The credit crunch is getting worse, and sometimes you can’t bail out:

A married Chinese tycoon who could no longer afford to support his five mistresses during the credit crunch held a contest to decide which one to keep.
But when one of the women was eliminated because of her looks, she decided to take revenge – and drove her former lover and her four competitors off a cliff.

She died. The other five survived. In case you’re wondering what a Chinese tycoon looks for in his mistress:

He hired an instructor from a modelling agency to run a private contest where the women were judged on beauty, singing ability and capacity to drink alcohol… Yu was eliminated in the first-round beauty competition and a woman surnamed Liu eventually won after dominating the drinking round, the report said.
When Fan told Yu she was dismissed and that he was selling her apartment, she took matters into her own hands.
She convinced the group to go on a sightseeing tour with her before returning to her home province – then drove them all off a remote mountain road.

Since then, the four surviving mistresses and his wife have all left him. So he no longer has that overmanning problem.