Now a family man, Edison Chen has bounced back from career-killing scandals


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Chen’s daughter Alaia was born last year. — Instagram

Edison Chen said many people “washed their hands off me and said they didn’t know me” after intimate photographs of him with Hong Kong actresses such as Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung were leaked in 2008.

A decade later, Chen, 38, who acted in box-office hits Infernal Affairs (2002) and Initial D (2005), is proving that he can bounce back and have the last laugh.

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