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Sex for cash? Actor denies Bo link-up

Zhang Ziyi denies prostituting herself to Bo Xilai

Actress Zhang Ziyi has reacted angrily to reports that she slept with disgraced Chinese leader Bo Xilai for money. Zhang, who has featured in films like 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon', asked her critics to verify 'the character of their mothers'' before accusing her.

The statement, the second since she first denied the accusation five months back, came a day after Bo was expelled from the Communist Party for corruption and improper sexual liaisons. Bo is expected to be prosecuted for several charges including misuse of power and illicit sex for money.

"To those who are still asking me if I was involved, I told you five months ago in a clear-cut manner that I was not. Today I will give you a more straightforward answer: Go home and ask your mom if she was there. If she was, then so was I," tweeted Zhang, whose new film 'Dangerous Liaisons', released in China last Thursday, is ironically about a sex scandal.

Zhang said her self-restraint has been badly shaken because "people were gossiping about it" five months after she refuted it. "At this time, even the most self-restraint and best mannered people cannot afford to tolerate these people who help spread rumours," she said in another tweet.

The Beijing-born actress, who lives in Hong Kong, is fighting the city's Apple Daily and the US-based China Free Press, which published reports saying she had sexual relationships with a number of high-ranking Chinese officials including Bo in exchange for roughly $ 100 million over the last 10 years.

As rumours continued to make rounds during the long interrogation of Bo, Zhang said in a statement, "This time, we are telling those rumour-spinners that we will respond. We will prove our side o! f the st ory and we'll seek legal justice. We will find you in the darkest corner and go after you."