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Model Ngoc Thuy. Photo by Milor Tran |
He sent a letter to the court demanding the removal of 13 of 39 assets from a list he had submitted, including five villas in the coastal town of Phan Thiet, seven automobiles and a motorcycle, citing that Thuy had sold those assets and “it may take longer for the court to verify” as his reason.
He has now added other assets at his request.
He wants Thuy to return an additional VND67.8 billion she has earned over the years from “renting out nine of her luxury apartments in District 1 from HCMC”.
He also added 422 million VND and 447,000 USD which are in three bank accounts he had asked Thuy to open in his name.
He rejected her request that any properties acquired after their marriage be divided equally between them.
Calling it ‘baseless’, he said he was claiming ‘properties bought with his money’ and wants them transferred to the company operated by him and Thuy so their two daughters can get them when they turn 18 years.
“If the investigative process is taking too long, I want the HCMC People’s Court to end the trial and return a verdict consistent with what the California Superior Court has adopted,” he said in his letter. to the court.
An, 61, and Thuy, 43, married in September 2006 after only a week of knowing each other.
They divorced in March 2008.
An filed a lawsuit in the HCMC People’s Court, claiming Thuy failed to return 39 Vietnam-based assets he bought with “money he earned before marriage” in 2010.
As a foreigner, he “had to register the properties in the name of Thuy”.
The California Superior Court in his native United States had ruled that Thuy should return the properties to him because they “had been bought with his money. [and not related to Thuy].”
It took the HCMC People’s Court 13 years to hear the case as it “had to obtain documents related to the properties in dispute”.
He is due to rule on the dispute on August 18. Thuy was once a famous model and actress nicknamed the “Marilyn Monroe of Vietnam”.
She retired when she married An. In 2016, she remarried a lawyer named Truong.
