01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Pop star Leslie Cheung dies in fall from Hong Kong hotel in 2003 – from the SCMP archive
These articles were first published on April 2, 2003
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by Tommy Lewis and Niki Law
Pop star, actor and director Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing plunged to his death from the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Central in an apparent suicide last night.
Cheung, 46 - star of the hit 1993 movie Farewell My Concubine - fell from the 24th floor window of the hotel and was found lying in Connaught Road at 6.41pm.
He was rushed to the Queen Mary Hospital where he was certified dead on arrival.
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Police found a suicide note, his driver's licence, two credit cards, a car key and a few thousand dollars on his body.
