The offered "dowry" of $60 million has been doubled by a Hong Kong billionaire playboy to any man who could turn his homosexual daughter straight, UK MailOnline reported.
After thousands of eligible bachelors failed to convince his daughter Gigi to marry any of them, Cecil Chao raised the reward to $120 million.
Despite getting married to her long-term partner Sean Eav two years ago, the 77-year-old property magnate insists that 34-year-old Gigi is "still single."
Even though 20,000 men registered their interest in taking up the quest, Gigi is still not in a straight marriage, Chao told a Malaysian newspaper.
According to UK MailOnline, he said that he did not want to interfere with his daughter's private life, but that he wanted her to have "a good marriage and children."
Gigi said that although her wife had been left "distraught" by her father's interview, she found it easier to ignore - even offering to comply with the terms, as long as the man in question donated a large part of the money to charity, and did not mind that she is already married, UK MailOnline reported.
"I don't think my dad's offering of any amount of money would be able to attract a man I would find attractive," she told South China Morning Post. "Alternatively, I would be happy to befriend any man willing to donate huge amounts of money to my charity Faith in Love, provided they don't mind that I already have a wife. Third and lastly, thank you Daddy, I love you too."
"I'm not saying that she's not okay to be gay," Cecil told ABC News 20/20 in October 2012. "I mean it's her own choice and her own tendency, but she should make sure she knows what she wants. Maybe what she wants today is different [than] what she wants in the future."
In early 2012, Gigi married her long-term partner Sean in a church ceremony. But her father only announced the million HKD fortune to any potential male suitor able to walk Gigi down the aisle after the Hong Kong tabloids printed news of their union, UK MailOnline reported.
Although Cecil was "surprised and unpleasantly shocked" about Gigi's wedding, he urged her not to make it public, Gigi said.
The offers came pouring in from around the world as soon as the plea was made public by Cecil.
"War veterans from the U.S., someone from Ethiopia, from Istanbul, South America, Portugal, really just from all over the world," Gigi said. "One American suitor wrote: 'I'm interested in the offer. I am a male person, who also happens to be gay'."
Gigi, an executive director at her father's property development company, part-time pilot, and founder of anti-poverty charity Faith in Love Foundation, has maintained throughout her father's persistent quest that she knows he is only doing it out of love and concern.
"I understand that he loves me, it's just he's from another time and it's difficult for him to understand the plight of the LGBT," Gigi said. "At the office it's business as usual. At family gatherings we hug and dance. And we just agree to disagree on what marriage is and family is."
