Man sues ‘sugar baby’ over sex scammer warning

A Melbourne property developer is suing his “sugar baby” after she allegedly warned others online that he was a sexual predator after their love went sour.

Jessie Qin allegedly warned others Barry Wang was a “rampant sex scammer”. Source: Instagram

A Melbourne property developer is suing his “sugar baby” after she allegedly warned others online he was a “rampant sex scammer” and “demon dressed up as an angel” when their romance died.

Barry Wang, 40, has demanded his ex-lover, Jessie Qin, cough up $350,000 in compensation for her WeChat posts where she portrays him as a sexual predator and expert pick-up artist who was immoral, manipulative and played mind games with women.

He also wants her to retract the posts and make a public apology.

But in a tit-for-tat defamation trial that kicked off in Victoria’s County Court this week, Ms Qin says she has done nothing wrong.

“I’m telling the truth, not like making up stories,” she said.

“If he thinks that he suffered harm, I think I suffered more harms than him.”

Ms Qin, a real estate agent, says Mr Wang could not be defamed as he is “not a famous or popular person in Melbourne” and that the posts were in Chinese on “the gossip village” forum in which “not many people pay attention to”.

She also claimed in one post on the WeChat group that she had found other women who had been duped into falling in love with Mr Wang.

“From acquaintance, to like, to passionate love, to abandonment, everything experienced from the beginning to the end, is the scam he set up to play and use women,” Ms Qin said.

Barry Wang is suing his former lover for defamation.

Jessie Qin. Source: Instagram

“We have compared the scripts throughout the process. What he has said to each girl, what he has done, are more or less the same.

“They are from the same script! Every girl scammed is merely a different main actress in the same scam.”

She said she wished to “expose” Mr Wang “and show everyone the harm done”.

But Mr Wang has painted Ms Qin as a jilted lover who was scamming him for Australian permanent residency, showing the court messages where she had asked him to lie about them living together so she could get a cohabitation certificate.

“I am really not able to do it,” Mr Wang had responded to her requests.

The court heard the pair met in 2018 on the dating website, Seeking Arrangements, which promotes itself as providing a platform for sugar babies “to look for the perfect sugar daddy in Melbourne”.

Referring to their Zodiac signs, Ms Qin said the businessman had told her that “snake matches with chicken and they will have good life together”.

“He packaged himself up as a mature and steady, career-minded, family-oriented one-in-a-thousand good man., down to earth in his words and sincere in his attitude,” she wrote.

“He pretended to be enamoured, loving mankind and animals, and peaceful.

“In fact he is a scheming boy, good at mind games, and having dubious relationships with several girls behind your back, always claiming that he was single.”

The posts came after their relationship soured in 2020.

The civil trial, before Judge Julie Clayton, continues.