View the profiles of people named Clementina Leitao. Join Facebook to connect with Clementina Leitao and others you may know. Facebook gives people the. Ho’s first wife, Clementina Leitao, came from a prestigious family in Portugal and was known as the “greatest beauty in Macao.” Ho fell in love at first sight with Leitao and they were married in 1942. The couple had four children — Robert, Jane, Angela and Deborah. Leitao’s health deteriorated in the 1970s.

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No one can deny that the late Macau casino king Stanley Ho lived an epic life.

Not only was the 98-year-old the patriarch of Asia’s largest casino empire, he also built an impressive portfolio of global investments including real estate, banks, entertainment companies, hotels, and airlines, just to name a few.

With such influence, it comes as no surprise that several movies have been loosely inspired by the billionaire, like the 1992 Hongkong film Casino Tycoon and its sequel.

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  Stanley's first wife Clementina Leitão and the billionaire in their younger days

  In the first movie, which was loosely based on Stanley's rise to greatness, Heavenly King Andy Lau played Benny, a young man who escaped from Hongkong to Macau during World War II and eventually found success as the head of a gambling mafia. '90s screen beauty Chingmy Yau played Benny’s wife, a character who is supposedly based on Stanley's first wife Clementina Leitão, whom the real casino king got hitched to in 1942. Chingmy's character would end up paralysed which drew parallels to Clementina who had gotten into a car crash in 1973 in Portugal where she was recuperating from an illness.
  

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  In Casino Tycoon 2, which was released a few months later, the now-successfully Benny faced another problem — the enemies he made while building his empire. This time round, Benny vowed to get to the bottom of his son’s fatal car crash, which he believed was no accident.

  The plot of the sequel was a direct reference to Stanley’s personal life. The billionaire's eldest son, Robert Ho had tragically passed away in a traffic accident in 1981 along with his wife, English model Suki Portier. Robert was only 33.
  

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  Stanley and Andy on stage together at an awards ceremony

  According to reports, Stanley enjoyed the movies and had approved of Andy's casting. He had reportedly told the movie's director Wong Jing that Andy was “handsome enough” to play the role. It's also been said that a number of Stanley's family members were fans of Andy, and that they were all thrilled to have the star play a character that was based on their patriarch.

  When reporters reached out to Andy to get a comment about Stanley’s death, the 58-year-old star said: “Dr. Ho made great contributions to society in his life. May he rest in peace.”
  

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  While he had certainly approved of Andy playing him in the movies, Stanley joked that he did not have as wild a love life as Andy's character. And that's coming from a man who fathered 17 children with four women and had been involved with several headline-making scandals in his lifetime.

  He was alleged to have dalliances with some of Asian cinema's great beauties, like Jet Li’s wife and ‘90s actress Nina Li Chi as well as Deborah Lee, who is Patrick Tse’s ex-wife and mother of Nicholas Tse.

  It was rumoured that Deborah had dated Stanley before getting hitched to Patrick in 1979 and that she had allegedly helped Patrick pay off his debts by asking her wealthy ex-beau for, um, help. The rumours grew so out of hand that some had even suspected that Nicholas might have been fathered by Stanley. It wasn’t until Nicholas grew up and started looking very much like Patrick in his youth did the rumours die down.

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A rift has surfaced among gaming magnate Stanley Ho Hung-sun's next of kin over his two family trusts.

Deborah Ho, a daughter of the tycoon's deceased first wife Clementina Leitao, triggered a legal action in the High Court last Tuesday by asking her elder sister, Angela Ho Chiu-yin, who is the trustee of The Clementina Ho Trust and The Stanley and Clementina Family Trusts, to provide her with deeds and documents related to changes to the trusts' arrangement.

Deborah, as a beneficiary, also requested Angela elaborate on the amount and state of property of the trusts.

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Trust deeds, deeds involving removal and appointment of trustees, information of changes in the structure of the trusts, full trust accounts and financial statements and documents concerning remuneration received by Angela or other previous trustees were among the information she is seeking.

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Deborah also requested that her sister provide copies of all communications that had been made between Angela or other previous trustees and their legal advisers.

The minutes of three meetings between Angela and the beneficiaries, including herself, between 2013 and 2015 in her lawyers' firm, and the minutes and PowerPoint slides relating to a meeting on January 15 in the same location were also requested.

The documents must be handed over within seven days after the court made the orders.

A Friday statement Angela's lawyers issued on her behalf said it was unfortunate her sister had issued proceedings against her to obtain the documents.

It said under Angela's management, the trusts had outperformed the market and had been operating in a compliant manner. All beneficiaries' needs had been taken care of equally, and Deborah had not been denied any access to information relating to the trusts, it said.

The trusts had held annual meetings to reveal to all beneficiaries the status of its assets and performances. Deborah's questions were also addressed during the meetings.

Stanley Ho's four-decade grip on the world's biggest casino hub

'Deborah claims that she is ill in Macau and poor, and this is unfortunately a fabrication as she has received distributions annually on time and has received around HK$97 million (US$12.5 million),' it said.

Angela was quoted as saying: 'I am very sad and dismayed that all the family members have been dragged into this matter due to Deborah's unnecessary and disruptive actions.'

'King of Gambling' Stanley Ho, 98, one of Asia's richest men, monopolised the gaming industry in Macau until 2002, when the casino hub's government introduced foreign investors.

The Hong Kong-Macau business magnate co-founded SJM Holdings in 1962, which owns nineteen casinos in Macau including the Grand Lisboa. He has four wives and 17 children.

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