Justin Sun Sues Ex-Girlfriend After AI Advised Against $50M Payment

TRON founder Justin Sun has taken his breakup with Chinese actress Jing Tian to court. The filing, made public this week, seeks to recover roughly $4.5 million (30 million yuan) that Sun says he wired to Jing Tian's parents as a bride price. The lawsuit landed alongside a sprawling personal essay Sun posted on X, which drew more than 33 million views in a day.

Sun wrote that he met Jing Tian in Hong Kong and dated her through late 2025. He proposed on a Maldives island in January and then transferred the bride price. By late February the pair moved to California. Jing Tian checked into a Laguna Beach resort ahead of an egg retrieval procedure as part of a surrogacy plan, Sun said.

The Tron founder wrote that she phoned him on the eighth day and named a price of $50 million before proceeding. He ran his cash position through Claude AI, was told to refuse, and went silent. She hung up and left, he said. Together with the bride price his lawyers are now chasing, that figure puts the dispute at $54.5 million.

“If I had given her the money that day, would she have stayed?” Sun wrote on X.

He later told Hong Kong outlet The Standard that he still cannot say whether the machine's judgment, or his own, was right. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) also weighed in. “Hard promotion is fair,” Zhao wrote. “Wrecking a career is not.” CZ drew a line between marketing and personal damage, framing Sun's essay as a marketing exercise rather than a confession.

Jing Tian, 38, has fired back without directly addressing Sun's individual claims. “I will never sell my love for money,” she wrote on Weibo, adding that she believes the courts will ultimately establish the truth. Her studio similarly said the dispute should be handled through legal proceedings.

The case is pending before a court in the United States; no hearing has been scheduled. Sun continues to operate TRON and is expected to speak at a blockchain conference next month.