: During her captivity, the abductors forced her to strip and took topless photographs of her.
Filmmaker Wong Jing alleged in an online program that the original target of the 1990 kidnapping was not Lau, but Miss Hong Kong runner-up Elizabeth Lee. He claimed the thugs lost track of Lee and snatched Lau instead when they encountered her vehicle. Current Relationship (January 2026):
: The kidnapping was orchestrated by triad members as punishment after Lau reportedly refused a film role offered by a boss with secret society links.