Details Emerge on Night Chinese Billionaire Was Accused of Rape in Minnesota

Details Emerge on Night Chinese Billionaire Was Accused of Rape in Minnesota
JD.com founder Richard Liu attends a business forum in Hong Kong, China June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo/File Photo
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MINNEAPOLIS/NEW YORK-With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student sent a WeChat message to a friend in the middle of the night. She wrote that Liu had forced her to have sex with him.

“I was not willing,” she wrote in Chinese on the messaging application around 2 a.m. on August 31. “Tomorrow I will think of a way to escape,” she wrote, as she begged the friend not to call police.