Like a Hong Kong Anna Delvey: the rise and fall of socialite Azura

  • Beautiful Azura Luna Mangunhardjono cut a swathe through Hong Kong with tales of her royal ancestry, vast wealth and charity work
  • But as the stories unravel and debts pile up, her ex-lovers and former friends are bringing her to account. It's a story echoed in Netflix's Inventing Anna

Hong Kong socialite Azura Luna Mangunhardjono.

On October 15, 2018, 46-year-old tech expert Jason, from New York, flew to Hong Kong on a week-long business trip. He checked into a room at the Four Seasons, in Central, and when a lunch appointment was cancelled, he happily nursed an afternoon drink at the hotel’s Pool Bar.

“Then I looked up,” he recalls, “and this incredible, striking woman walked in.”

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