HK heart throb Leslie Cheung commits suicide: reports 
HONGKONG -- Hongkong pop star and actor Leslie Cheung leapt to his death from a five-star hotel here on Tuesday, local television stations and radio reported.
Cheung, known locally as Cheung Kwok Wing, plunged to his death from a building in Hongkong's Central District, radio RTHK reported on its Web site. Two Hongkong television stations carried the same report.
Police declined to provide a full identity but said a man surnamed Cheung, whose given name included 'Wing,' leapt from a hotel room in the Mandarin Oriental, a luxury property in Hongkong's Central district.
Cheung was certified dead at 7:06 pm after arriving at Queen Mary Hospital, police said.
A suicide note was found on the body, police spokesman Catherine Chiu said.
The 46-year-old Cheung rose to fame as a singer in the 1980s with a bad-boy image and followed up with a distinguished film career.
One of few Chinese stars to portray openly gay characters, Cheung starred in the Oscar-nominated Farewell My Concubine, in which he portrayed a homosexual Chinese opera singer who falls in love with a fellow performer.
Cheung also played a Hongkong man who moved to Argentina with his male lover in Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together.
He also appeared in other Wong films, including Days of Being Wild and Ashes of Time.
Mandarin Oriental confirmed a body was found in front of the hotel early on Tuesday evening but declined further comment.
'The matter is currently in the hands of the police,' general manager Peter Lowe told The Associated Press by phone. -- AP
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