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SINGAPORE - Businessman Ben Goi, son of Popiah King Sam Goi, died of a heart attack in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday morning (Feb 3). He was 43.

His body was brought back to Singapore on Sunday night, Channel 8 reported on Monday.

The Straits Times understands that he will be cremated at Mandai Crematorium on Thursday morning.

Mr Ben Goi married Malaysian-born former TV actress Tracy Lee in 2017, which was widely covered in the media.

Among other roles, he was chief operating officer of Tee Yih Jia, a food manufacturing business his father, Mr Sam Goi, expanded and is most famous for its popiah, or spring rolls, skin. 

Singapore artistes, including Terence Cao, Chew Chor Meng and Zhu Houren, were seen at Mr Ben Goi's wake, which is being held at his house in Bukit Timah. They declined to speak to reporters.

Mr Goi married Malaysian-born former TV actress Tracy Lee in 2017.

Ms Lee, 33, a former Mediacorp Star Search contestant, announced last May that she had given birth to their first child, a son.

In an Instagram post announcing her son's birth, Ms Lee wrote in Chinese: "I love you, my precious, I will love you and your father just as much... I don't ask for much, just that you grow up happily and healthily, and I will have no regrets."

 

Their wedding dinner at the Shangri-La Hotel in September 2017 made headlines, with guests including celebrities and VIPs such as former Singapore president Tony Tan Keng Yam and his wife, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen.

Ms Lee acted in several Mediacorp productions but left showbiz after she chose not to renew her contract in 2015.

In a 2017 interview with local magazine 8Days, she said that she met her husband through mutual friends in 2010, but the couple only started dating in 2016.

Mr Sam Goi, a father of four, was no. 14 on Forbes Singapore’s 50 Richest 2018 list with an estimated fortune of US$1.8 billion.

He had acquired Tee Yih Jia, then a small pastry factory, in 1977 and used his engineering background to design an automated system to transform the company’s operations.

He is also executive chairman of listed property developer GSH Corp. 

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