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When Mayers arrived for court around 9:45 a.m., he was flanked by his usual entourage and mobbed by media, but his paramour was nowhere in sight.

On their departure, hundreds of fans mobbed their limousine.

"He was used to being mobbed by the fans," Richardson said.

So great is his appeal, he can barely walk down the street without getting mobbed by fans.

“I was being mobbed on the street, and every family had a calendar with my face on it,” she says of the film’s reception in China when she was just 18.