{{Short description|Hong Kong businesswoman (born 1962)}} {{family name hatnote|[[He (surname)|Ho]]|Pansy Catalina|Chiu-king|lang=Hong Kong}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Pansy Ho | image = 002A1232 (44771973984).jpg | birth_name = {{lang|yue-HK|何超瓊}}<br>Ho Chiu-king | birth_place = [[Portuguese Macau]] | spouse = Julian Hui (1991{{Ndash}}2000) | parents = [[Stanley Ho]]<br>Lucina Laam | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|8|26|df=y}} | occupation = Casino executive | alma_mater = [[Santa Clara University]] (BA) | relatives = [[Daisy Ho]] (sister)<br>[[Josie Ho]] (sister)<br>[[Lawrence Ho]] (brother) | module = {{Infobox Chinese |child=yes |title=Pansy Ho Chiu-king |t=何超瓊 |s=何超琼 |y=Hòh Chīu-kíng |p=Hé Chāoqióng }} }}
'''Pansy Catalina Ho Chiu-king''' ({{lang-zh|t=何超瓊}}; born 26 August 1962) is a Hong Kong billionaire businesswoman who is the daughter of Macau businessman [[Stanley Ho]], and the managing director of various companies he founded, including [[Shun Tak Holdings]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/business/2011/01/28/family_embroiled_in_feud_over_stanley_ho_gambling_empire.html|title=Family embroiled in feud over Stanley Ho gambling empire | The Star|website=thestar.com|date=28 January 2011}}</ref><ref name="CIB20080312">{{citation|url=http://www.cibmagazine.com.cn/Features/Focus.asp?id=335&the_macao_maven_-_china__39_s_power_women.html|title=The Macao maven - China's Power Women|periodical=China International Business|date=12 March 2008|accessdate=19 March 2010|last=Cottrell|first=Christopher|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707020643/http://www.cibmagazine.com.cn/Features/Focus.asp?id=335&the_macao_maven_-_china__39_s_power_women.html|archivedate=7 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="NYT20080127">{{citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/business/worldbusiness/27iht-move.1.9521757.html|date=27 January 2008|accessdate=19 March 2010|title=Pansy Ho in the spotlight after opening the $1.25 billion MGM Grand in Macao|last=Ruwitch|first=John|periodical=The New York Times}}</ref> Pansy has major interests in two of the six casino licence-holders in [[Macau]]. She was named 25th on [[Forbes]]’ list of Hong Kong’s 50 richest people in 2021 with an estimated fortune of HK$31.8 billion (US$4.1 billion),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hong Kong's Richest 2021|url=https://www.forbes.com/hong-kong-billionaires/|access-date=2021-05-28|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> and the 2nd richest woman in Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Soriano|first=Jianne|date=2021-05-10|title=Forbes List 2021: The 10 Richest Women In The World|url=https://hk.asiatatler.com/life/forbes-2021-richest-women-in-the-world|access-date=2021-05-28|website=Tatler Hong Kong}}</ref>
==Early life== Pansy Ho was born on 26 August 1962, the eldest of five children of Stanley Ho and Lucina Laam King Ying.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pansy Ho Net Worth 2020 {{!}} Annual Income & Revenue|url=https://www.richestdot.com/pansy-ho-net-worth/|date=2020-02-21|website=RichestDot|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-15}}</ref> She has three sisters, one brother and twelve half-siblings. Her second sister [[Daisy Ho|Daisy]] is the Chairman of [[SJM Holdings]], her third sister [[Josie Ho|Josie]] is a singer, and her brother [[Lawrence Ho|Lawrence]] is also a businessman.
She attended an all-girls high school [[Castilleja School]] in [[Palo Alto, California]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidiopenthouse.com/hellotaitai/pansyho.html|title=Hello! TAI TAI .com - PANSY HO|website=www.presidiopenthouse.com}}</ref> and went on to attend [[Santa Clara University]], graduating with a bachelor's degree in marketing and business.<ref name="NYT20080127"/> Ho had also attended St. Paul's Convent School in Causeway Bay (Hong Kong) as part of her Junior and Senior High School.
[[Johnson & Wales University]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], awarded her an honorary doctorate in May 2007.<ref>{{citation|periodical=Providence Journal|url=http://www.projo.com/news/content/J_W16_05-16-07_985L6OL.35604e8.html|date=16 May 2007|accessdate=19 March 2010|title=Johnson & Wales graduation this week}}</ref>
==Career== In 1981, Ho began a brief career in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, appearing with actor [[Danny Chan]], who himself had then just been in the industry for two years, in the [[Television Broadcasts Limited|TVB]] series ''Breakthrough'' (突破).<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.stnn.cc/celeb/200909/t20090903_1115434.html|date=27 September 2009|accessdate=19 March 2010|periodical=Sing Tao|title=赌王家事：强悍的二房子女|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526155816/http://www.stnn.cc/celeb/200909/t20090903_1115434.html|archive-date=26 May 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation|date=20 September 2009|accessdate=19 March 2010|periodical=Ming Pao|url=http://hk.music.yahoo.com/magazine-news-article.html?uid=667596|title=何超瓊憶陳百強長氣愛傾心事|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718134244/http://hk.music.yahoo.com/magazine-news-article.html?uid=667596|archivedate=18 July 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Later, at age 26, she launched her own [[public relations]] firm.<ref name="CIB20080312"/> She also supported her sister [[Josie Ho]]'s efforts to establish her own singing career in the early 1990s over the objection of their father.<ref>{{citation|periodical=The New York Times|date=8 January 2008|accessdate=19 March 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/arts/08iht-ho.1.9076171.html|title=Josie Ho: Tracking a star, from Hong Kong to Sundance|last=Seno|first=Alexandra A.}}</ref>
Ho owns 29% of the [[MGM Grand Macau]], an association which has proven controversial for business partner [[MGM Mirage]]. Nevada's [[Nevada Gaming Control Board|Gaming Control Board]] and [[Nevada Gaming Commission|Gaming Commission]] held extensive hearings in March 2007 on the matter of MGM's partnership with Ho, after which they found that she was a suitable business partner.<ref name="LVRJ20090520">{{citation|title=Gambling Beyond Nevada: New Jersey regulators say MGM partner is unsuitable; daughter of Hong Kong billionaire Stanley Ho owns 50% of MGM Grand Macau|url=http://www.lvrj.com/business/45462797.html|periodical=Las Vegas Review-Journal|last=Stutz|first=Howard|date=20 May 2009|accessdate=19 March 2010}}</ref> However, in March 2010, she was barred from running a gaming business in [[New Jersey]] due to [[New Jersey Casino Control Commission|state gaming regulators']] conclusion, based on Cap 148 Gambling Ordinance (''kui yau yat tiu gui lun''),<ref>{{cite web|title=Hong Kong Ordinances|url=http://www.hklii.hk/eng/hk/legis/ord/148/|accessdate=26 June 2012}}</ref> that her father has "extensive ties" to [[organized crime|organised crime]], and [[MGM Mirage]] was ordered to "disengage itself from any business association" with her.<ref name="LVRJ20090520"/>
After the death of her father on 26 May 2020, she is expected to consolidate control under the Sociedade de Jogos de Macau umbrella.<ref>{{cite news|title=Death of China's King of Gambling Gives Empire Reins to Daughter|newspaper=Bloomberg.com |date=27 May 2020 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/death-of-china-s-king-of-gambling-gives-empire-reins-to-daughter}}</ref>
== Positions held == In Hong Kong, she serves as vice-chairperson and executive committee member of the Hong Kong Federation of Women and vice president of the [[Hong Kong Girl Guides Association]]. She is the founding honorary advisor and board director of [[The University of Hong Kong]] Foundation for Educational Development and Research, court member of [[The Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] and chairman of the development committee of [[The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts]]. She was appointed [[Justice of the Peace]] by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2015.<ref name="Pansy Ho">{{citation|url=https://www.ourhkfoundation.org.hk/en/profile/Ms-Pansy-HO|title=Pansy Ho|work=Our Hong Kong Foundation|access-date=27 April 2026}}</ref>
She is also a standing committee member of Beijing municipal committee of the [[Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference]], standing committee member of [[All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce]], and vice president of China Chamber of Tourism.<ref name="Pansy Ho"/>
Ho serves as chairwoman of the French Macao Business Association.<ref name="FrenchConsulate">{{citation|url=http://www.consulfrance-hongkong.org/spip.php?article2964|date=14 April 2009|accessdate=19 March 2010|title=Pansy Ho, Knight of L'Ordre National du Mérite|publisher=Consulate-General of France|location=Hong Kong|archive-date=1 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001093824/http://www.consulfrance-hongkong.org/spip.php?article2964|url-status=dead}}</ref> In April 2009, she was named ''Chevalier de l'[[Ordre national du Mérite]]'' in a ceremony at the French consulate-general of Hong Kong.<ref name="FrenchConsulate"/> She is also a committee member of [[United Nations Development Programme]] – Peace & Development Foundation, executive committee member of [[World Travel and Tourism Council]] and was appointed the first ambassador for the [[Louvre]] in China in 2013.<ref name="Pansy Ho"/>
==Personal life== Ho married Julian Hui, son of shipping magnate Hui Sai-fun, in 1991. They divorced in 2000.<ref name="TheStar20070902">{{citation|url=http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/2/movies/18710010&sec=movies|periodical=The Star|date=2 September 2007|accessdate=19 March 2010|title=Michelle marries Julian}}</ref> Late in their marriage, both began seeking other relationships; Ho entered into a relationship with Gilbert Yeung, the son of her father's hospitality and entertainment industry competitor, [[Albert Yeung]]. However, Gilbert Yeung's arrest for drug possession in August 2000 at Ho's birthday party focused unwanted media attention on Ho and her relationship with him; Ho's father also made comments in interviews threatening to disown her if she married him. This led to the end of Ho's relationship with Yeung, and also the public announcement that she and Hui would be seeking a divorce.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0915/as.people.html|periodical=CNN AsiaWeek|date=15 September 2000|accessdate=19 March 2010|title=A Split in the Family}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/2002-02-04/72037.html|date=4 February 2002|accessdate=19 March 2010|title=杨其龙与两女友何超琼 MaggieQ锵锵三人行|periodical=Sina News}}</ref>
Ho's ties to Chinese organised crime have also been reported by the [[New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement]], citing a U.S. Senate committee and several government agencies, when the state investigated her ties to American casino operator [[MGM Mirage]].<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/17/business/AP-US-MGM-Mirage-Pansy-Ho.html|title=N.J. Says Casino Magnate Has Mob Ties in China|work=The New York Times|archive-date=20 July 2022|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720165405/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/17/business/AP-US-MGM-Mirage-Pansy-Ho.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ho's father, Stanley Ho, was also named by the [[Government of Canada|Canadian Government]], citing the [[Manila Standard Today|''Manila Standard'']] newspaper, as having a link to the Kung Lok Triad (Chinese mafia) and as being linked to "several illegal activities"<ref name="Asian Organized Crime in Canada">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/AsianOrgCrime_Canada.pdf |title=Organized Crime and Terrorist Activity in Canada |website=[[Library of Congress]] |date= |accessdate=2020-05-26}}</ref> during the period 1999–2002.
In 2018, she spent HK$900 million on a property in one of Hong Kong's most exclusive neighbourhoods, [[Victoria Peak|The Peak]], then Asia's second-highest price for a residential property.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://hk.asiatatler.com/society/pansy-ho-hong-kong-peak-mansion|title=Pansy Ho Snaps Up Hong Kong Peak Mansion For A Cool HK$900 Million}}</ref>
In Aug 2020, Ho lodged a caveat over her father’s estate at the Probate Registry in Hong Kong after her sister and cousin to register an interest in the handling of her father's will.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3096542/pansy-ho-daughter-stanley-ho-becomes-third-family-member|title=Pansy Ho, daughter of Stanley Ho, becomes third family member to make court filing over estate of late 'King of Gambling|website=South China Morning Post|date=7 Aug 2020}}</ref>
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