Mark Twain once said it’s a tragedy if a sex scandal happens to me, and Wednesday if it happens to a politician. Or something like that.

Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger also said that hot chicks will totally sleep with older guys because they like it. Or something like that.

Proving both points is this girl, who looks like she’s posing for a Myspace photo, Lu Jiali. Never heard of her? Neither have I — proving once again that you’re nobody unless you’re famous in the US, even when it comes to sex scandals.

Allegedly, Ms. Lu was improperly involved with the former director of Shanghai’s social security administration. She either bribed officials directly with sex or organized sexual bribery — allegedly. She also has a thing for adult industry bloggers who specialize in Asian porn. Allegedly.

Other players in Shanghai’s privileged class rumored to have been open to a little Lu Jiali sugar are the director of its nuclear power company, the head of a major investment company, the electric company chairman, communist party officials and… the state statistics bureau director.

Yeah, I’m as lost about the the state statistics bureau director as you are. Or maybe that was just a “pity bribe.”

She’s also reported to have fled the country in 2006. Which is smart, seeing as how the Chinese government has the sort of sense of humor that sends a bill to the parents of an executed convict for the bullets used in the firing squad. Fun guys, really.

But these high muckety-mucks needn’t worry about public outrage over their (alleged) hot chick banging — a poll found 55 percent of Chinese would break the law for Ms. Lu if they were in the government and said “Hell, have you looked at this girl? Wouldn’t you?”

55% of Netizens would break the law for Lu Jiali

Photo of Shanghai Professional Sex Briber Lu Jia-li

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