According to QQthe charity activities of artists have long been a controversial topic. The amount of money and the way of charity always bring many problems, especially many artists polish their names through charity activities. At the same time, there are also many stars whose reputation is affected by charity such as Duong Mich, Zhang Ziyi, Jet Li or Jackie Chan.
In China, Jackie Chan is known as the “king of charity”. The actor established a charity fund bearing his name early on and has also carried out many useful activities, receiving praise from the public. In 1988, he founded the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation to support young people in Hong Kong to overcome difficult circumstances. After many years of operation, the fund began to expand its scope to many different areas such as medical care, helping victims of disasters… However, there was also a period when Jackie Chan's name was tarnished by consecutive charity scandals.
Jackie Chan has many charitable activities.
Specifically, in 2009, Jackie Chan produced and starred in the movie Great Soldier and Little General. When visiting a school that collapsed due to the earthquake in Sichuan, the actor expressed his sympathy and promised to use all the money earned from the film to rebuild the school.
Because of Jackie Chan's promise, many audiences flocked to the theater to watch. Great Soldier and Little General both to enjoy art and to support meaningful charity activities, thanks to which the film earned 153 million NDT (529 billion VND). However, nearly a year later, the school's representative publicly denounced that he had never received the donation from the famous martial arts star. Jackie Chan's side later denied that they had yet to recover any profits from the film. However, the incident seriously damaged Jackie Chan's reputation.
Jackie Chan once declared that he would donate all of his movie revenue to charity, but then “forgot” about it.
Later, the media mentioned Jackie Chan's confessions in an interview program. The actor shared that when he first started doing charity work, he was not sincere but just wanted to be a good person. His manager advised Jackie Chan to accept being a goodwill ambassador for some organizations to gain fame and polish his name. Not only that, when donating, Jackie Chan only contributed a small amount, but because of his own arrogance, Jackie Chan announced that he had contributed up to 2 million NDT (more than 7 billion VND).
“When I heard people praising me, I felt very ashamed, because at that time I didn't want to do charity. My manager told me to donate less, so later I felt like I was deceiving everyone,” he said.
Besides, according to QQlater, Jackie Chan often held parties to call for charity from benefactors and artist friends. QQ believes that this is a fraudulent act. “The 10 million yuan he donated to the Sichuan victims was everyone's money, but he took all the credit.” QQ write.
Jackie Chan often holds parties to raise funds for charity.
According to QQmany veteran stars in the Chinese entertainment industry, take advantage of charity events, organize charity nights just to polish their names, raise their status. The exposed charity tricks make the public have a more negative view of the artist community.
In 2012, a blogger came forward to report in detail and denounce the lack of transparency in the charity fund related to Jackie Chan. Specifically, the China Children's Youth Charity Fund only used less than 1 million yuan (equivalent to 3.5 billion VND) for its operations, while the remaining 18 million (62 billion VND) was unexpectedly transferred to Jackie Chan's fund.
This is an illegal act, with the above money transfer, Jackie Chan's fund will receive 10% as “management fee”. This act of embezzlement affects Jackie Chan's reputation as “charity king”. Although Jackie Chan denies it, the public still doubts the transparency of the fund.
Jackie Chan's reputation affected by charity fraud
Jackie Chan is not only controversial for his lack of transparency in charity and his failure to pay back debts. He is also a notorious celebrity. In his autobiography, the actor admitted that in his youth he was a spendthrift, often threw parties and had affairs with prostitutes.
The biggest scandal in Jackie Chan's life was the abandonment of his lover, Ngo Y Loi, and his daughter, Ngo Trac Lam. He lived a life of luxury with assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but Jackie Chan did not acknowledge his daughter, leaving her to wander and live in harsh conditions in Hong Kong or Canada.
That's why, in 2023, when Jackie Chan makes the movie Dragon Horse Spirittalking about the close relationship between father and daughter, the audience felt ironic. Many people commented: “In real life, he abandoned his child, but on screen, he plays a good father.”
Currently, in China, the name Jackie Chan no longer attracts audiences. Recent works such as Hidden Strike, Detective Pu Songling, The Outsider, The Secret Seal of the Dragon, The Spirit of Dragon Horse all failed. The actor admitted to losing more than $260 million in 6 years. Not only that, in July, the project Legend Jackie Chan's movie was released in theaters but failed to sell tickets, incurring a loss of more than 330 million NDT (about more than 1,100 billion VND).
