Kelly Mi Li Biography
Kelly Mi Li is a Chinese-American investor, producer, and serial entrepreneur. She is well-known for her roles as executive producer and star in Bling Empire on Netflix, executive producer of Michael Shannon’s crime drama Echo Boomers under her production firm Wet Paws Media, and executive producer of Cypher, an FBI decoding series with Sonar Entertainment.
As a committed humanitarian, Kelly has served on the boards of numerous nonprofits, including UNICEF CCI and Prince Harry’s Well Child.
Mi Li Age
Kelly is 38 years old as of 13 November 2023. She was born on 13 November 1985 in Kunming, China.
Kelly Mi Li Ex-husband
Kelly’s spouse, Lin Miao, is actually from China, but she didn’t identify him on the show. Kelly talked about living a luxury lifestyle with her spouse and spending $400,000 a month on her American Express card in the first episode of Bling Empire. However, one day the authorities showed up and took everything away from them.
“I didn’t even know who I was sleeping next to!” she exclaimed, asserting that she was unaware of her husband’s illicit activities. On the other hand, Kelly had to have known what was going on when the money started coming in, according to a defendant in the criminal case against her husband. The courts must have assumed Kelly was uninformed of the crime because she was never prosecuted with any part of it.
Mi Li Boyfriend
She is romantically involved with William Ma, a police officer in San Francisco. On April 9, 2023, just after midnight, the couple welcomed their daughter Mili into the world. She was born on Easter, in the year of the rabbit. On February 25, 2023, Kelly Mi Li and her boyfriend William Ma had a baby shower. It was the couple’s first public appearance together, and about forty people showed up, the majority of them were well-known figures from the entertainment world.
The Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, the venue for the ceremony, was decked out in pink hues throughout. The guests were offered champagne.Additionally, there was a photo wall with clusters of pink, peach, and white balloons that attendees could pose for photos. Katherine Ho gave a performance during the occasion, and there were also games planned for the attendees, like “Find the Guest,” which featured a reward of 14k gold diamond bar earrings.
Mi Li Family
was raised in the little Chinese village of Kunming before moving to Chicago with her family when she was ten years old. At the time, she was illiterate. Due to financial difficulties, her mother reared her daughter alone while her father returned to China in quest of employment.
Kelly Mi Li Ex husband Arrest
Friends of Lin Miao’s worked for a mobile aggregator. Between small businesses looking to promote to clients via text message and phone carriers like AT&T, a mobile aggregator serves as a middleman. Mobile aggregators have access to hundreds of thousands of phone numbers due to the nature of their work.
After paying for the phone numbers that his buddies Michael Pajaczowski and Christopher Goff, who worked as aggregators, had access to, Lin Miao and his partners would text the numbers, often using ludicrous emails to conceal their identities. The SMS purported to offer other services you might sign up for, such horoscopes, weekly trivia facts, and celebrity rumors.
The victims of this scam were unaware that they were immediately signed up for the service and would be charged $9.99 every month after their initial SMS. Many of the recipients of these texts assumed they were spam and either ignored or deleted them. Miao and his accomplices attempted to conceal the monthly fees by giving them names such as “96633IQ16CALL8668611606.” The victim’s phone bill would show a charge that fit that description, and even if they called to stop the transaction, they frequently weren’t given a refund. Lin Miao made almost $50 million by charging $9.99 a month to hundreds of thousands of customers.
Miao and his associates were charged with one count of conspiracy to conduct mail fraud and wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, when the IRS uncovered their scheme. After being detained at Los Angeles International Airport, Miao complied with the authorities and was only required to serve two years of “supervised release.” As Kelly noted, he did experience financial hardship after losing over $10 million in assets, which included his Beverly Hills house, Bentley and Mercedes automobiles, and Tiffany jewelry.Kelly’s shock at learning how her husband had been making millions of dollars is understandable if she was unaware of the phone hoax.
Many people were duped by this fraud back when SMS and texting were not as widely accepted as they are now. It’s understandable why Kelly says she finds it difficult to trust her partners these days.