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Thursday, 08 September 2011 13:41

What motivated Annabel Chong's most infamous act?

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What motivated Annabel Chong's most infamous act?

Elaine Ee-Meyers speaks to author Gerrie Lim on his book on Singaporean, former porn star Grace Quek, aka Annabel Chong. The following article was first written for and published on Time Out.

Back in the early 1990s, a bright, 22-year-old upper middle-class Singaporean Chinese woman, well on the fast track to success, did the unthinkable. Having already dropped out of law school in London and moved to Los Angeles to enrol in a gender studies course at the University of Southern California, Grace Quek made a bold move unprecedented for someone of her pedigree – she became a porn star. And so Annabel Chong was born.

In 1995, Chong initiated and starred in what was then the world’s biggest gangbang, where she engaged in 251 sex acts with 70 men in under ten hours. Two years later news of the romp broke in Singapore’s The New Paper, and Chong became a local outlier – equal parts rebel, whore, stud, heroine, ultra-feminist, desperado and victim, depending on your own moral compass. She officially retired from porn stardom in 2003, but for many, even beyond her home nation, there remains a fascination in her antics.

Now author Gerrie Lim has picked up the mantle with Singapore Rebel: Searching for Annabel. "Her gangbang had become an urban legend or mythological thing, and I was really surprised that after so long there was still interest in her," says Lim of the incentive behind his latest book. "She doesn’t even think about it anymore, but other people do."

Read the full article on Time Out.

 


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Elaine Ee

Elaine Ee

Elaine Ee has been a writer and editor for 15 years. She has written extensively for books, magazines, websites and exhibitions on a wide range of topics: the arts, personalities, food, travel, heritage and social issues, and was formerly Managing Editor of I-S Magazine. She is also the author of five books. She currently freelances for a variety of publications, contributing regularly to cnngo.com and Time Out Singapore, and when she is not writing spends time with her four kids, practices Bikram yoga and makes it a point to keep trying something new.

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