performances, etc., and he also has a "Mei Yanfang Memorial Co., Ltd." under his name.
Therefore, Mei Qiming sued the crew of "Mei Yanfang" in court on the grounds of "infringement" and demanded that the crew compensate him.
However, some people found that the trademark in Mei Qiming's hand had actually expired.
(Source: Sky Eye Check APP)
Originally, I thought that this would be a war between Mei Qiming and the film producer, but no one expected that it was qin Meijin, the mother, who came out first to draw a line with her son.
Qin Meijin said that the accusation against the crew is completely Mei Qiming's personal behavior, which has nothing to do with herself, and she also threatens Mei Qiming to withdraw the lawsuit, if she does not withdraw the lawsuit, she will break off the mother-child relationship with him!
Qin Meijin, who has been following her son to earn money with her daughter for most of her life, at the age of 98 this year, I don't know if she suddenly woke up, she accused Mei Qiming of seeing wealth as her life, saying that Mei Qiming was in debt, and she was about to be forced by her son to be cornered.
But on the other hand, Mei Qiming said that although he and his mother have been fighting for inheritance for all these years, they have not fallen into a penny in their pockets, and Qin Jin has 250,000 Hong Kong dollars a month for living expenses, and only 20,000 hong Kong dollars have been distributed to him.
He also said that Qin Meijin was old, and someone must have instigated her to cut off relations with her own son, just to plot the old man's money.
(Source: Sing Tao Daily)
On February 14, 2022, Valentine's Day, Qin Meijin officially broke off the mother-child relationship with Mei Qiming.
Public opinion was suddenly in an uproar, and everyone felt unbelievable, because the past of their mother and son joining hands to compete for Mei Yanfang's inheritance was still fresh in their minds!
An insatiable mother
Qin Meijin has a total of four children, namely: the eldest son Mei Qiming, the second son Mei Deming, the third daughter Mei Aifang, and the fourth daughter Mei Yanfang.
At present, in addition to the eldest son Mei Qiming, the other three children have died of cancer.
Mei Yanfang was very bitter when she was a child, and when she was 4 years old, she worked as a singer with her sister Mei Aifang to support her family.
Qin Meijin values sons over daughters, and is very harsh on her two daughters, but she loves her eldest brother Mei Qiming.
Later, Mei Yanfang became popular and became a superstar of the Queen of Heaven, and naturally made a lot of money, so she became a "cash machine" for her mother and eldest brother.
Qin Meijin and Mei Qiming used the excuse of doing business, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of people looking for Money from Mei Yanfang.
But in fact, the money was taken by the mother and son to pay off the gambling debts, and they even transferred the gambling debts to her behind Mei Yanfang's back.
Later, Mei Yanfang really couldn't stand it, so she broke off her relationship with her eldest brother in the newspaper, and learned to only give her mother a fixed living allowance every month, and no longer squandered a large amount of money.
This practice continued into her will.
Mei Yanfang left a legacy worth 100 million yuan that year, and she distributed it like this: she gave two properties to her friend Liu Peiji, and set aside 1.4 million yuan for the children of her second brother and sister for education.
She entrusted the rest of the property to the HSBC International Trust, asking them to pay 70,000 Hong Kong dollars a month for Qin US dollars as living expenses.
In 2003, when Mui Yanfang died, 70,000 Hong Kong dollars a month was already a lot, and she could fully afford the daily life of Qin Us dollars.
But Qin Meijin is insatiable, and her daughter is left with a property of 100 million, how can 70,000 yuan alone be enough?
So since Mei Yanfang's death in 2003, Qin Meijin has taken the boss Mei Qiming to start his later career of running for the court for his inheritance.
Twenty years of competition
Mei Yanfang died on December 30, 2003, and Qin Meijin began to file a lawsuit in early 2004, saying that Mei Yanfang had signed a will in a delirious situation and could not be counted, and all the inheritance should belong to her.
In 2006, she sued the executor, the attending physician, and the beneficiary of the estate, saying that they had colluded to trick Mei Yanfang into signing.
In the seven years from 2003 to 2011, Qin Meijin appealed many times, trying to prove the invalidity of the will from various angles, and she also said, "With Mei Yanfang's cultural level, how can you understand what a trust fund is?" Must have been deceived. ”
She also scolded Mei Yanfang's friends over and over again, saying that they instigated Mei Yanfang not to recognize her mother, and the one she hated most was Liu Peiji, who had acquired the property.
Mei Yanfang and designer Liu Peiji (Source: Network)
However, Qin Meijin's claims have been rejected by the court again and again.
In 2011, when she lost the case again, Qin Meijin even pulled a banner at the entrance of hsbc headquarters in Central to protest, calling Mui Yanfang's inheritance case a "century fraud case", which attracted many passers-by and reporters.
Over the years, because of inflation and because Qin Meijin has been pestering, the court ruled that her living expenses have also risen again and again, from the initial 70,000 per month, up to 200,000, and then to 250,000, but Qin Meijin still does not give up.
Not only that, but her legal fees were also drawn from the inheritance.
In order to cover her high litigation costs and increasing living expenses year by year, the trust fund that manages the estate had to auction Mei Yanfang's living belongings to obtain working capital to pay Qin Us dollars.
Even in 2015, Mei Yanfang's personal belongings such as awards and underwear were auctioned off, and finally her former friends Zeng Zhiwei, Jacky Cheung and others, together with fans, raised millions of dollars to auction off these personal belongings one by one to maintain Mei Yanfang's last dignity.
Over the years, the boss Mei Qiming has been accompanying Qin Meijin as a "spokesperson", and in the eyes of outsiders, they are obviously one.
But just a few days ago, Qin Meijin, who had run for money all his life, suddenly jumped out and accused his son of "treating wealth as his life" and cutting off relations with him, which was really surprising.
Could it be that the older you get, the more you finally wake up?
You know, when Mei Yanfang was seriously ill, Qin Meijin called Mei Yanfang for the first time when she learned of her illness and said, "How is your inheritance prepared?" Hurry up and give me a sum of money! ”
At present, Mei Qiming's complaint against the film producer has not yet been won or lost, and the direction of the relationship between mother and son is still unknown.
Why don't you talk about it: Why do you think Qin Meijin suddenly broke off the mother-child relationship?