Mystery Around Disappearance of Chinese Star Fan Bingbing

Mystery Around Disappearance of Chinese Star Fan Bingbing
The management office of actor Fan Bingbing is seen in Beijing, on Sept. 22, 2018. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein
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BEIJING—X-Men star Fan Bingbing’s Beijing management office is dark and abandoned. Her birthday passed almost unremarked in China’s hyper-adrenalized social media environment.

For one of China’s best known stars and a rising Hollywood actress, Fan’s vanishing is stunning, coming amid vague allegations of tax fraud and possibly other infractions that could have put her at odds with Chinese authorities.