Edison Chen, the marginally talented Grudge 2 star embroiled in a sex scandal dominating the news in the Far East, has bigger problems than his slumping career. According to a report in today's New York Post, Chen is currently hiding out in the United States because a contract was put on his head in Hong Kong this past weekend.

It seems one of the many girls Chen photographed in compromising positions, a 19-year-old student studying in Boston named Vincy Yeung, happens to have a mob-connected tycoon uncle back home who didn't much like the fact that pictures of his niece bathing in the shower are currently just a few Internet clicks away.

The uncle in question, 61-year-old Albert Yeung, is the founder of EEG, a hugely influential entertainment consortium involved in everything from DVD wholesaling to the management of Cantonese pop stars. Yeung was perhaps most famously involved in a payola scandal that rocked Hong Kong's music business in 2003, though his criminal rap sheet is long enough to give the impression that the bounty on Chen's head isn't some idle threat.

Ironically, Yeung himself presided over a tabloid that was shuttered in 2002 after publishing a photograph of a semi-naked actress taken during a 1991 kidnapping.

Vincy Yeung and Chen have been dating since 2004; Chen has even told Hong Kong press that he planned on settling down with her after establishing himself as a legitimate movie star. Good luck with that now!