The wife once threw a cup at her husband; he broke into the family home with a hammer after being kicked out and threatened to strangle his teenage daughter
In some ways, the couple represented the epitome of success. A few years after arriving in Canada from China, they founded steel companies back in Guangzhou now worth over $70 million, sunk millions into a charitable trust and funded a lavish lifestyle.
The wife once threw a cup at her husband, the cut needing stitches to fix; he broke into the family home with a hammer after being kicked out, later trashed their apartment in China with an axe and threatened to strangle his teenage daughter. Milman said he is not without sympathy for Y.Z. He felt “sincere and heartfelt” pain at becoming estranged from his daughters, and his “harassment” of them was often a genuine if misguided effort to express his feelings.
Y.Z. — an engineer at a steel company — and his wife A.C. — a French-literature graduate — met in China but moved to Canada in 1997 along with his daughter, M.Z., from a previous marriage, eventually becoming Canadian citizens. He started a steel-wool manufacturing plant in the southern-China city of Guangzhou in 2001 and it rapidly became a success, allowing the family to move into a home in Vancouver’s posh Shaughnessy neighbourhood. But there were already tensions, over M.Z.
At the family business, a quarrel led to Y.Z. punching his wife, which in turn prompted her cousin, a “burly individual,” to chase him into the company cafeteria. The cousin tackled the husband and “A.C. proceeded to slap him in front of a number of astonished employees,” said the judge. The husband’s attempts to win back A.C. included buying her a diamond ring valued at $940,000, but it was to no avail.
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