Yammie Lam

Sexual assault incident

In December 2013, Next Magazine obtained the video of an interview with Lam where she said that she had been raped by two Hong Kong entertainment industry "big brothers". Lam stated that the first man had raped her after consuming alcohol, that the incident happened around 20 to 30 years ago, and that this man had passed away recently. Lam claims that another man raped her during a film production in Singapore by obtaining a key to her room, breaking in at night, and raping her. She claims that fears about his influence in the film industry has dissuaded her from reporting the incident to the Singaporean police. The interviewer had mentioned the names of the two accused men during the interview, and Lam acknowledged the names to be correct, but the audio portions were censored out of Next Magazine's published video; it is unknown if the edits were made by the magazine or by the original interviewer. ^[2][3] Subsequently, an anonymous source cited on Sina News corroborates the alleged rape in Singapore and claimed that the important man had announced, to the film crew, his intention of "having fun" with Lam before he allegedly broke into her room.^[4]

In January 2018, a mainland Chinese journalist uploaded what appeared to be the uncensored video of Yammie Lam's interview. The audio revealed the alleged rapists to be Eric Tsang and Alan Tang (deceased in 2011).^[5] A day after the release of the video, the rape accusation against Eric Tsang was corroborated by Grace Han, a prominent talent agent who formerly headed the Ford Models agency in Asia. Han further alleged that Eric Tsang was a serial sexual predator, and claims to know of a specific incident where a group of showbiz men led by Tsang allegedly drugged seven female models in a Hong Kong karaoke bar and raped six of them, while one model escaped. Eric Tsang denied both the authenticity of the video and Grace Han's claims, and a week later, Tsang filed a defamation law suit at the Hong Kong High Court and threatened to "punish" the accusers. ^[6][7]

Several media outlets have raised concerns that the audio portion of the 2018 video could have been edited, nothing that the interviewer's voice has increased in pitch from a male-sounding individual in the 2013 video to a female-sounding individual in the 2018 video. However, experts have suggested that the most likely explanation was that the published 2013 video was digitally altered to disguise the identity of the interviewer, and that the interviewer is in fact female. They also point out that the 2018 video contained unremoved backgrounds noises, indicating that it was either the original video or in an earlier state of edit compared to the 2013 video, which had noise cancellation. This implies that the leaker has access to the original unedited video, and the most probable leaker is the interviewer herself.^[8][9]