Wyatt Gallery confirmed he made an intimate video tape with Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2008 Anya Ayoung-Chee and her friend, but says Miss Japan 2008 Hiroko Mima was not in the video (even though the girl looks just like her).

Wyatt claims to have shot the video in 2007, but the Miss Universe organization released a statement saying it happened 8 months after the pageant. This actually puts Anya’s crown in jeopardy if she won Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2008 after she made the intimate video tape.

Gallery made this statement regarding the video tape leaking onto the Internet:

"I feel horrible and embarrassed for Anya, her family and myself, because this was a private moment that was never supposed to be made public. This was an intentional, malicious sabotage against Anya and her career, and I feel stupid for not deleting the files off of my computer."

Everyone has an intimate video tape these days, it can only help Anya’s career. As for Gallery’s claim the video was stolen from his laptop when he took it to a Trinidad computer shop for repairs, we don’t believe it.

A much bigger scandal involving Edison Chen, and many Honk Kong female celebrities who took a lot of intimate videos and pictures, led to a repair shop technicial being put on trial. Chen claimed his intimate pictures and videos were stolen from his laptop by a technician in Honk Kong.

Although it is common for technicians to steal files off of computers they repair, especially videos and pictures of celebrities getting it on, it is also possible Anya wanted the tape leaked to boost her waning career.

Gallery says he does not want the tape distributed any longer, but a lot of sites still have it up for your viewing pleasure. Click here to see them.

To see the biggest scandal ever to hit the Internet, which involved Edison Chen, click here.

We already know that a computer technician, Dicky Sze Ho-chun (24), leaked photos he stole from the laptop of Edison Chen, and although more details emerged at the trial, there is still more story to tell. What hasn’t been reported yet is that there is also a coverup to shield others who were involved, including those working for law enforcement in Hong Kong. It appears only Ho-chun will take the fall for distributing the pictures, when he was not alone.

Pictured above with his face covered is Computer technician Sze Ho-chun and his mother wearing masks walk out of the court in Hong Kong yesterday. Sze pleaded not guilty in the court to illegally copying and distributing more than 1,000 photos of Edison Chen performing s*x acts with a string of starlets.

More details have emerged from the trial of the computer technician who is charged with illegally accessing Edison Chen’s computer and distributing racy photos of him and numerous starlets.

According to Lianhe Wanbao, two female friends testified against Sze Ho-chun, 24. They were also the ones who reported him to the police when the photos started being widely distributed on the Internet in January 2008.

They say that in 2006, when he was at their store to repair an Apple PowerMacG5, he connected his computer to the company server to show them the racy photos.

He then burnt about 1,300 photos onto DVDs and passed it to them as gifts, and even told them how he obtained the images.

The computer technician, Dicky Sze Ho-chun (24), accused of accessing the private, intimate photos of entertainer Edison Chen and distributing them on the Internet, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of obtaining access to a computer with a view to dishonest gain for himself.

Ho-chun is alleged by prosecutors to have copied from a server thousands of images of Canto pop star Edison Chen Koon-hei engaged in s*xual acts with actresses and celebrities including Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, Bobo Chan, Rachel Ngan, and more.

Prosecutor Hayson Tse said that Sze’s colleague named Tse saved the computer data from Chen’s laptop on an external hard disk drive as backup when Chen took his machine to Elite Multimedia Limited for repair between 2005 and 2006.

Sze allegedly copied the photos from the hard drive to a computer server connected to the Internet.

The lewd images became widely circulated on the Web in late January, 2008. Sze was arrested on February 2 for distributing obscene articles but denied the charge.

"I didn’t distribute the celebrity n*de photos but I know my colleague repaired Chen’s computer around October 2006," Sze was quoted as saying.

However, 11 of the photos were recovered from Sze’s personal computer last year.

Tse added Sze had shown the images to two employees at a household store, which employed Elite Multimedia to service its computer.

The two females, Fanny Choi and Janet Leung, were quoted by prosecutors as saying Sze told them how he accessed the images. The women said Sze then handed them a compact-disc, containing 1,300 er*tic pictures.

Choi and Leung will be called to testify today.

Chief Magistrate Tong Man also heard Chen’s deposition, taken in Canada, in February.

Chen had declined to appear in a Hong Kong courtroom saying he feared for his safety if he came to the SAR.

Chen stressed in his deposition he was the sole user of all four computers involved in the case. He said he had not disclosed the passwords to those computers to anyone.

Only he and the women shown in the photos had seen pictures, which had been deleted from the digital cameras with which they were taken after Chen uploaded them to computers. None of the four women received copies.

Chen said either he or his driver would remain present when the machines were taken for maintenance and he never left the machines in the shop overnight with one exception.

Chen said he believed the pictures were stolen during a repair in 2006.

"They invaded my privacy and stole my things in a very direct way," he said.

The naughty picture scandal smashed Chen’s entertainment career in Hong Kong. He announced an early retirement from the local industry last year.

Sze, who doesn’t have criminal record, is on bail. If convicted, he could spend up to five years in jai. The trial at Kowloon City Magistracy will continue today. Sixteen witnesses have been called. The trial is expected to last for ten days.

The pictures showed Chen in compromising positions with celebrities including Canto-pop star Gillian Chung, actress Cecilia Cheung and former actress Bobo Chan.

Edison appeared in Singapore on Sunday (April 5) to promote his movie "The Sniper".

Wanbao reports that he lashed out at reporters from a local news website when they asked him about his father’s bankruptcy, saying "I don’t know why people won’t think that I will help my family. What makes you think that I am not helping my family?"

His appearance came less than a month after a Hong Kong television station received an anonymous letter packed together with a gold bullet warning Chen to stay away from public events if he valued his life.

Edison is a good example of how arrogance can ruin a person’s life.

Most of the photos can still be downloaded here.

China has hit a new milestone by reaching 221 million Internet surfers, and are now ranked first in the world for the most Internet users. Xinhua reports:

The Internet population in China reached 221 million by the end of February, which outnumbered the figure in the United States to rank the first in the world, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information.

The number was 210 million by the end of last year, only 5 million fewer than the U.S. Internet users then, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).

Despite rapidly increasing Internet population, the proportion of Internet users among the total population was still lower than the global average level, the ministry said, without giving specific figures.

The proportion was 16 percent at the end of 2007, compared with 19.1 percent of the world average, the CNNIC said.

A percentage of those Internet users discovered HG when we covered the Edison Chen scandal. HG loves China, and all of Asia! Someday soon I want to visit Asia, and take pictures with some of our smart readers there.

Only 2 months after news of the Edison Chen and Gillian Chung naughty pic scandal hit the Internet, Edison has now confirmed he lied when he said he would be retiring from the entertainment industry. HG received information Edison had met with executives in California to work for Hollywood, since Hong Kong felt so betrayed by his escapades.

Edison Chen will appear in a movie opposite Shu Qi, a Singapore newspaper, reported today. The movie is a collaboration between a Singapore company and an independent American production house.

Filming will take place in both Singapore and Chicago, and $13.8 million has already been secured for the film’s budget according to reports from Lianhe Wanbao. Shu Qi will play a woman who meets an American student, played by Edison, who is working in Singapore.

Edison’s agent has disclosed that the actor is going to start shooting this summer, according to China Daily, citing news agencies.

As HG reported previously, Edison’s plan was to simply transition from Hong Kong star, to international star, which lends more credibility to information we received that Edison leaked the naughty pictures himself to boost his career to International status.

The Hong Kong police (Yanzhao Gate) are continuing to leak information in the Edison Chen naughty picture scandal. It now appears that 8 daughters from wealthy families have now been implicated. Netizens have been hard at work identifying the girls shown in the silhouettes. Click the link below to see who the girls are, and to see a few pictures Edison Chen took of himself in the shower. We also now have a total of 10,000 pictures of Edison and his girls, which we will release at a later date.

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