Samsung has been forced to issue an official denial after a Beverly Hills resident, caught with 230 kilos of marijuana on her Gulfstream jet claimed she was part of the Korean family that own Samsung.
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Lisette Lee was caught aboard a chartered jet loaded with 23 bales of marijuana, worth an estimated US $600,000. The official Samsung statement said “Contrary to some media reports, Lisette Lee is not an heiress of Samsung Electronics and is not a member of Samsung’s Lee family.
She is now facing up to 40 years in prison and a US $2 million fine.
When she was initially detained Lisette pleaded “heiress,” pointing to her last name, which is the same as the Korean family that owns Samsung Electronics.
According to Hollywood gossip sites, Lisette Lee Morita has been telling the Samsung story for years. At a 2007 charity dinner where Lisette was photographed beside L.A. wine “guru” Christian Navarro, the Samsung story was already in full force, say party-goers.
The Gawker web site in the US said that one of Lisette’s movie industry friends wrote in to say he couldn’t believe she was lying. “Her mother is the sister of renowned Samsung egomaniac and criminal, Lee Kun-hee”, he said, “and her father is related to Sony founder Akio Morita”.
Lisette’s friend thinks Mrs. Lee lived in a “huge estate in Beverly Park,” home to such filthy rich folks as Denzel Washington and Sylvester Stallone. So is Samsung lying, or is Lisette? They wrote.
