Taipei, Nov 24 (DPA) A US model has flown into Taipei to sue a Taiwan man for using his photos to lure up to 20 women into sex and defraud others, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
“I am shocked. How could he do such a thing?” Richie Kul, 29, asked in an interview with the Apple Daily.
“Violating the copyright of my photo is a small thing. What is serious is his using my photos to cheat women. My heart goes out to all the victims.”
Kul said he learned about the Taiwan man’s activity after a friend visited Taiwan and read the news.
“Many friends told me not to come to Taiwan (to file the lawsuit), but I insisted on coming here because I don’t want a repeat of the crime,” the paper quoted him as saying.
It is not clear when Kul will file the lawsuit and how much in damages he will seek from the Taiwan swindler.
Kul, 181 centimetres tall and weighing 67 kg, was the son of a Chinese-American father and Chinese-Thai mother. He was born in Thailand but emigrated to the US when he was two-years-old.
After graduating from Stanford University, he worked as an investment banker before taking up fashion modelling in 2004.
Based in New York, he works for several modelling agencies including Europe’s leading agency Model1 and German agency Place Models.
The Taiwan man who used Kul’s photos to lure women, Hsu Hsien-ming, 50, a bald divorcee and stock-market analyst, was arrested Nov 13 in Taipei.
Hsu posted photos of Kul online and used the images to lure women. Going under the name Angor, he introduced himself as a 30-year-old son of a Taiwan father and French mother. He claimed to be on business in the US but looking to marry a Taiwan woman.
However, “Angor” would not consider marrying a woman unless she was prepared to have sex with his father – whom Hsu portrayed, claiming to have terminal prostate cancer and requiring constant sex to say alive.
Some 100 women, ages 28 to 50, were drawn in by the scheme, about 20 of whom went on to have sex with Hsu. Others sent money to help with breast cancer surgery for Angor’s mother, who did not exist, either.
