Singer Jang Yoon-jeong, who is embroiled in a money dispute with her mother and brother, has filed a complaint against an operator of her Internet fan website for allegedly posting slanderous comments about her, police said Monday.

South Incheon-dong Police Station said it recently summoned a website operator for posting malign comments about the singer. Some 29 posts written by the operator were related to Jang’s family.

“I just posted what I heard from Jang’s mother, whom I’ve been acquainted with while operating the fan website,” the accused told the police.

Jang reported the person to the police on May 20 for defamation.

The 33-year-old singer claimed last month that her mother and her brother had squandered all of her money on a business that is still run by her brother. The family spat intensified after Jang’s estranged family members appeared on TV last week and denied the rumors while accusing the singer of attempting to put her sane mother in a psychiatric hospital.


By Yoon Min-sik
(minsikyoon@heraldcorp.com)