After the disappearance, Nina Wang took control of Chinachem. In 1999 a court officially declared Teddy Wang dead. His father, Wang Din-shin, then asked the courts to accept Teddy’s 1968 will that made Din-shin the sole heir to his son’s estate. Din-shin said the 1968 will was drafted after Teddy Wang hired a private detective to prove that Nina was cheating on him with a warehouse manager. It replaced a 1960 will that gave Nina Wang and Din-shin equal shares in the estate.
Nina also produced a will. She claims it was written in March 1990, one month before Teddy Wang disappeared. The 1990 homemade will leaves Teddy Wang’s entire estate to Nina.
“No financial or property interests can go to anyone from my family, the Wangs. They have all been disappointing,” the 1990 will read. It ended with a handwritten love note that read, “One life, one love.” Nina filed the will in 1999. Din-shin immediately lodged a police report claiming it was forged, and the probate battle began.
It ended this week when the presiding judge, David Yam , issued a 500-page judgment discrediting the 1990 will. Yam said Teddy Wang would have never written a will without lawyers and that there was no evidence to show he was a romantic man who would have written such a note. Handwriting experts testified that the 1990 document was written as late as 1996.
But Nina Wang wasn’t the only one to have her reputation tarnished. Evidence showed that Teddy Wang’s father smoked opium and had a mistress. And it was proven that Teddy Wang himself had an affair in 1968. When his safety deposit box was opened after his disappearance, photos of “certain ladies” were also discovered.