Last year on March 31, in a luxury mansion on Long Island, New York, Chinese billionaire couple Fan Peixuan and Zhuang Juanjuan mysteriously disappeared, now becoming an unresolved and puzzling case. The most heartbreaking and bizarre aspect is that, due to the parents' sudden disappearance after applying for citizenship, their two sons' legal status in the United States has been completely invalidated, and after returning to China for family visits, they were refused entry, even deprived of the qualification to handle family assets.

In November 2023, the couple's luxury mansion on Long Island, purchased entirely with a cash payment of $3.8 million (about 26 million RMB), has now been petitioned by their lawyer to the court for "temporary custody." The court has appointed a third-party professional manager responsible for managing the property and preventing asset loss.
In addition, $2.8 million in the couple's bank accounts was stolen. Currently, one suspect has been arrested and confessed, while another is at large. However, authorities have explicitly clarified that this theft is not directly related to the couple's disappearance; it was purely an opportunistic crime.
In the past, when Chinese wealthy individuals immigrated to the United States, their wealth was often "harvested" over one or two generations—through inheritance