{"id":"court_ctb_477_1","court":"CTB","case_no":"22-50073","doc_number":477,"sub_number":1,"doc_type":"EXHIBIT","filed_date":"2022-06-20","title":"EXHIBIT A FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/16/2018 09:51 AM** INDEX NO. 152123/2018 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 15 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 0","summary_zh":null,"summary_en":null,"body_en":"# **EXHIBIT A**\n\n**FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/16/2018 09:51 AM** INDEX NO. 152123/2018 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 15 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 07/16/2018 Case 22-50073 Doc 477-1 Filed 06/20/22 Entered 06/20/22 21:12:25 Page 2 of 21\n\n> SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK\n\nZHENG WU a/k/a BRUNO WU and YANG LAN,\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------X\n\nIndex No. 0152123/2018\n\n-against-\n\n### AMENDED COMPLAINT\n\nGUO WENGUI a/k/a MILES KWOK, Justice Assigned: Hon. Barbara Jaffe\n\nDefendant. --------------------------------------------------------------XX\n\nPlaintiffs Zheng Wu, a/k/a Bruno Wu, and Yang Lan, by their attorneys Arkin Solbakken\n\nLLP, as and for their complaint against Defendant Guo Wengui, hereby state as follows:\n\nPlaintiffs,\n\n### PRELIMINARY STATEMENT\n\n1. This action is brought against Defendant Guo Wengui (\"Guo\"), a citizen of numerous countries including Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and the Republic of Malta, who-after having been accused and convicted of a broad array of criminal acts-fled to the United States with the hope of purchasing for himself the type of unofficial asylum reserved for those of extreme wealth.\n\n2. Indeed, notwithstanding evidence tying Guo to money laundering schemes, forgery, bribery and physical and sexual assault, Guo has been able to obtain temporary refuge from his crimes in the United States, where he purchased a penthouse apartment in the prestigious Sherry Netherland at 781 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York for which he paid — \\$67.5 million in cash.\n\n3. With this new home becoming a base of operation, Guo commenced his propaganda campaign designed to meet his twin objectives of obfuscating his criminality and increasing the odds that his pending political asylum application is granted.\n\n\"China\" 4. In particular, Guo has sought to define himself as a liberal-minded refugee by dribbling out over social media largely nonsensical claims of purported acts of corruption and high drama within the People's Republic of China (\"PRC\" or \"China\").\n\n5. By these yarns, Guo pitches himself as a \"pioneer of using YouTube and Twitter tofight for the rule of law, human rights, freedom and democracy in China.\"\n\n6. But in reality, Guo is nothing more than a two bit con-man.\n\n7. His \"revelatory\" claims of political corruption are little more than cheap and defamatory falsehoods about the personal lives of various Chinese and American citizens that Guo hopes to paint as antagonists of soap operatic proportions, and which he then feeds to his millions of \"followers.\"\n\n8. Guo does not expose \"corruption\"; instead, he uses the internet as an extension of his chaotic and criminal enterprise.\n\n9. Thus, this action was originally brought in March 2018, by filing of the Summons and Complaint, to hold Guo to account for his wanton and malicious acts of defamation and to compensate those his deluded efforts have harmed.\n\n10. Far from curtailing his activities, however, in response to this case, Defendant Guo has actually stepped up his attempts to silence Plaintiffs, and has now conspired with third parties, including, but not limited to, his own son Mileson Guo and others, to assist him in what has become a world-wide campaign of bullying and intimidation.\n\n11. Accordingly, this Amended Complaint is being filed to address Guo's continuing and escalating misconduct, which has now veered into a conspiratorial attack on Plaintiffs.\n\n### JURISDICTION AND VENUE\n\n12. Pursuant to CPLR 301 and CPLR 302, this Court has jurisdiction over Guo because he is a resident of, and regularly conducts business in, New York County and New York State.\n\n13. Pursuant to CPLR 503(a), venue is proper because Guo resides in New York County and has been actively publishing defamatory statements from his residence in this County.\n\n### THE PARTIES\n\n14. Plaintiff Zheng Wu is successful Chinese-American investor and media entrepreneur and a published author.\n\n15. Plaintiff Zheng Wu also serves as a member of the intentional board of Museum of Television & Radio in New York & Los Angeles.\n\n16. Plaintiff Zheng holds a Bachelor's degree in business management from Culver-Stockton College of Missouri, a Master's degree in international relations from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University.\n\n17. Plaintiff Yang Lan is a leading broadcast journalist and media entrepreneur in China, well-known for her focus on social and cultural issues.\n\n18. Plaintiff Yang Lan was recognized by Forbes as one of the world's 100 most powerful women.\n\n19. Plaintiff Yang Lan has a Bachelor's degree in English language and literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.\n\n20. Plaintiffs have been married for twenty-three years and reside together in Beijing, China. Throughout their marriage, Plaintiffs worked together on numerous business and charitable ventures.\n\n(\" Stars\" 21. For example, Plaintiffs co-founded Sun Seven Stars Capital Group (\"Seven Stars\"), through its predecessor Sun Media Group Holdings Limited, in 1999 and developed the company into one of the leading entertainment, media, and investment companies in Asia.\n\n22. Seven Stars has a presence in over 10 major cities around the world and earns billions of dollars in sales annually.\n\n23. Plaintiff Zheng Wu serves as Seven Stars' Co-Chair and Chief Executive Officer.\n\n24. Plaintiff Yang Lan serves as Seven Stars' Co-Chair.\n\n25. Plaintiffs also worked together in support of charitable organizations, including co-founding the Sun Culture Foundation which focuses on providing equal educational opportunities for underprivileged children and sponsoring Beijing's \"Giving Pledge\" event with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\n\n26. Defendant Guo is a billionaire who purports to have made his money in various real estate ventures in China, and who now lives in \"self-imposed exile\" in New York City. Guo has sought permanent residence in the United States via an application for asylum, predicated on nonsensical claims levied by him in an effort to present himself to the United States government as a political refugee.\n\n27. Guo possesses passports from numerous countries, including those from Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and the Republic of Malta, and uses a number of aliases, including Guo Wen Gui, Guo Haoyun and Miles Kwok, among others.\n\n28. Guo also maintains and controls a number of media accounts, including a Twitter account with the handle @KwokMiles (which has approximately 494,000 followers) and at least two YouTube accounts under the usernames \"Miles Kwok\" (which has approximately 11,000 subscribers) and \"\\$[¤Cÿt\" (which has approximately 174,678 subscribers).\n\n### FACTUALBACKGROUND\n\n29. Contrary to victimology cultivated by Guo through media manipulation, he is not now, nor has he ever been, a political prisoner of the PRC.\n\n30. Instead, Guo's relationship with the criminal authorities first began when he was approximately 18 years old and convicted of fraud, whereupon he was imprisoned along with others determined to be guilty of acts of petty thievery.\n\n31. Guo was not, as he otherwise contends, jailed with \"pro-democracy activists and political dissidents.\"\n\n32. Subsequent to this period of incarceration, Guo went on to engage in increasingly more sophisticated financial frauds, concocting Ponzi schemes designed to enrich himself personally, to the detriment of his unwitting victims and the unfortunate business \"partners\" he ultimately turned against.\n\n33. For example, Guo engaged in a series of fraudulent transactions whereby hundreds of millions of dollars were fraudulently obtained from the Agricultural Bank of China through the use of fake contracts, false receipts and creative interpretations of the word \"leverage.\"\n\n34. Guo also undertook efforts to work with officials from (and ultimately began to work for) China's Ministry of State Security (\"MSS\"), China's central intelligence agency with both domestic and foreign jurisdiction.\n\n35. In particular, Guo struck up a close relationship with MSS leader Ma Jian, which resulted in Guo's participation in a number of covert and illegal acts, including \"investigations\" targeting Chinese nationals and United States political leaders, for which Guo has received medals from his MSS colleagues.\n\n36. Other Guo associates are now, like Ma Jian, under investigation or prosecution for bribery and abuse of power crimes, including Zhang Yue, who acted as the Head of the Politics and Law Committee in China's Hebei Province, and Meng Huiqing, who was an official with CPC's Ant-Corruption Commission.\n\n37. But Guo's acts were not predicated on Guo's belief in any particular political philosophy; instead, like everything else Guo undertakes, he sought to benefit personally from his relationship with the government, particularly with corrupt officials in intelligence and law enforcement agencies.\n\n38. This included telling those he was assisting in investigating that he might obtain lighter sentences for them - so long as they transferred over to Guo their assets for Guo's personal use.\n\n39. Guo also took as many precautions as he could to insulate himself from having to answer for his double dealing, often recording or video-taping government officials or business colleagues and acquaintances with sex workers Guo himself employed and planted - recordings he then used as a means of extortion.\n\n40. And when politics in China changed, so did Guo's \"loyalty.\"\n\n41. Indeed, on more than one occasion Guo has promised allegiance to the PRC if onlytheywill take him back with the promise of no prosecution.\n\n42. In exchange for special treatment by the PRC, Guo also (a) promised to provide the location of various Chinese political dissidents in the United States, (b) spied on and wiretapped various government figures, including former United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Charles Johnson and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair, for which he has received MSS medals, and (c) colluded with various terrorist organizations.\n\n43. Far from being the anti-government crusader that he portrays himself to be from his comfortable surroundings in New York City, Guo was and is more than happy to remain an agent of the government that he now claims to hate - so longas there is somethingin it for him.\n\n#### GUO IS OUTED BY THE MEDIA\n\n44. Eventually, the story of Guo's wrongdoing and the toxicity of associating with him came to light by and through the press.\n\n45. In particular, in 2015, a watershed expose was published by Caixin Media Company Ltd, implicating Guo in a conspiracy to oust Beijing's mayor and various other potentiallywrongful acts he had undertaken.\n\n46. This same article reported on Guo's plan to video the deputy mayor of Beijing's private sexual activities as part of a scheme to discredit the municipality's political leaders and to enable Guo to acquire development rights to a plaza located near the Bird's Nest stadium in the Olympic Park of Beijing.\n\n47. By at least one account, Caixin's coverage lead to an article that became the most widelyread article in the historyof Chinese journalism.\n\n48. Moreover, media outlets began reporting in April 2017 that former MSS leader Ma Jian abused his power between 2008 and 2014 to jail, extort, or seize the property of Guo's business rivals in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes from Guo.\n\n49. The media also reported that Guo paid millions of dollars to former Hebei Provincial Police Chief Zhang Yue, who in return interfered with and investigated Guo's business rivals, allowing Guo to obtain favorable deal terms or shutting out competition.\n\n50. As a result of these reports and follow-on reporting, Guo was thrust into the international discourse.\n\n51. Guo's crimes, too, have garnered international attention, with reports of a Red Notice havingbeen issued byInterpol in April 2017.1\n\n### GUO'S DUPLICITY AND RETALIATION\n\n52. As noted above, Guo fled the PRC to avoid answering for his crimes.\n\n53. Since that time, he has made numerous efforts to \"buy\" his way back into his home country in a way that would allow him to avoid jail time -- including but not limited to letters written to the Chinese government that beg for a homecoming and which pledge allegiance to the PRC.\n\n54. Always one to hedge his bets, however, simultaneously Guo has unleashed a series of schemes designed to afford him respite in the United States.\n\n55. Chief among these schemes was Guo's decision to develop a fan base cultivated by attacks, perpetrated over social media, on the PRC, the press agents that have reported on his \"business practices\" in China, and anyone else, including Plaintiffs, who he believes (rightly or\n\nA \"Red Notice\" is defined by Interpol as \"a request to locate and provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition.\"\n\nwrongly) might have information which could negatively influence his ability to remain safely ensconced on his billionaire perch in New York City.\n\n56. Notably, Guo seems to take particular pleasure in defaming females, primarily by implicating them in sexual acts (that have never taken place) but which would act to embarrass, humiliate and harm their reputations.\n\n57. Guo's misogynist protocol also carries with it the benefit of potential embarrassment to the partners and children of his targets.\n\n58. For example, Guo used his social media accounts to attack Hu Shuli, the founder and Chief Executive of Caixin, a former Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, and a wellrespected journalist.\n\n59. In particular, Guo indicated that Ms. Hu engaged in \"sex [abuse] games\" with various Chinese officials. Ms. Hu has denied any such sexual activity or relationship, and her defamation suit (in which Caixin is a co-Plaintiff) is pending before this Court. See Caixin Media CompanyLtd , et al. v. Wengui, Index. No. 652154-2017 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty. 2017).\n\n60. Similarly, Guo has targeted Huang Yan, a female Chinese government official. By Ms. Huang's defamation claim (which is also pending in this Court), Guo is accused of egregious misstatements about her sex life, including but not limited to claims that she attained her position by engaging in sexual favors. See Huang Yan v. Wengui, Index No. 156552/2017 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty. 2017).\n\n61. Regrettably, this is just a small sample of those targeted by Guo's infatuation with female sexuality. Others victimized include Fan Bingbing, Xu Qing, Gao Yanyan, Li Bingbing, Lin ZhilingDong Qing, Li Sisi, Mei Tong, Wanf Fang, Shu Xiaoquing, Zeng Chang, and (as described more fully below), Plaintiff Yang Lan.\n\n# **FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/16/2018 09:51 AM** INDEX NO. 152123/2018 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 15 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 07/16/2018 Case 22-50073 Doc 477-1 Filed 06/20/22 Entered 06/20/22 21:12:25 Page 11 of 21\n\n### GUO TARGETS PLAINTIFFS\n\n62. Commencing in 2017, Guo began targeting Plaintiffs.\n\n#### A.Guo's Defamatory Statements About Plaintiff Yang Lan\n\nwomen' 63. Plaintiff Yang Lan is a household name in China and a leading broadcast journalist and media entrepreneur devoted to promoting general equality and women's professional development.\n\n64. For example, Plaintiff Yang Lan created a talk show called \"Yang Lan Studio,\" now named \"Yang Lan One on One,\" which has become China's longest-running in-depth talk show, with more than 900 interviews with leaders from around the world.\n\nwomen' 65. Plaintiff Yang Lan also created \"Her Village,\" a television show geared towards a Chinese urban female audience, which seeks to promote gender equality and women's professional development through online and off-line educational programs.\n\n66. For reasons that remain unclear, Guo believes Plaintiff Yang Lan is a threat to his political asylum application and his continued stayhere in the United States.\n\n67. Accordingly, Guo has sought to tarnish Plaintiff Yang Lan's reputation as a successful female media entrepreneur and role model to women in China by publishing sexfocused defamatory statements about Plaintiff Yang Lan. This is Guo's modus operandi.\n\n68. For example, on September 15, 2017, Guo published a video recording of himself to his \"\\$[¤C\\$1\" YouTube account wherein Guo stated that Plaintiff Yang Lan (a) maintained many \"lovers\" and engaged in an extra marital affair with \"her sexual Xinjiang boyfriend,\" (b) \"used genitals to build this powerful relation of law and order\" and had extra marital affairs with Meng Jianzhu and Sun Lijun in exchange for the privilege of \"presid[ing] over major national events,\" (c) had extra marital affairs with \"sexually perverted\" government officials \"which led\n\nto her uterine cancer,\" and (d) \"secretly had surgery on her uterine cancer in Beijing Concord Hospital.\"\n\n69. This video has been viewed over 296,220 times since Guo published it and is still available for viewing on YouTube.\n\n70. On September 16, 2017, Guo stated in a live-streamed YouTube video that (a) \"Yang Lan's Sun TV is for money-laundering and money scam\" and (b) \"Yang Lan deceived people by helping the great afforestation.\"\n\n71. This video has been viewed over 380,499 times and is still available for viewing on Youtube.\n\n72. On September 19, 2017, Guo stated in a live-streamed YouTube interview with Chen Xiaoping on Youtube user Mingjing Huopai's account2 account that Plaintiff Yang Lan (a) has \"serious sexually transmitted diseases,\" (b) is \"full of [sexually transmitted] diseases,\" (c) \"sleeps with men who suffer[] from skin diseases,\" (d) had an extra marital affair with \"Meng Jianzhu\" which was filmed and \"will shock everyone,\" (e) \"has infectious and erosive uterine cancer,\" (f) has engaged in numerous extra marital affairs, and (g) \"asks [her husband] to take her to sleepwith men from home and abroad.\"\n\n73. The video of this interview has been viewed at least 385,459 times and is still available for viewing on YouTube.\n\n74. These statements are entirely false and defamatory.\n\n75. Guo was aware of the falsity of these statements at the time that he made them, or at the least, he has made these statements with reckless disregard for their falsity.\n\n#### B. Guo's Defamatory Statements About Plaintiff Zheng Wu\n\n2 YouTube user Mingjing Huopai has approximately 130,545 subscribers.\n\n76. Guo also believes that Plaintiff Zheng Wu is a threat to his political asylum application and his continued stay here in the United States. Accordingly, Guo has sought to tarnish Plaintiff Zheng Wu's reputation largely by falsely accusing Plaintiff Zheng Wu of horrific crimes and heinous acts against children.\n\n77. For example, on September 15, 2017, Guo published a video recording of himself to his \"\\$ͤCM\" YouTube account wherein Guo stated that Plaintiff Zheng Wu (a) \"came to the United States to find all those who may be close to [Guo] and those who know [Guo]\" and then \"wanted to pay to have [Guo] killed,\" (b) kidnapped Fu Zhenghua, (c) \"is a typical Chinese trained spy,\" (d) tried to bribe Guo's attorney with \"\\$10 million to fight against Guo,\" (e) sought tohire \"mafia killers\" to kill Guo, (f) \"continue[s] to hire to murder\" in New York, and (g) \"participated in [the] killing of Lei Yang\" (a 29 year-old Chinese environmentalist who died while in police custody), (h) hired Li Dong \"to eliminate all people who were aware of' money that Guo purports Plaintiff Zheng Wu received \"overseas as the political stability fee,\" (i) has fathered \"illegitimate children abroad,\" and (j) is a \"gangster[].\"\n\n78. This video has been viewed over 296,220 times since Guo published it and is still available for viewingon YouTube.\n\n79. On September 16, 2017, Guo stated in a live-streamed YouTube video that \"Wu Zheng's academic credentials are fabricated.\"\n\n80. This video has been viewed over 380,499 times and is still available for viewing on Youtube.\n\n81. On September 19, 2017, Guo stated in a live-streamed YouTube interview with Chen Xiaoping on Youtube user Mingjing Huopai's account that Plaintiff Zheng Wu (a) participated in the murder of Lei Yang, (b) participated in a criminal conspiracy involving the\n\n# **FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/16/2018 09:51 AM** INDEX NO. 152123/2018 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 15 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 07/16/2018 Case 22-50073 Doc 477-1 Filed 06/20/22 Entered 06/20/22 21:12:25 Page 14 of 21\n\nraping of children, (c) asked his wife, Plaintiff Yang Lan, \"to sleep with [a British] foreigner while he watched the door,\" (d) used his wife as a \"sex tool\" and took his wife \"time and time again\" to sleepwith foreign officials, and (e) \"is a trained spy of Shanghai.\"\n\n82. The video of this interview has been viewed at least 385,459 times and is still available for viewingon YouTube.\n\n83. These statements are entirelyfalse and defamatory.\n\n84. Guo was aware of the falsity of these statements at the time that he made them, or at the least, he has made these statements with reckless disregard for their falsity.\n\n85. For example, approximately one-third of the way into the September 19, 2017 live-streamed YouTube interview, Chen Xiaoping cautioned Guo that Plaintiff Zheng Wu \"will sue [Guo]\" if Guo continued with his defamatory statements about Plaintiff Zheng Wu. Guo responded by saying \"[d]on't worry, I especially welcome him to sue me,\" and then continued makingdefamatorystatements about Plaintiffs.\n\n86. Thereafter, on May 9, 2018, Guo made the following posting on Guomedia.com: \"Dear comrades: Wu Zheng has been in New York for a week! He is telling the story about his grandfather saving tens of thousands of Jews again! And continue to develop his espionage network! Continue to Lan-Jin-Huang (blue-gold-yellow) the United States! And attend his family member's graduation! After meeting his lover in London, Miss Nana...... he came to New York again! What's the purpose of opening the club......I will send the photos of the video screenshots to Ms. YangLan! Everythinghas just begun\".\n\n87. \"Blue-gold-yellow\" is a term Guo uses to describe the PRC's tactics to target individuals - through bribes, blackmail and other nefarious means - and to coerce them to work for the PRC government.\n\n88. These statements, including the multiple statements that Plaintiff Wu is a spy and that Plaintiff Wu is an adulterer,are entirelyfalse and defamatory.\n\n89. Guo was aware of the falsity of these statements at the time that he made them, or at the least, he has made these statements with reckless disregard for their falsity.\n\n90. Moreover, this posting also reveals that Guo, either personally or in conspiracy with other third parties, was secretly following and monitoring Plaintiffs' activities in New York, including making specific references to Plaintiffs' personal family affairs.\n\n### GUO'S THREATS OF VIOLENCE\n\n91. In addition to the foregoing, Guo has taken to implicitly threatening or directly encouragingviolence as against Plaintiffs.\n\n92. For example, in the September 19, 2017 live-streamed YouTube interview with Chen Xiaoping, Guo suggested that Plaintiff Yang Lan will \"not be able to live a long life,\" and that she may \"disappear at any time.\"\n\n93. In the same breath, Guo also stated that Plaintiff Zheng Wu \"may be killed at any time as he did too many bad things, he may get into a car accident or die of disease at any time, both are possible.\"\n\n94. As to when such harm might befall either of the Plaintiffs, Guo went on to state: \"[r]ight now, [I] cannot give any specific details.\"\n\n#### GUO ESCALATES THE CAMPAIGN TO INTIMIDATE PLAINTIFFS AFTER INSTITUTION OF THIS CASE\n\n95. This action was commenced against Guo in March 2018.\n\n96. However, far from curtailing his activity as a result of that filing, Guo has gotten more desperate and engaged in further, more drastic acts of threatened violence, intimidation and stalking.\n\n97. In a new twist, and in an escalation of his intimidation campaign, Guo enlisted third parties, including his son Guo Mileson (\"Mileson\"), into his plot to physically intimidate and silence Plaintiffs.\n\n98. Specifically, on or about April 6, 2018, Plaintiffs and their family were dining at a restaurant named Estiatorio Milos in London, U.K.\n\n99. In a deliberate attempt to intimidate Plaintiffs, Mileson and a cohort of threatening bodyguards, at the instance and direction of Defendant Guo, secured four tables surrounding Plaintiffs, their family and their dining companions.\n\n100. Then, while Plaintiffs, their family were dining, Mileson took photographs of Plaintiff ZhengWu,his familyand his diningcompanions.\n\n101. Thereafter, Defendant Guo posted these photographs of Plaintiffs and their family and dining companions eating dinner.\n\n102. The circumstances under which Mileson and his cohorts surrounded Plaintiffs and took these photographs demonstrate that Defendant Guo, or third parties on his behalf, had engaged in some manner of surveillance of and/or eavesdropping on Plaintiffs.\n\n103. Specifically, Plaintiffs' reservation at Estiatorio Milos was under the name of a third party, not either of the Plaintiffs.\n\n104. Moreover, the identity of the party that made the reservation was only known by Plaintiffs and their other diningcompanions.\n\n105. In fact, the identity of the person making the reservation was not even known to the restaurant itself until approximately 3 hours prior to Plaintiffs' seating.\n\n106. Accordingly, this information must have been was ascertained though some form of eavesdropping or other invasive and threatening monitoring of Plaintiffs, either physically or electronically.\n\n107. In addition to this conduct in London, as noted above, Guo's May 9, 2018 posting demonstrates that Guo, either himself or through others, was surveilling Plaintiffs during their trip to New York.\n\n108. Directly as a result of this conduct directed by Guo, Plaintiffs have suffered severe emotional distress, shame, anxiety, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and other non-pecuniary losses as set forth hereinabove.\n\n### FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION\n\n### (Defamation Per Se)\n\n109. Plaintiffs incorporate by reference all preceding and succeeding paragraphs of this Complaint.\n\n110. Through speech, postings to social media accounts and websites, and various other writings, Guo has falsely and with malice repeatedly defamed Plaintiffs, including but not limited to statements meant to convey (i) that Plaintiffs have and continue to engage in outrageous acts of criminality, such as murder and the raping of children, (ii) that Plaintiff Yang Lan has sexually transmitted diseases, and (iii) that Plaintiff Yang Lan engaged in extra marital affairs to advance her career.\n\n111. These statements have damaged Plaintiffs' reputations among a large number of people, and have caused them to associate Plaintiffs with sexual depravity, promiscuity, and criminal behavior.\n\n112. Guo knows these statements are false, or has at least acted with reckless disregard as to the truth of such statements.\n\n113. Guo made these statements with the intent of maliciously damaging Plaintiffs and their reputations, harming their business interests and to induce others to not do business with them.\n\n114. Guo had neither the authorization nor the privilege to make such statements.\n\n### SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION\n\n## (Defamation)\n\n115. Plaintiffs incorporate by reference all preceding and succeeding paragraphs of this Complaint.\n\n116. Through speech, postings to social media accounts and websites, and various other writings, Guo has falsely and with malice repeatedly defamed Plaintiffs, including but not limited to statements meant to convey (i) that Plaintiffs have and continue to engage in outrageous acts of criminality, such as murder and the raping of children, (ii) that Plaintiff Yang Lan has sexually transmitted diseases, and (iii) that Plaintiff Yang Lan engaged in extra marital affairs to advance her career.\n\n117. These statements have damaged Plaintiffs' reputations among a large number of people, and have caused them to associate Plaintiffs with sexual depravity, promiscuity, and criminal behavior.\n\n118. Guo knows these statements are false, or has at least acted with reckless disregard as to the truth of such statements.\n\n119. Guo made these statements with the intent of damaging Plaintiffs and their reputations, harming their business interests and to induce others to not do business with them. 120. Guo had neither the authorization nor the privilege to make such statements.\n\n121. Plaintiffs have suffered harm as a result of Defendant's conduct, in a monetary amounttobedeterminedattrial.\n\n### THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION\n\n(Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress)\n\n122. Guo made these statements, as well as the others identified above, with the intent tocause severe emotional distress to Plaintiffs, or at the least, he has made these statements while recklessly disregarding the substantial likelihood that they would cause Plaintiffs emotional distress.\n\n123. Moreover, Guo has engaged third parties, including his own son Mileson, to follow Plaintiffs and/or to electronically and/or physically surveil them on his behalf.\n\n124. Directly as a result of this conduct directed by Guo, Plaintiffs have suffered severe emotional distress, shame, anxiety, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and other non-pecuniary losses as set forth hereinabove.\n\n125. Directly because of the false and outrageous statements publicized as discussed above, Plaintiffs have experienced emotional distress, shame, repeated bouts of anxiety, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life and other non-pecuniary losses.\n\n### FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION\n\n### (Conspiracy to Intentionally Inflict Emotional Distress)\n\n126. Plaintiffs incorporate herein by reference all preceding and succeeding paragraphs as if fully set forth herein at length.\n\n127. As set forth hereinabove, Guo has engaged in a scheme to harass, intimidate and defame Plaintiffs and thereby cause them severe emotional distress.\n\n# **FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/16/2018 09:51 AM** INDEX NO. 152123/2018 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 15 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 07/16/2018 Case 22-50073 Doc 477-1 Filed 06/20/22 Entered 06/20/22 21:12:25 Page 20 of 21\n\n128. Guo has conspired with third parties to facilitate and implement his nefarious scheme, including, but not limited to his son Mileson Guo and unidentified bodyguards.\n\n129. For example, Guo has engaged said third parties, including his own son Mileson Guo, to follow Plaintiffs and/or to electronicallyand/or physicallysurveil them.\n\n130. By directing these third parties to undertake this conduct, and by then publicly posting secretly taken photographs, Guo took overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.\n\n131. As a result of this conspiracy and this conduct, Plaintiffs have suffered severe emotional distress, shame, anxiety, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and other non-pecuniarylosses as set forth hereinabove.\n\n132. As a result, Plaintiffs have been damaged in an amount to be determined at trial. WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs request entry of Judgment in their favor and against\n\nDefendant as follows:\n\n- (i) compensatory and punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial, but no less than \\$10 million;\n- (ii) enjoining Defendant and anyone acting or purporting to act on his behalf from making any of the false and defamatory statements set forth herein, or similarly false and defamatorystatements involvingPlaintiffs;\n\n(iii)punitive damages;\n\n- (iv)the costs and expenses incurred in this action includingattorneys' fees; and\n- (v)such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper.\n\nDated: July 16, 2018\n\nI ARKIN SOLBAKKEN LLP Attorneys fo }|l f n fiff\n\nf3sa C. Solbakken, Esq. Robert C. Angelillo, Esq. 750 Lexington Avenue, 25th Floor New York, New York 10022 Tel: (212) 333-0200 Fax: (212)333-2350","body_zh":"附件 A\n\n提交：纽约县书记官 07/16/2018 09:51 AM　案号：152123/2018　NYSCEF 文件编号：15　NYSCEF 收件：07/16/2018　案件 22-50073　文件 477-1　提交于 06/20/22　录入于 06/20/22 21:12:25　第 2 页，共 21 页\n\n纽约州最高法院纽约县\n\nZHENG WU（吴征），又名 BRUNO WU（布鲁诺·吴），及 YANG LAN（杨澜），\n\n案号：0152123/2018\n\n—诉—\n\n经修订的起诉状\n\nGUO WENGUI（郭文贵），又名 MILES KWOK（郭文贵），　　　　　　　　　指定法官：Hon. Barbara Jaffe（芭芭拉·贾菲法官阁下）\n\n被告。--------------------------------------------------------------XX\n\n原告 Zheng Wu（吴征），又名 Bruno Wu（布鲁诺·吴），及 Yang Lan（杨澜），由其代理律师 Arkin Solbakken LLP（阿金·索尔巴肯律师事务所）代理，作为对被告 Guo Wengui（郭文贵）的起诉，特此陈述如下：\n\n原告，\n\n初步陈述\n\n1. 本案系针对被告 Guo Wengui（“Guo”）提起。Guo 系包括香港、阿拉伯联合酋长国和马耳他共和国在内多个国家的公民；其在被指控并被判定实施多种刑事行为后，逃往美国，希望凭借其极端财富购买仅为此类人士保留的非正式庇护。\n\n2. 事实上，尽管有证据将 Guo 与洗钱计划、伪造、贿赂以及人身和性侵害联系起来，Guo 仍得以在美国暂时躲避其犯罪行为；他在那里购买了位于纽约州纽约市第五大道 781 号、声望卓著的 Sherry Netherland（雪莉荷兰酒店）的一套顶层公寓，并以现金支付 $67.5 million。\n\n3. 这处新住所成为其行动基地后，Guo 发起了一场宣传运动，旨在实现其两个目标：掩盖其犯罪行为，并提高其尚待裁决的政治庇护申请获准的可能性。\n\n4. 具体而言，Guo 试图通过在社交媒体上零星发布关于中华人民共和国（People's Republic of China，以下简称“PRC”或“中国”）境内所谓腐败行为和高度戏剧性事件的大量荒谬主张，将自己塑造为一名具有自由主义思想的难民。\n\n5. 借由这些杜撰之词，Guo 将自己推销为“一名利用 YouTube 和 Twitter 为中国的法治、人权、自由和民主而奋斗的先驱”。\n\n6. 但实际上，Guo 只不过是一个不入流的骗子。\n\n7. 他关于政治腐败的“揭露性”主张，不过是针对多名中国和美国公民私生活的廉价诽谤性谎言；Guo 希望将这些人描绘成具有肥皂剧般夸张程度的对手，随后再将这些内容灌输给其数百万“追随者”。\n\n8. Guo 并不揭露“腐败”；相反，他将互联网用作其混乱且犯罪的事业的延伸。\n\n9. 因此，本案最初于 2018 年 3 月通过提交传票和起诉状提起，旨在使 Guo 为其肆意且恶意的诽谤行为承担责任，并赔偿其妄想般努力所伤害的人士。\n\n10. 然而，Guo 并未收敛其活动；相反，针对本案，被告 Guo 实际上加大了其压制原告的企图，并现已与第三方共谋，包括但不限于其亲生儿子 Mileson Guo（郭美）及其他人，以协助其开展一场已成为全球性欺凌和恐吓行动的活动。\n\n11. 因此，现提交本经修订的起诉状，以处理 Guo 持续且不断升级的不当行为；该等行为现已演变为对原告的共谋性攻击。\n\n管辖权和审判地\n\n12. 根据 CPLR 301 和 CPLR 302，本院对 Guo 具有管辖权，因为其系纽约县和纽约州居民，并经常在纽约县和纽约州开展业务。\n\n13. 根据 CPLR 503(a)，审判地适当，因为 Guo 居住于纽约县，并一直从其位于本县的住所积极发布诽谤性言论。\n\n当事人\n\n14. 原告 Zheng Wu 是一名成功的华裔美国投资者、媒体企业家及已出版作者。\n\n15. 原告 Zheng Wu 还担任纽约和洛杉矶 Museum of Television & Radio（电视与广播博物馆）国际董事会成员。\n\n16. 原告 Zheng 持有密苏里州 Culver-Stockton College（卡尔弗—斯托克顿学院）工商管理学士学位、Washington University in St. Louis（圣路易斯华盛顿大学）国际关系硕士学位，以及 Fudan University（复旦大学）国际关系与公共事务学院哲学博士学位（Ph.D.）。\n\n17. 原告 Yang Lan 是中国领先的广播新闻记者和媒体企业家，以关注社会和文化议题而闻名。\n\n18. 原告 Yang Lan 曾获 Forbes（福布斯）评为全球最具影响力的 100 位女性之一。\n\n19. 原告 Yang Lan 持有 Beijing Foreign Studies University（北京外国语大学）英语语言文学学士学位，以及 Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）国际事务硕士学位。\n\n20. 原告已结婚二十三年，并共同居住于中国北京。在婚姻存续期间，原告共同从事了众多商业及慈善事业。\n\n21. 例如，原告于 1999 年通过其前身 Sun Media Group Holdings Limited（阳光媒体集团控股有限公司），共同创立了 Sun Seven Stars Capital Group（阳光七星资本集团，以下简称“Seven Stars”），并将该公司发展为亚洲领先的娱乐、媒体和投资公司之一。\n\n22. Seven Stars 在全球 10 多个主要城市设有业务，每年销售收入达数十亿美元。\n\n23. 原告 Zheng Wu 担任 Seven Stars 的联席董事长兼首席执行官。\n\n24. 原告 Yang Lan 担任 Seven Stars 的联席董事长。\n\n25. 原告还共同支持慈善组织，包括共同创立专注于为弱势儿童提供平等教育机会的 Sun Culture Foundation（阳光文化基金会），以及与 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation（比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会）共同赞助北京“Giving Pledge（捐赠誓言）”活动。\n\n26. 被告 Guo 是一名亿万富翁，其声称通过在中国的各类房地产项目赚取财富，现以“自我放逐”状态居住于纽约市。Guo 已通过庇护申请寻求在美国永久居留，该申请以其为将自己向美国政府塑造为政治难民而提出的荒谬主张为依据。\n\n27. Guo 持有包括香港、阿拉伯联合酋长国和马耳他共和国护照在内的多个国家护照，并使用多个别名，包括 Guo Wen Gui、Guo Haoyun 和 Miles Kwok 等。\n\n28. Guo 还维护并控制多个媒体账户，包括用户名为 @KwokMiles 的 Twitter 账户（约有 494,000 名追随者），以及至少两个 YouTube 账户，用户名分别为 “Miles Kwok”（约有 11,000 名订阅者）和 “$[¤Cÿt”（约有 174,678 名订阅者）。\n\n事实背景\n\n29. 与 Guo 通过媒体操纵培植的受害者形象相反，他现在不是、过去也从未是中华人民共和国的政治犯。\n\n30. 相反，Guo 与刑事司法机关的关系始于其约 18 岁时因欺诈被定罪；其后，他与其他被认定犯有轻微盗窃行为者一道被监禁。\n\n31. Guo 并非如其另行声称的那样，与“亲民主活动人士和政治异见人士”一同被监禁。\n\n32. 在此监禁期间之后，Guo 继而从事日益复杂的金融欺诈活动，策划旨在使其个人获利的庞氏骗局，损害其毫不知情的受害者及其最终背弃的不幸商业“伙伴”。\n\n33. 例如，Guo 从事一系列欺诈性交易，通过使用虚假合同、虚假收据以及对“杠杆”一词的创造性解释，从 Agricultural Bank of China（中国农业银行）骗取数亿美元。\n\n34. Guo 还努力与中国 Ministry of State Security（国家安全部，以下简称“MSS”）的官员合作，并最终开始为其工作；MSS 是中国具有国内和国外管辖权的中央情报机构。\n\n35. 特别是，Guo 与 MSS 领导人 Ma Jian（马建）建立密切关系，导致 Guo 参与多项秘密和非法行为，包括针对中国国民和美国政治领导人的“调查”；Guo 因此从其 MSS 同僚处获得奖章。\n\n36. Guo 的其他关联人现亦与 Ma Jian 一样，因贿赂和滥用权力罪行而受到调查或起诉，其中包括曾任中国河北省政法委员会书记的 Zhang Yue（张越），以及曾任中国共产党反腐败委员会官员的 Meng Huiqing（孟会青）。\n\n37. 但 Guo 的行为并非基于其对任何特定政治理念的信奉；相反，如同 Guo 所从事的一切行为，他试图从其与政府、尤其是与情报和执法机构中腐败官员的关系中获取个人利益。\n\n38. 这包括向其协助调查的人员表示，只要他们将其资产转给 Guo 供其个人使用，他或许可以为他们争取较轻刑罚。\n\n39. Guo 还采取尽可能多的预防措施，以使自己免于为其两面三刀的行为负责；他经常录音或录像记录政府官员、商业同事及熟人与由 Guo 自己雇用并安插的性工作者之间的情形，随后将这些录音录像用作勒索手段。\n\n40. 当中国的政治局势变化时，Guo 的“忠诚”也随之变化。\n\n41. 事实上，Guo 不止一次承诺效忠中华人民共和国，只要其同意接纳他回去，并承诺不对其提起诉讼。\n\n42. 作为换取中华人民共和国特殊待遇的条件，Guo 还：(a) 承诺提供多名身在美国的中国政治异见人士的所在地；(b) 对多名政府人物进行监视和窃听，包括前美国国土安全部长 Jeh Charles Johnson（杰·查尔斯·约翰逊）和前英国首相 Tony Blair（托尼·布莱尔），并因此获得 MSS 奖章；以及 (c) 与多个恐怖组织勾结。\n\n43. Guo 绝非其在纽约市舒适环境中所塑造的反政府斗士；他过去和现在都十分乐意继续充当他现声称憎恨的政府的代理人——只要这对他有利可图。\n\nGUO 被媒体揭露\n\n44. 最终，Guo 不当行为的故事以及与其交往所具有毒性的事实，经由新闻媒体浮出水面。\n\n45. 特别是，Caixin Media Company Ltd（财新传媒有限公司）于 2015 年发表了一篇具有转折意义的揭露报道，牵涉 Guo 参与一项罢免北京市市长的阴谋，以及其实施的其他各种可能不当行为。\n\n46. 同一文章还报道了 Guo 计划拍摄北京市副市长私人性活动的视频；该计划旨在诋毁该市政治领导人，并使 Guo 能够取得北京奥林匹克公园鸟巢体育场附近一处广场的开发权。\n\n47. 至少据一种说法，财新的报道促成了一篇文章，该文章成为中国新闻史上阅读最广泛的文章。\n\n48. 此外，媒体机构于 2017 年 4 月开始报道，前 MSS 领导人 Ma Jian 在 2008 年至 2014 年间滥用职权，监禁、勒索或没收 Guo 商业竞争对手的财产，以换取 Guo 数百万美元的贿赂。\n\n49. 媒体还报道，Guo 向前河北省公安厅厅长 Zhang Yue 支付数百万美元，后者作为回报干预并调查 Guo 的商业竞争对手，使 Guo 得以获得有利的交易条款或排除竞争。\n\n50. 由于这些报道及后续报道，Guo 被推入国际舆论讨论之中。\n\n51. Guo 的犯罪行为也引起国际关注，据报道，Interpol（国际刑警组织）于 2017 年 4 月发布了红色通报。1\n\nGUO 的两面性和报复行为\n\n52. 如上所述，Guo（郭文贵）逃离PRC（中华人民共和国），以逃避为其罪行承担责任。\n\n53. 自那时起，他曾多次试图以“买通”方式重返祖国，并借此避免服刑——包括但不限于致函中国政府，乞求获准回国并承诺效忠中华人民共和国。\n\n54. 然而，Guo一向会为自己留后路，同时策划并实施了一系列旨在使其得以在美国暂避风头的计划。\n\n55. 这些计划中最主要的是，Guo决定通过在社交媒体上攻击中华人民共和国、报道其在中国“商业行为”的新闻工作者，以及其认为（无论该等认为正确与否）可能掌握会对其安然稳居纽约市亿万富翁地位的能力产生不利影响的信息的任何其他人（包括原告），来培养一批追随者。\n\n国际刑警组织将“红色通报”定义为“在等待引渡期间，要求查找并临时逮捕某个人的请求”。\n\n56. 值得注意的是，Guo似乎尤其乐于诽谤女性，主要方式是指称她们参与了从未发生过的性行为，而此类指称会使其感到难堪、受到羞辱并损害其声誉。\n\n57. Guo的厌女手法还带来使其目标的伴侣和子女可能感到难堪的附带效果。\n\n58. 例如，Guo利用其社交媒体账户攻击Hu Shuli（胡舒立），即Caixin（财新）的创始人兼首席执行官、斯坦福大学前Knight Journalism Fellow（奈特新闻学研究员），以及一名备受尊敬的新闻记者。\n\n59. 具体而言，Guo称Hu女士与多名中国官员进行“性[虐待]游戏”。Hu女士否认曾有任何此类性行为或关系，且其诽谤诉讼（Caixin为共同原告）目前正由本院审理。见Caixin Media CompanyLtd , et al. v. Wengui, Index. No. 652154-2017 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty. 2017)。\n\n60. 同样，Guo还针对Huang Yan（黄艳），一名中国女性政府官员。根据Huang女士的诽谤诉请（亦正在本院审理），Guo被指控就其性生活作出极其严重的不实陈述，包括但不限于声称她通过提供性服务获得其职位。见Huang Yan v. Wengui, Index No. 156552/2017 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty. 2017)。\n\n61. 遗憾的是，这仅是Guo对女性性行为痴迷所针对者中的一小部分。其他受害者包括Fan Bingbing（范冰冰）、Xu Qing（许晴）、Gao Yanyan（高燕燕）、Li Bingbing（李冰冰）、Lin Zhiling（林志玲）、Dong Qing（董卿）、Li Sisi（李思思）、Mei Tong（梅桐）、Wanf Fang（万芳）、Shu Xiaoquing（舒小青）、Zeng Chang（曾畅），以及（如下文更详尽所述）原告Yang Lan（杨澜）。\n\n归档：纽约县书记官 07/16/2018 09:51 AM　索引号：152123/2018　NYSCEF文件编号：15　NYSCEF接收时间：07/16/2018　案件22-50073　文件477-1　提交日期06/20/22　登记日期06/20/22 21:12:25　第11页，共21页\n\nGUO针对原告\n\n62. 自2017年起，Guo开始针对原告。\n\nA. Guo关于原告Yang Lan的诽谤性陈述\n\n63. 原告Yang Lan在中国家喻户晓，是一名致力于促进总体平等及女性职业发展的杰出广播新闻记者和媒体企业家。\n\n64. 例如，原告Yang Lan创办了一档名为“Yang Lan Studio”的谈话节目，现名为“Yang Lan One on One”，该节目已成为中国播出时间最长的深度访谈节目，采访过900多位世界各地的领导人。\n\n65. 原告Yang Lan还创办了“Her Village”，这是一档面向中国城市女性观众的电视节目，旨在通过线上和线下教育项目促进性别平等及女性职业发展。\n\n66. 出于至今仍不明的原因，Guo认为原告Yang Lan对其政治庇护申请及其继续留在美国构成威胁。\n\n67. 因此，Guo通过发布针对原告Yang Lan、以性为重点的诽谤性陈述，试图损害原告Yang Lan作为成功女性媒体企业家及中国女性榜样的声誉。这是Guo的一贯做法。\n\n68. 例如，2017年9月15日，Guo将一段其本人录像发布至其“\\$[¤C\\$1”YouTube账户，其中Guo称原告Yang Lan：(a) 有许多“情人”，并与“她的性伴侣新疆男友”有婚外情；(b) “用生殖器建立了这种强大的法治关系”，并与Meng Jianzhu（孟建柱）及Sun Lijun（孙力军）发生婚外情，以换取“主持重大国家活动”的特权；(c) 与“性变态”的政府官员发生婚外情，“导致其患上子宫癌”；以及(d) “秘密在北京协和医院接受子宫癌手术”。\n\n69. 该视频自Guo发布以来已被观看超过296,220次，且目前仍可在YouTube上观看。\n\n70. 2017年9月16日，Guo在一段YouTube直播视频中称：(a) “Yang Lan的Sun TV是用于洗钱和金钱骗局的”；以及(b) “Yang Lan通过帮助大规模植树造林来欺骗人们”。\n\n71. 该视频已被观看超过380,499次，且目前仍可在YouTube上观看。\n\n72. 2017年9月19日，Guo在YouTube用户Mingjing Huopai（明镜火拍）账户上的一场与Chen Xiaoping（陈小平）进行的YouTube直播访谈中称，原告Yang Lan：(a) 患有“严重性传播疾病”；(b) “浑身都是[性传播]疾病”；(c) “与患有皮肤病的男子发生性关系”；(d) 与“Meng Jianzhu”有婚外情，该行为已被拍摄下来且“将震惊所有人”；(e) 患有“传染性和侵蚀性子宫癌”；(f) 有过多次婚外情；以及(g) “要求[其丈夫]带她与国内外男子发生性关系”。\n\n73. 该访谈视频已被观看至少385,459次，且目前仍可在YouTube上观看。\n\n74. 这些陈述完全虚假且构成诽谤。\n\n75. Guo在作出这些陈述时明知其虚假，或者至少是在罔顾其虚假性的情况下作出这些陈述。\n\nB. Guo关于原告Zheng Wu的诽谤性陈述\n\n2 YouTube用户Mingjing Huopai约有130,545名订阅者。\n\n76. Guo还认为原告Zheng Wu（吴征）对其政治庇护申请及其继续留在美国构成威胁。因此，Guo试图损害原告Zheng Wu的声誉，主要方式是虚假指控原告Zheng Wu犯下可怕罪行及针对儿童的恶劣行为。\n\n77. 例如，2017年9月15日，Guo将一段其本人录像发布至其“\\$ͤCM”YouTube账户，其中Guo称原告Zheng Wu：(a) “来到美国寻找所有可能与[Guo]关系密切的人以及认识[Guo]的人”，随后“想出钱杀害[Guo]”；(b) 绑架了Fu Zhenghua（傅政华）；(c) “是一个典型的中国培养的间谍”；(d) 试图以“\\$10 million来对抗Guo”贿赂Guo的律师；(e) 试图雇用“黑手党杀手”杀害Guo；(f) 在纽约“继续雇人谋杀”；以及(g) “参与了[对]Lei Yang（雷洋）的杀害”（Lei Yang是一名29岁的中国环保人士，在被警方拘留期间死亡）；(h) 雇用Li Dong（李东）“消灭所有知晓”Guo声称原告Zheng Wu“以政治稳定费名义在海外”收取资金一事的人；(i) 在“海外生有非婚生子女”；以及(j) 是一名“黑帮分子”。\n\n78. 该视频自Guo发布以来已被观看超过296,220次，且目前仍可在YouTube上观看。\n\n79. 2017年9月16日，Guo在一段YouTube直播视频中称：“Wu Zheng的学历是伪造的。”\n\n80. 该视频已被观看超过380,499次，且目前仍可在YouTube上观看。\n\n81. 2017年9月19日，Guo在YouTube用户Mingjing Huopai账户上的一场与Chen Xiaoping进行的YouTube直播访谈中称，原告Zheng Wu：(a) 参与谋杀Lei Yang；(b) 参与涉及强奸儿童的犯罪共谋；(c) 要求其妻子、原告Yang Lan“与一名[英国]外国人发生性关系，而他在门口望风”；(d) 将其妻子当作“性工具”，并“一次又一次”带其妻子与外国官员发生性关系；以及(e) “是上海培养的间谍”。\n\n归档：纽约县书记官 07/16/2018 09:51 AM　索引号：152123/2018　NYSCEF文件编号：15　NYSCEF接收时间：07/16/2018　案件22-50073　文件477-1　提交日期06/20/22　登记日期06/20/22 21:12:25　第14页，共21页\n\n82. 该访谈视频已被观看至少385,459次，且目前仍可在YouTube上观看。\n\n83. 这些陈述完全虚假且构成诽谤。\n\n84. Guo在作出这些陈述时明知其虚假，或者至少是在罔顾其虚假性的情况下作出这些陈述。\n\n85. 例如，在2017年9月19日YouTube直播访谈进行约三分之一时，Chen Xiaoping警告Guo，如果Guo继续作出有关原告Zheng Wu的诽谤性陈述，原告Zheng Wu“将起诉[Guo]”。Guo回应称：“别担心，我尤其欢迎他起诉我”，随后继续作出有关原告的诽谤性陈述。\n\n86. 此后，于2018年5月9日，Guo在Guomedia.com上发布如下内容：“亲爱的同志们：Wu Zheng已经在纽约待了一周！他又在讲他祖父拯救数万名犹太人的故事！并继续发展他的间谍网络！继续对美国实行蓝金黄！并参加其家属的毕业典礼！在伦敦会见其情人Nana小姐之后……他又来到纽约！开俱乐部的目的是什么……我将把视频截图照片发给YangLan女士！一切才刚刚开始”。\n\n87. “蓝金黄”是Guo用以描述中华人民共和国针对个人的策略的术语——通过贿赂、勒索及其他不法手段——胁迫其为中华人民共和国政府工作。\n\n88. 这些陈述，包括原告Wu是间谍及原告Wu是通奸者的多项陈述，完全虚假且构成诽谤。\n\n89. Guo在作出这些陈述时明知其虚假，或者至少是在罔顾其虚假性的情况下作出这些陈述。\n\n90. 此外，该帖文还表明，Guo本人或其与其他第三方共谋，曾秘密跟踪和监视原告在纽约的活动，包括具体提及原告的个人家庭事务。\n\nGUO的暴力威胁\n\n91. 除上述行为外，Guo还开始对原告作出暗示性威胁，或者直接鼓励针对原告的暴力行为。\n\n92. 例如，在2017年9月19日与Chen Xiaoping进行的YouTube直播访谈中，Guo暗示原告Yang Lan将“无法长寿”，且她可能“随时消失”。\n\n93. 同时，Guo还称原告Zheng Wu“可能随时被杀，因为他做了太多坏事，他可能随时遭遇车祸或病死，两种情况都有可能”。\n\n94. 至于任何一名原告何时可能遭受此类伤害，Guo接着称：“现在，[我]不能提供任何具体细节。”\n\nGUO在本案提起后升级其恐吓原告的行动\n\n95. 本案于2018年3月对Guo提起。\n\n96. 然而，Guo非但没有因该项提交而收敛其行为，反而变得更加不顾一切，并实施了进一步、更为严重的暴力威胁、恐吓及跟踪行为。\n\n97. 在新的变化中，并作为其恐吓行动的升级，Guo将包括其子Guo Mileson（Mileson）在内的第三方纳入其计划，以对原告实施人身恐吓并使其噤声。\n\n98. 具体而言，于2018年4月6日前后，原告及其家人在英国伦敦一家名为 Estiatorio Milos 的餐厅用餐。\n\n99. 为蓄意恐吓原告，被告 Guo（郭文贵）指使并命令 Mileson（郭强）及一群具有威胁性的保镖，在原告、其家人及其同席用餐者周围占据四张餐桌。\n\n100. 随后，在原告及其家人用餐期间，Mileson 拍摄了原告 ZhengWu（郑武）、其家人及其同席用餐者的照片。\n\n101. 此后，被告郭文贵发布了这些原告、其家人及同席用餐者正在用晚餐的照片。\n\n102. Mileson 及其同伙包围原告并拍摄这些照片的情形表明，被告郭文贵或代表其行事的第三方以某种方式对原告进行了监视和/或窃听。\n\n103. 具体而言，原告在 Estiatorio Milos 的预订登记使用的是第三方姓名，而非任一原告的姓名。\n\n104. 此外，作出该预订者的身份仅为原告及其其他同席用餐者所知。\n\n105. 事实上，直至原告入座前约3小时，甚至连该餐厅本身也不知道作出预订者的身份。\n\n106. 因此，该信息必定是通过某种形式的窃听，或对原告进行的其他具有侵扰性和威胁性的实体或电子监控而获取的。\n\n107. 除上述在伦敦的行为外，如上所述，郭文贵于2018年5月9日发布的帖子表明，郭文贵本人或通过他人在原告前往纽约期间对其进行了监视。\n\n108. 作为郭文贵指使的该等行为的直接结果，原告遭受了严重精神痛苦、羞耻、焦虑、情感痛苦、痛苦、不便、精神折磨、丧失生活乐趣以及上述其他非财产性损失。\n\n第一项诉因\n（当然诽谤）\n\n109. 原告通过援引方式纳入本起诉状此前及此后的全部段落。\n\n110. 郭文贵通过言论、在社交媒体账户和网站上发布内容以及各种其他书面材料，反复恶意作出虚假诽谤原告的行为，包括但不限于意在传达以下内容的陈述：（i）原告曾经并持续从事骇人听闻的犯罪行为，例如谋杀及强奸儿童；（ii）原告 Yang Lan（杨澜）患有性传播疾病；以及（iii）原告杨澜曾为推进其职业生涯而从事婚外情。\n\n111. 这些陈述损害了原告在大量人士中的声誉，并使其将原告与性堕落、滥交和犯罪行为联系起来。\n\n112. 郭文贵知道这些陈述是虚假的，或者至少对该等陈述的真实性采取了鲁莽漠视的态度。\n\n113. 郭文贵作出这些陈述，意图恶意损害原告及其声誉，损害其商业利益，并诱使他人不与其开展业务。\n\n114. 郭文贵既未获授权，亦不享有作出该等陈述的特权。\n\n第二项诉因\n（诽谤）\n\n115. 原告通过援引方式纳入本起诉状此前及此后的全部段落。\n\n116. 郭文贵通过言论、在社交媒体账户和网站上发布内容以及各种其他书面材料，反复恶意作出虚假诽谤原告的行为，包括但不限于意在传达以下内容的陈述：（i）原告曾经并持续从事骇人听闻的犯罪行为，例如谋杀及强奸儿童；（ii）原告杨澜患有性传播疾病；以及（iii）原告杨澜曾为推进其职业生涯而从事婚外情。\n\n117. 这些陈述损害了原告在大量人士中的声誉，并使其将原告与性堕落、滥交和犯罪行为联系起来。\n\n118. 郭文贵知道这些陈述是虚假的，或者至少对该等陈述的真实性采取了鲁莽漠视的态度。\n\n119. 郭文贵作出这些陈述，意图损害原告及其声誉，损害其商业利益，并诱使他人不与其开展业务。\n\n120. 郭文贵既未获授权，亦不享有作出该等陈述的特权。\n\n121. 原告因被告的行为遭受损害，具体金钱数额将在审判中确定。\n\n第三项诉因\n\n（故意施加精神痛苦）\n\n122. 郭文贵作出这些陈述以及上文所列其他陈述，意图对原告造成严重精神痛苦；或者至少，其作出这些陈述时，鲁莽地漠视了该等陈述极有可能对原告造成精神痛苦。\n\n123. 此外，郭文贵委托第三方，包括其亲生儿子 Mileson，对原告进行跟踪和/或代表其对原告实施电子和/或实体监视。\n\n124. 作为郭文贵指使的该等行为的直接结果，原告遭受了严重精神痛苦、羞耻、焦虑、情感痛苦、痛苦、不便、精神折磨、丧失生活乐趣以及上述其他非财产性损失。\n\n125. 由于如上所述被公开传播的虚假且骇人听闻的陈述，原告经历了精神痛苦、羞耻、反复发作的焦虑、不便、精神折磨、丧失生活乐趣及其他非财产性损失。\n\n第四项诉因\n（共谋故意施加精神痛苦）\n\n126. 原告通过援引方式将此前及此后的全部段落纳入本文，如同在本文中完整详细列明。\n\n127. 如上所述，郭文贵实施了一项骚扰、恐吓和诽谤原告并由此对其造成严重精神痛苦的计划。\n\n已提交：NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 07/16/2018 09:51 AM　索引号：152123/2018　NYSCEF 文件编号：15　NYSCEF 收到日期：07/16/2018　案件 22-50073　文件 477-1　提交日期 06/20/22　录入日期 06/20/22 21:12:25　第20页，共21页\n\n128. 郭文贵与第三方共谋，以协助并实施其邪恶计划，包括但不限于其儿子 Mileson Guo（郭强）及身份不明的保镖。\n\n129. 例如，郭文贵委托所述第三方，包括其亲生儿子 Mileson Guo，对原告进行跟踪和/或对其实施电子和/或实体监视。\n\n130. 郭文贵指示这些第三方实施该等行为，继而公开发布秘密拍摄的照片，从而实施了推进该共谋的公开行为。\n\n131. 由于该共谋及该等行为，原告遭受了严重精神痛苦、羞耻、焦虑、情感痛苦、痛苦、不便、精神折磨、丧失生活乐趣以及上述其他非财产性损失。\n\n132. 因此，原告遭受了损害，具体数额将在审判中确定。为此，原告请求作出有利于原告并针对被告的判决如下：\n\n（i）在审判中确定数额的补偿性损害赔偿和惩罚性损害赔偿，但不少于$10 million；\n\n（ii）禁止被告及任何代表其行事或声称代表其行事之人作出本文所述任何虚假及诽谤性陈述，或作出涉及原告的类似虚假及诽谤性陈述；\n\n（iii）惩罚性损害赔偿；\n\n（iv）本案产生的费用和支出，包括律师费；以及\n\n（v）法院认为公正和适当的其他及进一步救济。\n\n日期：July 16, 2018\n\nLARKIN SOLBAKKEN LLP　原告代理律师\n\nLisa C. Solbakken, Esq.　Robert C. Angelillo, Esq.　750 Lexington Avenue, 25th Floor　New York, New York 10022　电话：(212) 333-0200　传真：(212)333-2350","key_entities":["Guo","MSS","CIPA","Kwok","Je"],"ecf_references":[],"word_count":5003,"status":"published","published_at":"2022-06-20 00:00:00","created_at":"2022-06-20","updated_at":"2026-08-23 18:46:16"}