EFFORTPOST Alice Guo Part III: Her true identity revealed!

When I left off on the story of Alice Guo, we had only gotten to nearly the end of May. I've been slacking off and let the scandal continue unfolding faster than I'm writing about it.

At this point everyone knows that Alice is lying about everything, including who she is and who her parents are. The only thing we can be pretty sure of that she's really Chinese. In late May finally we put a name to that adorable face.

She's actually pretty cute if you get a good picture of her. Either that or I've been working on this too long.

The senators begin asking her about someone named Lin Wen Yi. Alice denies that that is her mother, insisting her real mother is a Filipina named Amelia Leal. This is crucial because her claim to Filipino citizenship rests on her mother being a citizen. She explains that Lin Wen Yi is just her father's current girlfriend who also is involved in at least 7 corporations run by the Guos. At the time they were founded several years ago, she is listed as living with Alice and her father in Valenzuela City in Metro Manila. The only problem with Guo's story is that there is no evidence of her mother Amelia Leal being born, married, dying or just ever existing in general. She can't even produce an obviously forged birth certificate like she did for herself.

By now the senators are pretty sure that Lin Wen Yi is her mother so they keep pulling on this thread, and make quite a curious discovery a couple weeks later. A Special Investor's Resident Visa was issued to Lin Wen Yi and her family, including her daughter Guo Hua Ping. They entered the country January 12, 2003. The daughter was 12 years old at the time, which would make her 33 now. The coincidences just keep piling up. Guo Hua Ping's passport photo happens to look just like a 12-year old Alice Guo. They've even got the same fingerprints.

We finally got you.

Digging deeper into the family we get more bizarre half-assed attempts at deception. She insists she's an only child and doesn't know Sheila and Seimen Guo, until records turn up showing she traveled overseas with them at least 3 times, they're involved in all the family's corporations, and they're listed on those forms living at the same address. Now she explains that those are her half-brothers. She was the lovechild of her father and the maid Amelia Leal. These are her father's other kids. She just lied to congress because she figured they wouldn't want to be in the spotlight. The birth certificates of the half brothers are dug up and they list their mother as Amelia Leal, just like Alice's. Wait, wtf, so they aren't really half brothers? Why would she make up that whole story?

Birth certificates of her and her brothers. Can you believe these morons named their kid Semen?

Business records showing the family living together.

Records of another Alice Leal Guo in Tarlac born on July 12, 1986 turned up, but the photo is of an entirely different person. I don't even know what to make of this. Did she steal the identity of a real person but half-butt it and screw everything up?

Her story about how she was educated has some holes in it too. She claimed that she was homeschooled, taught by the mysterious character known only as Rubilyn and later by the pig farmers. It turns out she went to Grace Christian High School through grades 1-3. This is apparently the only time in her life where the documents are actually legit, listing her true parents and including her Chinese birth certificate.

The one thing that apparently turned out to be true is she really was a pig farmer after all.

The Truth

As far as I can piece all this together what really happened was:

The Guo family (father Jian Zhong Guo, mother Lin Wen Yi, and children) get an investor visa and move to the Philippines in 2003. At first they live in Valenzuela City, Metro Manila. At some point they move to Tarlac. They operate various businesses including a pig farm, probably fronts for organized crime. Their daughter Guo Hua Ping learns Tagalog (but not the language of Tarlac province), so they decide to pass her off as native born. An incredibly half-assed attempt is made to create the fake identity Alice Leal Guo for her. Everything was going fine until the giant compound full of slave laborers was raided and suddenly people started to poking into her life. The McLaren supercar wasn't a great move for someone trying to lay low either.

At this point I think I've done a pretty thorough job writing about her colorful lies. Most of this stuff came out in the Senate investigation around late May. She stopped showing up at the hearings in June. Next time I'll catch up to the present day and cover what's going on right now in efforts to bring her to justice.