A married Chinese tycoon who could no longer afford to support his five mistresses during the credit crunch held a contest to decide which one to keep.
But when one of the women was eliminated because of her looks, she decided to take revenge - and drove her former lover and her four competitors off a cliff.
She was killed in the crash, while the man and four other women were hospitalised, according to the Shanghai Daily.
At first, officials believed the car crash was an accident.
Then details of the bizarre contest emerged in a letter left by the dead woman, a 29-year-old former waitress named only as Yu.The woman met the entrepreneur, surnamed Fan, at the restaurant where she worked in the coastal city of Qingdao in 2000 and became his lover.
Fan later introduced her to the four other mistresses - two of his employees and two former clients - with all given a £500 monthly allowance and rent-free apartment, the report said.
However, when Fan's business ran into tough times, he decided to lay off all but one woman.
He hired an instructor from a modelling agency to run a private contest where the women were judged on beauty, singing ability and capacity to drink alcohol held at a hotel in May.
The cash-strapped businessman did not tell the women about his intentions.
Yu was eliminated in the first-round beauty competition and a woman surnamed Liu eventually won after dominating the drinking round, the report said.
When Fan told Yu she was dismissed and that he was selling her apartment, she took matters into her own hands.
She convinced the group to go on a sightseeing tour with her before returning to her home province - then drove them all off a remote mountain road.
The story does have a somewhat happy ending:
The other four mistresses left him - as did his wife once she learned of his affairs.
That should ease his budget a bit.
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