Gigi makes heartfelt plea to tycoon dad

The gay daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon who offered more than HK$1 billion (S$164 million) for a male suitor has issued a heartfelt open letter urging him to accept her sexuality.

In the letter, socialite Gigi Chao asked her father Cecil to treat her partner Sean Eav (right) as "a normal, dignified human being".

The pair have been together for nine years and are reported to have married in 2012 in France, AFP reported.

"I know it's difficult for you to understand how I could feel romantically attracted to a woman; I suppose I can't really explain it either.

It just happens, peacefully and gently," she wrote in the letter, which was published in the South China Morning Post yesterday.

The 33-year-old said she forgave her father because he was acting in her best interests, and took responsibility for "misleading" him into thinking there might be other options for her.

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