NEW YORK: A wealthy Manhattan real estate broker claims his Chinese wife turned tricks in their apartment and used his money to buy a Hong Kong brothel.
John Ackerman, 48, and Annie Yau, 30, married in 2001, two months after meeting in Hong Kong. Her friends later told him Yau married him only to get an immigration green card, the New York Daily News reported.
Ackerman set up his wife in the Annie Yau Gallery on the upper West Side, but said the relationship quickly soured.
In court papers, he claimed his wife "engaged in prostitution" in the "marital home" from 2002 to April 2004 while he was at work.
Yau also used $1 million of Ackerman's money to buy an apartment, buy cheap antiques and "to invest in or purchase" a brothel in Hong Kong, the papers state.
Ackerman said Annie Yau taught their 4-year-old son to address him in what he thought were Chinese endearments. He found out later the boy was saying "f--- jerk" and telling him, "You are stupid because your wife is sleeping with other men."
