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Amy Yip - 1991 Newspaper Article

We're always trying to find interesting things to add to the Amy Yip Fan Blog, and here is an article about her from the January 17, 1991 San Francisco Chronicle. Though I reprinted it from Damon Foster's Oriental Cinema and Video Vol 2 #14 (The Sonny Chiba issue!)

Ex BofA Executive Jailed in Scheme to Pay Porn Starlet by Kenneth Howe, Chronicle Staff Writer

A former Bank of America executive in Hong Kong, said to be obsessed with soft-core porn starlet known as the ‘Asian Jane Russell’, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in jail for attempting to improperly transfer $2.37 million to her account.

Peter K.L. Chan, 39, pleaded guilty to a charge of making a fraudulent accounting entry and was sentenced by a H.K. district court judge. Police said that Chan became ‘obsessed’ with (Amy) in 1988 when she was a budding actress for a Hong Kong TV station and he was an assistant vice president at BofA’s Hong Kong branch in Kowloon.

On September 20, the authorities said, Chan signed a money transfer document that, if entered into the bank’s computers, would have shifted $2.37 million in Yip’s account.

A lower-level employee spotted the transfer document, noted that it lacked a required second signature and alerted his supervisor.

Chan, who started with the bank as a messenger in 1970, was immediately placed on suspension without pay and the matter was turned over to the police. He was fired in November, said a spokesman at BofA headquarters in San Fransisco.

According to the Associated Press, Chan told investigators that Yip was his girlfriend and that her demands for money drove him to commit the offense. Yip could not be reached for comment. Hong Kong newspapers reported that Chan, who was earning $3600 a month in his banking job, had sold his home and moved his mother into low-income housing so he could finance the relationship with Yip.

Yip has appeared in many spicy Cantonese-language films, among them ‘Erotic Ghost Story’ and ‘Jailhouse Eros’. She was involved in controversy earlier this year over a sexually suggestive phone message she recorded for a pay telephone service, according to the Associated Press.

“She’s a real bombshell,” said Man Lee, editor of the Chinese Times, a daily newspaper in San Fransisco. He said Yip appeared in the Chinese edition of Penthouse magazine.

“All the erotic starlets are jealous of Miss Yip because of her bust line”, said Lee. “She’s known as the Asian Jane Russell.”